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The Israeli military said Hamas militants were the targets of a strike on Gaza City's Al Wafa hospital on Sunday, which the Palestinian civil defence said killed seven people.

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Experts say many questions remain, including why the planeappeared to be travelling so fast and why its landing gear did not appear to be down when it skidded down the runway and into a wall.

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"Unfortunately, in the first three days we heard only absurd versions from Russia," the president Ilham Aliyev said. He added that he wanted Russia to accept it was guilty of downing the plane and to punish those responsible.

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Carter's one-term presidency was marked by the highs of the 1978 Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt, bringing some stability to the Middle East.

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During his fis first term Milanović has clashed with Prime Minister Andrej Plenković over foreign and public policy and has fiercely criticised the EU and NATO over their support for Ukraine.

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The support of the AfD from Musk, who is set to serve US President-elect Donald Trump's administration as an outside adviser, comes as Germans are set to vote on 23 February.

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In this episode, host Giada Santana and agrifood reporter Sofia Sánchez Manzanaro outline supporters and detractors of EUDR, and possible scenarios ahead of the vote.

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The outgoing president said an election rerun is the only way to resolve the crisis.

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Video shared by local media showed the twin-engine aircraft skidding down the runway with no apparent landing gear before slamming into a wall in an explosion of flame

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Shortly after the piece was published online, the editor of the opinion section, Eva Marie Kogel, wrote on X that she had submitted her resignation.

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"Slovakia is part of the single European energy market and Fico must respect common EU rules," Zelenskyy said, adding that cutting power supplies to Ukraine would deprive Slovakia of 19% of the electricity it imports. .

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The extremely rare publicised apology from Putin was the closest Moscow had come to accepting some blame for Wednesday's disaster.

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Baltic nations are on alert after a string of outages of power cables, telecom links and gas pipelines since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

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The US said Ivanishvili had implemented "actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or institutions in the United States or abroad" favouring Russia.

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Zelenskyy said the Korean people "should not be losing their lives in battles in Europe. This is something that Korea's neighbours, including China, can influence."

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"If it is unavoidable, we will halt the electricity supplies that Ukraine needs during grid outages. Or we will agree on a different course of action," said Robert Fico.

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The impeachment of Han Duck-soo, the acting president since Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached for declaring martial law, has pushed South Korea into uncharted territory.

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Written by Marc Jütten.

Economic security has become crucial for the EU. Both the Letta Report on the future of the single market and the Draghi Report on the future of European competitiveness emphasise the need to intensify efforts to secure the EU’s supply of critical raw materials (CRM). Europe is vulnerable to both coercion and geo-economic fragmentation because of its high dependency on strategic raw materials from countries with which the EU is not strategically aligned. Diversifying imports of strategic raw materials is key to mastering the clean transition of Europe’s economy, mitigating supply chain risks and reducing the EU’s strategic dependencies.

In line with its CRM strategy, the EU is seeking to conclude new partnerships in the context of the EU trade and Global Gateway strategies. However, the EU is not the only actor looking to secure access to CRM supplies. China, for example, is bolstering its global dominance in strategic and emerging technologies, continuously increasing its presence in Latin America (and Africa) in order to secure its supply of strategic raw materials. The region is primarily rich in lithium and copper, which are essential for renewable energy technologies and the production of the lithium-ion batteries used in laptops, smartphones, and hybrid and electric vehicles.

Since 2023, Latin America, too, has won the EU’s renewed attention, and real steps to enhance cooperation on CRM have been taken. In 2023, the EU signed a memorandum of understanding with Argentina and Chile on sustainable raw materials value chains. In November 2024, an interim trade agreement with Chile was ratified – the first EU trade agreement comprising a specific chapter on energy and raw materials. In December 2024, the EU and Mercosur finally reached a political agreement on the EU–Mercosur partnership agreement. As Mercosur countries, primarily Argentina and Brazil, are major producers of CRM, the agreement could help the EU secure an efficient, reliable and sustainable flow of the raw materials that are critical for the clean transition and for the EU’s strategic autonomy more widely.

Read the complete briefing on ‘EU–Latin America: Enhancing cooperation on critical raw materialsin the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.

The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he was about to board a plane at the Sanaa airport when it came under attack. A crew member on the plane was injured, he said.

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Can the possible 'sick man of Europe' come back from the brink?

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