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Welcome to Tuesday, where Donald Trump is expected to pick a familiar name as new secretary of state, Saudi Crown Prince MBS condemns Israeli actions as “genocide,” and Greta Thunberg joins COP29 protests. From Gazeta Wyborcza, we also feature a look by Małgorzata Tomczak at how “tough” Poland has emerged as the new authority on migration.
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Despite the official arrival of Haiti’s new prime minister, Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, gang violence is still wreaking havoc in the Caribbean nation, reports local newspaper Le Nouvelliste. On Monday, two U.S. passenger planes were struck by gunfire at the international airport Toussaint Louverture in Port-au-Prince. Haitian authorities suspended all flights in and out of the capital for a week, “once again cutting Haiti from the rest of the world due to gangs,” the daily writes.
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• Trump expected to tap U.S. Senator Marco Rubio for secretary of state. Donald Trump is expected to tap the senior Florida senator to be his secretary of state, putting Rubio on track to be the first Latino to serve as America's top diplomat once the Republican president-elect takes office in January. Meanwhile, a New York judge will decide Tuesday whether to dismiss Trump's 34 felony convictions, potentially granting him a key legal victory as he prepares for office. The case review follows a U.S. Supreme Court ruling granting broad immunity to presidents for official acts, which could impact Trump’s sentencing. Read more on Donald Trump’s upcoming administration in this article by French analyst Pierre Haski.
• Israeli strikes kill 14 Palestinians in Gaza. Israeli airstrikes hit a cafeteria and a home in Gaza, killing at least 14 people, medical officials said. In Lebanon, warplanes struck the capital Beirut’s southern suburbs on Tuesday after the military ordered a number of houses there to evacuate. Meanwhile, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza as a “genocide” in some of the harshest public criticism of the country by a Saudi official since the start of the war. Speaking at a summit of Muslim and Arab leaders, the prince also criticized Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Iran. Follow Worldcrunch’s international coverage of the Middle East here.
• Ukraine fights 50,000 troops in Kursk, North Korea and Russia sign defense treaty. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday Russia has deployed nearly 50,000 troops to Kursk, the southern Russian region where Kyiv launched its surprise counteroffensive this summer. Meanwhile, North Korea has ratified a landmark mutual defense treaty with Russia, as international concern grows over increasing military cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang. Read more about North Korea’s involvement in the Ukraine war in this piece by German daily Die Zeit.
• Dozens killed after car crashes into crowd in China. At least 35 people were killed and 43 more injured after a car deliberately plowed into a crowd of people exercising outside a stadium in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai on Monday. Police said they had detained a 62-year-old man, whose last name is Fan, and that a preliminary investigation found he was dissatisfied with the outcome of a property settlement following his divorce.
• New arrests made in Amsterdam over violence after soccer match. Dutch police have made five more arrests over the violence that followed a match involving an Israeli soccer team in Amsterdam on Thursday night. The five men, all from the Netherlands and aged between 18 and 37, are suspected of "public violence against persons" before and after the Maccabi Tel Aviv match against local team Ajax.
• Protests in Georgia to demand new election and push for EU integration. Opposition supporters rallied Monday in Georgia’s capital in continuing protests against the ruling party's declared victory in the Oct. 26 parliamentary election amid allegations that Russia helped rig the vote. To know more about the alleged Kremlin interference in the recent Georgia elections, read this article.
• Thousands in Australia line up to see and smell rare plant. After days of anticipation, the so-called “corpse flower,” or Amorphophallus Titanum, at the Geelong Botanic Garden, just south of Melbourne, began blooming on Monday — and about 5,000 people arrived to experience the putrid stench it releases to attract pollinators like beetles and flies. The plant blooms unpredictably, sometimes just once every 10 years and each bloom only lasts 24 hours to 48 hours.
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📰 IN OTHER NEWS
🇮🇱 “Israel is not just a state in the Middle East, but rather an international status in the Middle East.” One Arab writer takes issue with a noted scholar who assigns the lion's share of the blame to the establishment of the Jewish State.
— DARAJ
🛃 One of the few EU countries to not agree to the 2015 migration scheme, Poland had long been viewed as a right-wing periphery on migration. But with the rest of Europe moving rightward, Poland has emerged as the new leader on the issue.
— GAZETA WYBORCZA
🤜🤛 Donald Trump set out to win over young, disengaged heterosexual men, the so-called “bros,” as a core constituency. And he succeeded. What does this victory means for the #MeToo movement?
— DIE ZEIT
📣 VERBATIM
“It was horrific. It was heartbreaking. It was wrong. And it should never have happened.”
— During a parliamentary session, New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon delivered an historical apology to the victims of abuse in care homes after an inquiry revealed one of the country's biggest abuse scandals. The report had found that 200,000 children and vulnerable adults, many of them from the Māori and Pacific communities and with mental or physical disabilities, had suffered abuse while in state and faith-based care between 1950 and 2019. The abuses included rape, sterilisation and forced labour. “I make this apology to all survivors on behalf of my own and previous governments,” Luxon said on Tuesday, adding: “For many of you it changed the course of your life, and for that, the government must take responsibility.”
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