Australia- Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe shouts “You are not our King.”
Indigenous Australian senator Lidia Thorpe yelled an expletive-laden at statement King Charles following Senate Government leader Penny Wong’s speech during his visit to Canberra and Sydney. Thorpe shouted out “You are not our King. You are not sovereign.” Because of her yelling, she was led out by security guards from a reception in Parliament House last month. Thorpe also said “ You committed genocide against our people. Give us back our land back. Give us what you stole from us: bones, our skulls, our babies, our people.” With Thorpe’s colleagues disapproval of her conducted during the first visit to Australia by a British monarch in 13 years
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Ukraine-The US gives Ukraine the okay to fire at Russia.
US officials say that US President Joe Biden has given the green light for Ukraine to use long-range missiles that were supplied by the US to strike against Russia. This is a major change in policy for Washington which had refused for months to agree to Kyiv’s request for authorisation to use the ATACMS missiles outside of its own borders. Washington’s decision on the ATACMS is couched in terms of being limited to the defense of Ukrainian forces inside Russia’s Kursk region, which they took possession of in August, when Kyiv launched a surprise incursion.
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New Zealand- New Zealand protesting against the capital and for bill to pass through.
Protesters have left the grounds of New Zealand’s parliament with an estimated 35,000 people protesting in New Zealand’s capital against a bill that say that will redefine the country’s founding treaty with the Maori people. People marched from Wellington Park to the nation’s parliament. The protest was peaceful and lasted for about nine days. The bill seeks to reinterpret the 184-year-old Treaty of Waitangi between the British colonists and the Maori people. Even though the bill is unlikely to pass due to lack of support from some of the government coalition partners, critics say it still risks upsetting race relations.
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Israel- Israel and Hezbollah ceasefire against each other.
With ceasefire talks between Israel and Hezbollah have intensified and Lebanon’s government is expected to respond to a draft presented by the US. Amid an escalation of Israel’s air attack across the country. Missile strikes going on in the past week have killed dozens of people in Lebanon and they have appeared to be aimed at putting pressure on both Hezbollah and the Lebanese government to accept an agreement that would end more than a year of conflict. Recent attacks are seen as a part of Israel’s strategy to force Hezbollah and Lebanon to agree to a ceasefire, with non-military members prepared to expand its offensive and with striking places outside areas.
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