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For many Palestinian citizens of Israel, judicial battle leaves them out

A plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to limit powers of the Supreme Court sparked huge protests across Israel before it was put on hold last week, but the country's Palestinian citizens have largely remained on the sidelines.

Reuters

France to boost military budget to €413 billion over next seven years

Proposed spending for the French military for the next seven years is projected to hit a record high of €413 billion. The Minister of Defence and the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, says the increase is necessary due to a deterioration in the geopolitical context and to technological changes.

Radio France Internationale

Belarus drops charges against Polish minority activist

A prominent Polish minority activist has been released from custody in Belarus after the authorities dropped criminal charges against her

The Independent UK

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St Petersburg café killing exposes Russia’s security woes

Moscow has blamed Ukrainian security services and supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny for the killing of a prominent Russian ultranationalist blogger in a St Petersburg café. Kyiv and Navalny’s supporters have denied the allegations. But the attack on a figure with close links to the Wagner Group has…

France 24

St Petersburg bomb suspect charged with terrorism over killing of pro-war blogger

Moscow says Darya Trepova acted for Ukraine and handed statuette to Vladlen Tatarsky that later exploded

The Guardian - UK

Up to 1 million people 'disappeared' in Iraq in last half century - UN

Up to 1 million people have been "disappeared" in Iraq during a tumultuous last half century spanning the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein, U.S.-led military occupation and the rise of Islamic State militants, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Ukrainian soldier pleads 'partly guilty' at Russia's first war crime trial

A Ukrainian soldier pleaded "partly guilty" on Tuesday at Russia's first trial for war crimes in connection with its military campaign in Ukraine.

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Polish farmers threaten to ‘ruin’ Zelenskiy visit amid grain dispute

Grain producers say they are being undercut by tariff-free imports from Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

Public executions and torture: ‘The Taliban have reverted to their true nature’

In the latest example of public punishments carried out by the Taliban, two men were publicly humiliated and forced to wear a chador, a full-length hijab traditionally worn by women. But other punishments meted out by the Taliban have been far more violent, including flagellations and public executions. While Afghan…

France 24

Lithuania offers carve-outs to EU sceptics over Russia nuclear sanctions

A new Lithuanian bid to push the European Union to impose sanctions on Russia's nuclear energy industry includes proposed exemptions for Hungary and a two-year period to phase out existing contracts, according to a document seen by Reuters.

Reuters

Putin officer defects and says ‘paranoid’ president lives in a bunker and is terrified of Covid

Gleb Karakulov said he has fled Russia over the war in Ukraine.

The Independent UK

Paranoid Vladimir Putin never uses phone and stays in his bunker, defector says

Federal Guard Service captain Gleb Karakulov, 35, revealed how Russian President Vladimir Putin Putin is paranoid about his personal security, and because he's so scared of being assassinated, he stays "in his bunker"

Daily Mirror

Suspect in attack that killed pro-Putin blogger to face court

Darya Trepova, 26, will appear at a court in Moscow

Evening Standard

Ukraine unveils plan for recaptured Crimea – but West ‘reluctant’ to help

Ukraine unveiled on Sunday a 12-point plan outlining how it would reintegrate Crimea back into the country if it regained the territory militarily. Kyiv has repeatedly said that seizing the peninsula back from Russia is one of its key war aims. But Washington is tacitly sceptical.

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Analysis: Russia's military production, state splurge ease sanctions pain

Rising military production and huge state spending are keeping Russia's industry buzzing along, an analysis of recent data shows, helping soften the economic impact of Western sanctions and allowing Moscow to plough on with its campaign in Ukraine.

The Guardian - UK

Only official civilian victim of UK’s bombing campaign against IS appears not to exist

Contradictions over missions in Syria and Iraq deepens concern over Britain’s ‘perfect’ precision war

Reuters

Ukraine's tech entrepreneurs fight war on a different front

Eugene Nayshtetik and his five co-workers shuttered their company developing medical and biotech startups to join the defense forces days after Russia invaded Ukraine. Within two months, their commanders agreed it would be more useful if they swapped their military gear for computers.

The Guardian - US

Almost half of human rights defenders killed last year were in Colombia

The county was the deadliest for rights activists in 2022, and Latin America and Ukraine together accounted for 80% of the 401 deaths

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Three Syrian regime figures to face trial in France over 2013 arrests, killings

French criminal investigators have called for the trial of three officials of the regime of Syrian President Bachar al-Assad. The three are suspected of involvement in the 2013 detention and subsequent deaths of two Franco-Syrian citizens, Mazzan Dabbagh and his son Patrick.

Asharq Al-Awsat

IRGC Retracts Statements Confirming Death of Leader Kidnapped in Lebanon in 1982

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps retracted its confirmation of the killing of the military attaché, Ahmad Motevaselian, who disappeared in Beirut 41 years ago. IRGC spokesman Ramezan Sharif said they still have no reliable information regarding the condition and fate of Motevaselian and his companions, who were kidnapped in northern…

The Independent UK

Officials: US providing Ukraine $2.6 billion in military aid

Officials say the U.S. will send Ukraine about $500 million in ammunition and equipment and will spend more than $2 billion to buy an array of munitions, radar and other weapons in the future

The Independent UK

Suspect in attack that killed military blogger to face court

A woman suspected of involvement in a bombing at a St. Petersburg cafe that killed a Russian military blogger is set to face a Moscow court that will set terms for her pre-trial detention

Daily Mirror

St Petersburg 'bomber' smiles on CCTV before she's caught as husband says she was framed

Daria Trepova's husband has said she had been framed and that he is "completely sure" that she would never have been able to do something like that in Russia on her own

Asharq Al-Awsat

Baghdad, Erbil Set to Restart Northern Oil Exports Tuesday

Iraq's federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have reached a final deal to restart northern oil exports to be announced Tuesday, official sources told Reuters. A formal request has been sent to Türkiye to restart oil exports through an Iraq-Türkiye pipeline and "in the next few hours pumping…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russian Children’s Commissioner Rejects ICC War Crime Allegations as False

Russia's commissioner for children's rights, who was accused by the International Criminal Court (ICC) alongside President Vladimir Putin of war crimes in Ukraine, said on Tuesday that the ICC's allegations were false and unclear. The Hague-based ICC on March 17 issued arrest warrants for Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian…

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