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Now anti-vaxxers turn on Pfizer and Moderna after AstraZeneca’s decision to withdraw Covid jab sparks panic about rare but deadly clotting side effect (and pockets the pharma titan £2.5billion)

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Anti-vaxxers today called for Pfizer and Moderna to urgently withdraw their Covid jabs in the wake of heightened safety fears.

AstraZeneca’s landmark decision to withdraw its lockdown-banishing vaccine from global markets sparked hysteria online about the rival jabs – made using pioneering tech never utilised until the virus crisis spawned.

The UK-based pharmaceutical titan insisted its decision was a commercial one due to demand being slim, with its jab no longer being manufactured. 

Ministers favour superior mRNA jabs, like those

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The Israeli Quotes That the Press Got Wrong

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In late November, the NPR reporter Leila Fadel interviewed the international-law scholar David Crane about a disquieting subject: potential genocide in Gaza. Crane was uniquely qualified to opine on this fraught topic, having served as the founding chief prosecutor for the UN’s Special Court for Sierra Leone, where he indicted the president of Liberia for war crimes. On air, he explained why he did not think Israel’s actions met the criteria.

“If I was charged with investigating and prosecuting genocide,”

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How Putin’s troops are raping and torturing Ukrainian MEN as well as women: Horrors endured by male prisoners are revealed… and it is feared many more victims will be uncovered

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Russian soldiers have raped and tortured men as well as women in Ukraine as a weapon of war to ‘destroy’ the population for generations to come, international activists and lawyers have revealed.

Some Ukrainian men who were detained by Russian soldiers in the Kherson region were raped with sticks while others were tortured with electrical shocks to their genitals, experts say.

The stigma surrounding wartime sexual violence and Ukraine’s conservative society means it can be particularly challenging for male rape

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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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Hamas leaders claim Israel’s proof over who is to blame for Gaza hospital bombing is an ‘outrageous lie’ – despite IDF producing wiretapped call, video of ‘misfiring’ rocket and satellite photos to prove they didn’t launch missile

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Hamas has claimed that Israel’s ‘proof’ over who is to blame for the deadly Gaza hospital bombing is an ‘outrageous lie’ – despite the IDF producing a wiretapped call and video showing a ‘misfiring’ rocket to prove they didn’t cause the blast.

The terror group made the claim hours after Israel shared an audio clip in which two alleged Hamas terrorists can be heard discussing the explosion and confirming the rocket came from Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) – an independent

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UN chief condemns possible Russian war crimes ahead of Zelensky speech to Security Council

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Volodymyr Zelensky has compared Russia to ISIS for their ‘war crimes’ in Bucha during a fiery speech to the Security Council today as he slammed the UN body for failing to protect Ukraine. 

The president said atrocities have been carried out throughout the country, with women raped and killed in front of their families, and people captured and deported to Russia and turned into ‘slaves’ in his blistering address. 

He called out the Security Council for failing to provide any

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Emotional Zelensky says he finds it ‘difficult to talk’ as he surveys carnage at Bucha

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A visibly emotional Volodymyr Zelensky today stood motionless as he surveyed the scene of utter devastation he encountered in the town of Bucha, with dozens of bodies shot at close range laying on the empty streets.

The Ukrainian President appeared overwhelmed at seeing the carnage in the town, admitting he finds ‘it very difficult to talk when you see what they’ve done here’. 

On the streets of Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, the bodies of civilians have been found scattered, many

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Boris Johnson condemns Russia’s ‘despicable attacks’ on Ukrainians in Bucha and Irpin 

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Moscow was accused of genocide last night after retreating Russian forces left behind horrific evidence of rapes, civilian executions and mass graves.

The barbarity of Vladimir Putin’s soldiers was compared to the atrocities of the Nazis and Stalin’s Great Terror as the horrors of Second World War returned to Europe.

Ukrainian prosecutors said they had found 410 bodies in towns near the capital Kyiv. They said some witnesses were too traumatised to speak.

Two mass graves were discovered in Bucha,

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What Biden Must Do to Right the Wrongs of Guantánamo

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Many Americans like to tell themselves a story about the choices the country makes in times of national crisis. We see our country’s policies as a pendulum. We may overreact at first, temporarily sacrificing principles and rights to meet the emergency at hand. But eventually the crisis recedes, and in restoring our commitment to foundational principles and the rule of law, we push the pendulum back toward equilibrium.

This story is comforting; it makes sense of America’s reactions to crises

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