01/31/2024 - DailyChatter

Israeli ministers and lawmakers attended a conference this week that called for the reestablishment of Israeli settlements and the relocation of the Palestinian population from the Gaza Strip, igniting condemnation and concerns from Israel’s international allies amid its ongoing war with Hamas, the Times of...

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January 31, 2024

Unlocking Power

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland’s largest British unionist party agreed to end a long-running boycott that left the region without a power-sharing government for two years and raised fears about stability in the once-restive territory, the Associated Press reported. Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Jeffrey Donaldson announced Tuesday that...

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January 31, 2024

Not Yet Crushed

Pakistan

Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi were jailed for 14 years on Wednesday on charges of corruption, the second sentence handed to the former prime minister in two days, the BBC reported. A court had already sentenced the cricket star-turned-politician to 10 years in prison...

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Discoveries

January 31, 2024

A Shark Check

Artistic depictions and recent popular culture have described the megalodon shark as a leviathan-sized predator that terrorized Earth’s oceans tens of millions of years ago. But a new study suggested it was nothing like the great white shark on steroids portrayed in the recent “The Meg”...

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The Best Defense …

Gaza Israel

The World Briefly

Unlocking Power

Northern Ireland

The World Briefly

Not Yet Crushed

Pakistan

Discoveries

A Shark Check