Worker at Israel’s Embassy in Beijing was attacked in unclear circumstances and is now hospitalized | AP News

Worker at Israel’s Embassy in Beijing was attacked in unclear circumstances and is now hospitalized | AP News

JERUSALEM (AP) — An employee of the Israeli Embassy in Beijing was attacked on Friday and later hospitalized, the country’s Foreign Ministry said. China did not immediately acknowledge the assault. It wasn’t immediately clear what sparked the attack, though it comes after Israel had criticized China for its statement that followed Hamas’ unprecedented attack last

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Muslims gather at mosques for first Friday prayers since Israel-Hamas war started | AP News

Muslims gather at mosques for first Friday prayers since Israel-Hamas war started | AP News

In Muslim communities across the world, worshippers gathered at mosques for their first Friday prayers since Hamas militants attacked Israel, igniting the latest Israel-Palestinian war.IN INDONESIA, PRAYERS FOR GOD’S PROTECTION AND FOR THE ABSENTIslamic leaders in Indonesia appealed to all mosques in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation to pray for peace and safety for

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Bregu: Važno pomoći gradovima da postanu ekološki i digitalno napredni

Bregu: Važno pomoći gradovima da postanu ekološki i digitalno napredni

Tranzicija | Izvor: Beta | 12.10.2023 | access_time 15:05 BETAPHOTO/RCC/Armand Habazaj Generalna sekretarka Saveta za regionalnu saradnju (RCC) Majlinda Bregu izjavila je danas u Tirani da je od “presudne važnosti” da se pomogne gradovima i regionima da ubrzaju svoju transformaciju u ekološki i digitalno napredne.  “Gradovi su obično u prvim redovima kada govorimo o suočavanju sa

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Many who struggled against Poland’s communist system feel they are fighting for democracy once again | AP News

Many who struggled against Poland’s communist system feel they are fighting for democracy once again | AP News

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Dariusz Stola began working with Poland’s anti-communist Solidarity movement in 1983. He was just 19 but already appalled by the way the regime imposed its harsh censorship, not just on political thought but culture as well.A member of his church choir would give him a stack of 200 opposition newspapers with

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Final arguments are being made before Australia’s vote Saturday to create Indigenous Voice | AP News

Final arguments are being made before Australia’s vote Saturday to create Indigenous Voice | AP News

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Opposing campaigners made their final pitches on Friday over changing the Australia’s constitution to acknowledge a place for Indigenous Australians on the eve of the nation’s first referendum in a generation.The referendum has the potential to amend Australia’s founding legal document for the first time since 1977. But opinion polls suggest

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Microsoft’s bid for Activision gets UK approval. It removes the last hurdle to the gaming deal | AP News

Microsoft’s bid for Activision gets UK approval. It removes the last hurdle to the gaming deal | AP News

LONDON (AP) — Microsoft’s purchase of video game maker Activision Blizzard won final approval Friday from Britain’s competition watchdog, reversing its earlier decision to block the $69 billion deal and removing a last obstacle for one of the largest tech transactions in history.The Competition and Markets Authority’s blessing was expected after it gave preliminary approval

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Stock market today: Asian markets slip as rising yields in the bond market pressure stocks | AP News

Stock market today: Asian markets slip as rising yields in the bond market pressure stocks | AP News

HONG KONG (AP) — Asian markets slipped on Friday following a decline on Wall Street driven by mounting pressure from rising bond market yields.U.S. futures rose slightly, and oil prices gained.China’s consumer prices in September remained flat compared to the same period last year, the National Bureau of Statistics reported on Friday, indicating persistent deflationary

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Hamas practiced in plain sight, posting video of mock attack weeks before border breach | AP News

Hamas practiced in plain sight, posting video of mock attack weeks before border breach | AP News

Less than a month before Hamas fighters blew through Israel’s high-tech “Iron Wall” and launched an attack that would leave more than 1,200 Israelis dead, they practiced in a very public dress rehearsal.A slickly produced two-minute propaganda video posted to social media by Hamas on Sept. 12 shows fighters using explosives to blast through a

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