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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the ICC arrest warrants issued against him and former defence minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday are an “anti-Semitic measure” that breaches “the natural right of democracies to defend themselves against murderous terrorism”.
Mr Netanyahu said the warrants served only to deter Israel “from exercising our natural right to defend ourselves against our enemies”. The US is among an outlying cohort of foreign allies that have criticised the court’s decision.
The ICC confirmed it had issued warrants for the arrest of Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant Thursday. It followed a court filing made by ICC prosecutor Karim Khan, who accused Israel of using starvation as a method of war.
Israeli strikes killed at least 51 people across Lebanon on Thursday. The Lebanese Health Ministry said in the country’s east, air strikes killed 40 people in 10 different towns in Baalbek province. As of Thursday, the Health Ministry had recorded at least 3,583 people killed and 15,244 wounded in Lebanon during the 13-month war between Hezbollah and Israel, with the majority of casualties taking place after Israel’s escalation and ground offensive in late September.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow struck Ukraine with a new type of missile, marking an apparent escalation of the nearly three-year-long war.
Reuters reports Russia fired a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday. The attack was a response to the US and UK allowing Kyiv to strike Russian territory with advanced western weapons.
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Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Kevin Kline, Lesley Manville
Rating: 4/5
UK’s AI plan
- AI ambassadors such as MIT economist Simon Johnson, Monzo cofounder Tom Blomfield and Google DeepMind’s Raia Hadsell
- £10bn AI growth zone in South Wales to create 5,000 jobs
- £100m of government support for startups building AI hardware products
- £250m to train new AI models
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Libya's Gold
UN Panel of Experts found regime secretly sold a fifth of the country's gold reserves.
The panel’s 2017 report followed a trail to West Africa where large sums of cash and gold were hidden by Abdullah Al Senussi, Qaddafi’s former intelligence chief, in 2011.
Cases filled with cash that was said to amount to $560m in 100 dollar notes, that was kept by a group of Libyans in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
A second stash was said to have been held in Accra, Ghana, inside boxes at the local offices of an international human rights organisation based in France.
Desert Warrior
Starring: Anthony Mackie, Aiysha Hart, Ben Kingsley
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Rating: 3/5
