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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Peter Beaumont
America’s advanced weapons manufacturers are likely to face a critical shortfall of key rare-earth minerals that they import from China as a consequence of Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with Beijing.
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2 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Peter Beaumont
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2 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Peter Beaumont
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Peter Beaumont
The Israel Defense Forces changing account of its killing of 15 Palestinian medics and civil defence workers is part of a long familiar pattern in high profile cases involving the killing of civilians. Often, at first, the IDF denies involvement. Sometimes – in the context of Gaza – it initially suggests one of Hamas’s own rockets fell short, causing the casualties. Otherwise, it might allege that those killed were either combatants themselves, or collateral damage from the targeting of combatants.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Peter Beaumont
Autopsies conducted on 15 Palestinian paramedics and civil emergency responders who were killed by Israeli forces in Gaza show they were were shot in the upper body with “intent to kill”, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, which is demanding an international investigation into the attack. The killings took place in the southern Gaza Strip on 23 March, days into a renewed Israeli offensive in the Hamas-ruled territory, and sparked international condemnation.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Peter Beaumont
Kirill Dmitriev’s meetings with US officials in the White House last week went largely below the radar. And deliberately so. The dapper investment envoy to Russian president Vladimir Putin, who also serves as a key negotiator for Moscow on Ukraine, posted an image of his flight plan on social media to make the point that a senior sanctioned Russian official was being welcomed by the Trump administration. Otherwise, details of what was discussed remain opaque.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Peter Beaumont
An employee of Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), who was parachuted in as a senior manager at the US Agency for International development as it was being wound up, has been accused of a history of misogyny, racism and violent outbursts. The claims against 28-year-old Jeremy Lewin were made following an investigation by Rolling Stone magazine, which said it was based on interviews with 10 people who know him.
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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Peter Beaumont
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4 weeks ago | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Peter Beaumont
A police vehicle in front of a hospital in Hurghada on Thursday. A police vehicle in front of a hospital in Hurghada on Thursday. Photograph: APSix Russian tourists have died and 39 others have been rescued after a submarine sank near the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada, the local governor’s office has said, adding that no passengers or crew were still missing.
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4 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Peter Beaumont
At least six people have reportedly died and nine have been injured after a 44-seater tourist submarine sunk off the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada. The incident, involving a recreational vessel operated by Sinbad Submarines, occurred in waters opposite Hurghada’s Marriot Hotel resort. Citing municipal officials, Reuters and Associated Press reported that six foreigners, whose nationalities are still unknown, had died. It was not immediately clear what caused the submarine to sink.
