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Putin rakes in extra €1B for his war chest via Bulgaria sanctions loophole – POLITICO

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BRUSSELS — The Kremlin raked in an extra €1 billion for its war effort this year after Russia’s largest private oil firm exploited loopholes in EU sanctions rules — with help from Bulgaria.

Taking advantage of a unique exemption to the EU’s Russian oil ban, Bulgaria allowed millions of barrels of Russian oil to reach a local Russian-owned refinery, which then exported various refined fuels abroad including to EU countries, according to an investigation by the NGO Global Witness, the

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Hamas officials say Israeli strike has hit another refugee camp, ‘massacring’ 15 people – as IDF tanks and troops close in on Gaza City

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Hamas officials today said an Israeli air strike slammed into another refugee camp, ‘massacring’ at least 15 people with dozens more trapped under the rubble.

The large explosion ripped through clusters of homes in the densely packed Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, leaving a deep, debris-littered crater in its wake.

Exhausted Palestinians desperately searched through the rubble of their homes for loved ones, their screams piercing the air as they found the lifeless bodies of their mothers and children.

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Hamas vows to repeat October 7 attacks and bring about the ‘annihilation’ of Israel while cynically saying it ‘did not want to hurt civilians’ as it slaughtered 1,400 people ‘but there were complications on the ground’

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A Hamas leader has issued a chilling warning that the terror group’s October 7 massacre will happen ‘again and again’ until Israel is ‘annihilated’ – vowing that the terrorists will pay any price to achieve their aims.

Ghazi Hamad, deputy foreign minister for Hamas, cynically told a broadcaster that the terrorists ‘did not want to harm civilians’ during their bloody rampage through southern Israel, which saw more than 1,400 Israelis murdered in cold blood.

He said the terror group had

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Israeli woman, 85, whose gesture of peace towards Hamas captors was seen around the world explains why she did it despite being kidnapped and beaten with sticks

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An elderly woman held hostage for 16 days by Hamas terrorists explained that she wished them peace as she was handed to aid workers because ‘they treated us very nicely.’

Chilling footage on Monday evening showed Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, and Nurit Cooper, 79, being handed over to the Red Cross at Gaza’s Rafah crossing by black-clad masked Hamas gunmen. 

‘It’s okay, let’s go… it’s okay, let’s go,’ says a Red Cross Worker sent to collect the two women.

As she’s

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Hamas releases footage showing American mother and daughter, 17, being freed following 13 days in captivity – as relieved father says terrorists ‘treated her nice’ after abducting them from a kibbutz

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An Illinois teenager released on Friday by Hamas after 13 days in captivity is ‘doing very well,’ her father said, with new footage showing the dramatic moment she and her mother were handed over to the Red Cross. 

Natalie Shoshana Raanan, 17, and her mother Judith Tai Raanan, 59, arrived back in Israel late on Friday, the Israeli government confirmed, having left Gaza via an Egyptian-controlled crossing. 

The Raanans walked out of Gaza without obvious visible physical injuries, getting out

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Get to the border NOW! US Embassy tells foreign nationals to get to the Rafah crossing on Gaza-Egypt border to leave as Israeli tanks are lined up and ready to plough into besieged Palestinian enclave after Hamas attacks

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The US Embassy has told foreign nationals to make their way to the Rafah crossing on the Gaza-Egypt border to evacuate as Israeli tanks prepare to plough into the besieged Palestinian enclave. 

The Israeli military on Friday punished Gaza with more airstrikes in retaliation to the despicable terror attacks launched by Hamas on October 7. Tens of thousands of Israeli soldiers are readying themselves for battle as an invasion appears imminent.

In an urgent security alert this morning, the US

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Israel says it will cut ‘the umbilical cord’ with Gaza to create ‘a new security reality’ and block ALL crossings after annihilating Hamas in ground invasion

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Israel said it will cut ‘the umbilical cord’ with Gaza to create ‘a new security reality’ and block all crossings after annihilating Hamas in a ground invasion.

The Israeli military today punished Gaza with airstrikes and authorities inched closer to bringing aid to desperate families and hospitals.

Israel will enforce a buffer zone within the Gaza Strip once the war is over, Israel’s agriculture minister Avi Dichter said on Thursday. 

In comments that seemed to refer to setting up a

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Israel reveals plans for ‘three-phase war’ in Gaza, starting with airstrikes and ground manoeuvres, then moving in to eradicate pockets of resistance and then ceasing Israel’s ‘responsibility for life in the Gaza Strip’

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Israel has revealed it is expecting a ‘three-phase’ war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the first time the country has set out a long-term plan to deal with its bloodiest conflict in decades. 

Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told Israeli lawmakers that the IDF expects to start its three-phase war with airstrikes and ground manoeuvres. 

The Israeli military then plans on moving onto defeating pockets of resistance from Hamas fighters. 

Gallant said that once this has been completed, Israel’s ‘responsibility

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‘USA go to hell’: Scenes of rage spread around the world again as Pro-Palestine protesters take to the streets condemning Biden and Israel ahead of Gaza ground invasion

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Angry anti-Israel protests have erupted across the world today after Hamas leaders demanded thousands of demonstrators take to the streets and target Israeli and US embassies ahead of an imminent ground invasion of Gaza. 

The demonstrations were staged after Friday prayers in Muslim communities across the world – including in Bangladesh, South Korea, Egypt and Iraq – with thousands of protesters condemning Israel’s attacks on Gaza and showing support for the two million Palestinians who are trapped in the war-torn

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Biden flies into Middle East tinderbox: President tells Israel’s PM Netanyahu hospital bloodbath ‘appears to have been done by the other team’ as he lands in Tel Aviv with Gaza ‘spiralling out of control’

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President Joe Biden today said a devastating blast on a Gaza hospital that killed 500 people appears not to have been caused by Israel – but instead ‘by the other team’ referring to Palestinian terrorists.

Biden arrived in Israel today in a desperate bid to prevent the war with Hamas from spiralling into a wider conflict that would engulf the Middle East following the deadly fireball explosion at the hospital.

A huge blast ripped through the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza

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