World News Brief: 18 February 2024 – 2024-02-19 13:13:29

Numerous events are happening around us every day. A few things may come up in the discussion. However, several things become important in terms of time and circumstances. If you don’t know them, you have to fall back in many cases. For this reason, there are some important news for the readers of Jago News from various events happening in different parts of the world.

The number of people killed in the Israeli attack in Gaza has reached 29,000
The violence of the Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip does not stop. Israel has killed about 29,000 Palestinians there so far. According to a report by Wafa news agency, 10 Palestinians were killed in one night as Israeli forces attacked Deir al-Balah and Rafah areas in central Gaza.

Netanyahu ‘playing games’ over Gaza ceasefire: Hamas spokesman
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still ‘playing games’ on Gaza ceasefire talks. Osama Hamdan, the top spokesman of the Palestinian independence organization Hamas, made such comments. Hamdan told Al Jazeera from Beirut that the main reason for the disagreement over the ceasefire was Netanyahu and that he was ‘playing games’.

The Sharif-Zardari alliance has not yet reached a ‘give-take’ agreement
10 days are going to pass after the election in Pakistan. But the coalition government is yet to reach a final decision on power-sharing between Nawaz Sharif’s PML-N and Bilwal Bhutto Zardari’s PPP. Their meetings repeatedly end inconclusively. Both parties, however, claimed that there had been “significant progress” in the talks.

The election officer who resigned in Pakistan is detained
The police arrested the Commissioner of Rawalpindi Division, Liaquat Ali Chatta, who resigned after accepting responsibility for rigging the recently concluded elections in Pakistan. On Sunday (February 18), Dawn reported that Chata surrendered to the police after resigning at the press conference. Later the police raided his office and closed it.

Russia captures Ukraine’s ‘symbol of resistance’ Avdivka
Russia has captured the city of Avdivka, considered a symbol of Ukrainian resistance. Ukraine withdrew its troops from the city last Saturday (February 17) to avoid being surrounded and running out of ammunition. As a result, President Vladimir Putin won another symbolic victory on the battlefield just before elections in Russia.

The United States will give $60 billion in aid to Ukraine
The United States will give $60 billion in aid to Ukraine. US President Joe Biden has assured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about this. However, in order for Ukraine to receive this aid, it must first pass a final vote of Congress. Biden, however, told Zelensky that he was optimistic the bill would pass.

More than four hundred detained in Russia while paying tribute to Navalny
Local police have detained more than 400 people for paying tribute and rallying in memory of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after his death. They were arrested from different areas of Russia on Saturday (17 February). The New York Times reported this information about the Russian human rights organization OVD-Infor.

The former Prime Minister of Thailand has been released on parole
Former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaskin Shinawatra has been released on parole. After being released, he returned to his home in the capital, Bangkok. He was released on parole from a police hospital. He served a one-year sentence for corruption and abuse of power.

It is forbidden to take pictures of ‘living things’ in Kandahar, Afghanistan!
The local administration has ordered to refrain from taking pictures of any kind of ‘living things’ in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The order was given in a letter addressed to local military-civilian officials on Sunday (February 18), news agency AFP said. Kandahar province is said to be the birthplace of the Taliban.

The body of the son of the former CEO of YouTube was lying on the campus
Marko Tropper, son of former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, has died. Earlier this week, the trooper was found dead in a dormitory at the University of California, Berkeley. This information has been confirmed by his family.

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