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      14 January

      Israel plans judicial reforms, move may give govt more power over country’s top court

      Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to reorder the panel for selecting judges so that his government’s hold over Supreme Court appointments increase, according to draft legislation published on Wednesday. The new prime minister, however, claims he will preserve the judiciary’s independence. The panel for selecting judges now comprises three Supreme Court justices, two cabinet ministers, two parliamentarians and two lawyers. At least a 7-2 vote is required to approve an appointment, a threshold designed to encourage compromise. Under the new bill drawn up by Justice Minister Yariv Levin, the panel will be expanded to 11 members, who would be able to approve appointments by a bare majority of six votes in favour. With seven of the members envisaged…

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    • 14 January

      UK’s Middle East minister Lord Ahmad is BLOCKED from visiting Jerusalem holy site by Israeli police

      The UK’s Middle East minister was today blocked from visiting a holy site in Jerusalem by Israeli police. Lord Ahmad, a practising Muslim, was stopped from entering the al-Aqsa mosque by security forces during his first visit to the region as the UK’s Middle East minister. Lord Ahmad was forced to wait outside the mosque for half an hour before being let in, reports the BBC. The Islamic authority in charge of the al-Aqsa mosque said it was ‘unacceptable’ for Israeli police to block the minister from entering the holy site. ‘Whether he came as a minister or as a Muslim he shouldn’t have been blocked,’ it said. Lord Ahmad later played down the 30 minute wait, where he and other UK officials…

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    • 14 January

      PM says Johnson intends to stand in current constituency amid rumors of safe seat deal

      Rishi Sunak has said Boris Johnson intends to stand in his current Uxbridge seat at the next general election – after allies suggested the pair could strike a deal to avoid a leadership challenge. Yesterday, Sky News reported that close allies of former PM Mr. Johnson had claimed he could agree not to challenge Mr. Sunak’s leadership after the upcoming local elections in May in exchange for a safe seat to contest at the next general election. The friend said Mr. Johnson “will be in a strong position assuming we get hammered in May”, adding: “He can go to Rishi and say ‘give me a seat in exchange for good behavior.” Support among MPs for Mr. Johnson to oust Mr. Sunak amounts to “only…

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    • 13 January

      Special counsel to look into Biden’s handling of classified files

      Robert Hur, who had served in the Department when Donald Trump was President, will lead the investigation, the BBC reported. Washington: US Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a former Justice Department official as special counsel to probe President Joe Biden’s handling of two batches of classified documents which were found at an office he used after his term as Vice President and his home in Wilmington, Delaware. Robert Hur, who had served in the Department when Donald Trump was President, will lead the investigation, the BBC reported. The first batch of files were found on November 2, 2022 at the Penn Biden Center, a think-tank near the White House which Biden had used as office space from mid-2017 until the…

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    • 13 January

      Countries using cross-border terrorism should be held accountable: India

      India’s Permanent Representative Ruchira Kamboj told the UN Security Council on Thursday, “States that use cross-border terror to serve narrow political purposes must be held accountable”. United Nations: India has called for international solidarity to hold responsible under international law the countries that use cross-border terrorism. India’s Permanent Representative Ruchira Kamboj told the UN Security Council on Thursday, “States that use cross-border terror to serve narrow political purposes must be held accountable”. “This is only feasible when all countries stand together against common threats such as terrorism and do not engage in double standards for political expediency,” she said. “The application of rule of law at the international level should protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of States from aggression, including…

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    • 13 January

      NASA’s Webb telescope spots its first Earth-like exoplanet

      Formally classified as LHS 475 b, the planet is almost exactly the same size as our own, clocking in at 99 per cent of Earth’s diameter. Washington: Researchers have confirmed an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope for the first time. Formally classified as LHS 475 b, the planet is almost exactly the same size as our own, clocking in at 99 per cent of Earth’s diameter. LHS 475 b is relatively close, at only 41 light-years away, in the constellation Octans. “These first observational results from an Earth-size, rocky planet open the door to many future possibilities for studying rocky planet atmospheres with Webb,” said Mark Clampin, Astrophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.…

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    • 13 January

      Navalni’s wife demands urgent medical treatment for jailed opposition leader

      Yulia Navalny, wife of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, appealed Thursday to the “humanity” of prison officials where her husband is serving his sentence and demanded that they provide him with the medical treatment he requires. “When you return from work, surely at home parents, children are waiting for you. What goes through your heads, how do you live when you rejoice that you intentionally let a person get sick, that you do not take care of him, that you do not give him medicine?”, Navalnia has pointed out on her Instagram account. This desperate appeal by Navalnia comes at a time when the prominent opposition figure has been unable to attend a court hearing due to his health condition,…

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    • 13 January

      Crisis-hit Ghana increases public servant salaries by 30%

      ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s government and trade unions on Thursday agreed to increase all public servants’ salaries by 30% for 2023, they said in a joint statement, as the country struggles to reduce debt and tackle rampant inflation. The West African gold, oil and cocoa producer is battling its worst economic crisis in a generation. The local cedi dropped heavily against the dollar last year as government spending cuts and central bank interest rate hikes failed to tame inflation, which rose to a new high of 54% last month. Trade unions representing public service employees started negotiating salary rises with the government in November, a few months after hardship spurred street protests that pushed the government to seek help from…

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    • 13 January

      Iran to execute British citizen and former minister for being MI6 spy in ‘barbaric’ move

      Tehran is to execute an Anglo-Iranian man after convicting him of spying for MI6, state media has reported. Alireza Akbari, who was previously Iran’s deputy defence minister, was described by the Iranian authorities as “one of the most important infiltrators of the country’s sensitive and strategic centres”. He was arrested in 2019 but denies the charges. The Tasnim news agency said the Supreme Court had upheld his sentence and described him as a “key spy” for British intelligence. Mr Akbari’s wife, Maryam, who lives in the UK told BBC Persian that she had been told to visit him in prison in Tehran for a “final meeting”. She added that he had been transferred to solitary confinement, which is usually a sign of…

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    • 13 January

      Putin’s army chief handed ‘poisoned chalice’ amid Russian power tussle

      President Vladimir Putin has put his top military officer Valery Gerasimov in charge of Russia’s stalled invasion of Ukraine, in the latest reshuffle since the start of the war. The chief of the general staff will be expected to bolster the army’s sagging war effort while contending with the Wagner Group’s growing influence – a tall order that has led some analysts to suspect he was set up to fail. Just three months after he last reshuffled the deck, Putin has picked another commander to lead Russia’s troubled campaign in Ukraine, reflecting the Kremlin’s dissatisfaction with the course of the so-called “special military operation” launched on February 24.  This time Putin has tapped his most senior officer Valery Gerasimov, his chief of the…

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