The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Herforfd in the west of the country has removed Alexander Eichwald from its faction in the local council following a firebrand speech he held at the weekend, a party representative told dpa. Bielefeld AfD MP Maximilian Kneller told dpa on Monday that Eichwald has been removed.

The strike followed Islamic Jihad and Hamas violations of the ceasefire, including fire at Israeli forces on November 22, according to the military. Alaa al-Din Abd al-Nasser Hasan Khudar, a Nukhba commander within Palestinian Islamic Jihad Gaza City Brigade, was killed in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip, the military said on Monday.

The group has been charged under a law which prohibits people from joining foreign armies.

The Russian military has captured the Ukrainian mining city of Pokrovsk in the eastern Donetsk region, which has been under assault for about a year, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian journalists on Monday. Peskov said that President Vladimir Putin has been informed.

The park is named after Belfast-born and Dublin-raised Chaim Herzog, a former president of Israel.

“The IDF needs, more than ever, additional soldiers to carry the heavy burden of defending the state,” the letter said, arguing that mandatory service reflects Israel’s “shared destiny. ” Over 60 mayors and local council heads urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz, and Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chair Boaz Bismuth to stop the advancement of the latest IDF haredi draft bill, in a Monday letter.

Congo on Monday announced the end of an Ebola outbreak that killed 43 people in one of the country's southern provinces, with authorities saying no new confirmed cases had been reported in the past 45 days. Health Minister Roger Kamba said the 43 deaths were among 53 confirmed cases in the outbreak, which was first announced in September in the Kasai province town of Bulape. “Indeed, no new confirmed cases have been recorded for 45 consecutive days," Kamba said in the capital, Kinshasa.

BARCELONA/MADRID, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Spanish police, soldiers and park rangers are racing to identify wild boars that might be infected with African ​swine fever and prevent the disease from crossing into the country's domestic herd, which is central ‌to its multi-billion-euro pork export industry. Operatives are using drones, infrared technology and sniffer dogs to find any boar carcasses for testing, ‌as well as sealing off the areas around animal tracks under highways and pipework to prevent

HAVANA, Dec 1 () - Cuba on Monday confirmed the deaths of 33 people from mosquito-borne illnesses in recent ​months in an epidemic that has hit at least one-third of the ‌population, according to official reports. Deputy Minister of Health Carilda Peña said 12 people had died of dengue and ‌21 of chikungunya, the two viruses circulating widely across the Caribbean island nation.

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, Dec 1 (Reuters) - China's first crewed spacecraft to be ruled unfit to fly in mid-mission will be sent back to Earth for experts to assess the damage it sustained more

Africa’s forests have turned from a carbon sink into a carbon source, according to research that underscores the need for urgent action to save the world’s great natural climate stabilizers.

New testimony reveals major IAF failures during the October 7 massacre, including delays in response, missed warnings, and pilot frustration over centralized control. The Israel Air Force saw "severe failures" during the October 7, 2023, massacre, including a "chain of incorrect decisions, overly rigid control structures, and an inability to understand real-time situations," Brig.

African leaders pushed Sunday to have colonial-era crimes recognized, criminalized and addressed through reparations. At a conference in Algiers, diplomats and leaders convened to advance an African Union resolution passed at a meeting earlier this year calling for justice and reparations for victims of colonialism. In his opening speech, Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf said Algeria’s experience under French rule underscored the need to seek compensation and reclaim stolen property.

Police in Germany were accused of excessive use of force by protesters after riot police charged and used batons on a group of anti-fascist demonstrators over the weekend. The protest alliance Widersetzen, demonstrating against the founding of a youth organization tied to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, accused police of brutality against protesters in the western German city of Giessen.

An Israel Democracy Institute expert warns that MK Boaz Bismuth’s haredi draft offers no real enforcement and will not improve enlistment rates. Nothing will change from MK Boaz Bismuth’s (Likud) bill to enforce haredi (ultra-Orthodox) conscription to the IDF, which is currently being advanced merely for the government, “to stall for time,” Shlomit Ravitsky Tur-Paz of the Israel Democracy Institute told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

The park is named after Belfast-born and Dublin-raised Chaim Herzog, a former president of Israel.

UNIFIL spokeswoman Candice Ardell told BBC News that Hezbollah supporters had often blocked the organization's convoys, accusing them of spying for Israel. The IDF has committed more than 10,000 air and ground violations in Lebanon over the past year, UNIFIL claimed earlier this week, while condemning both Israel and Hezbollah for violating the ceasefire.

MADRID, Nov 29 () - About one third of Spanish pork export certificates have been blocked after the first outbreak ​of swine fever for three decades, Spain's agriculture minister said ‌on Saturday. "Of the 400 export certificates to 104 countries, a third are blocked.

The park is named after Belfast-born and Dublin-raised Chaim Herzog, a former president of Israel.

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MADRID, Nov 29 () - About one third of Spanish pork export certificates have been blocked after the first outbreak ​of swine fever for three decades, Spain's agriculture minister said ‌on Saturday. "Of the 400 export certificates to 104 countries, a third are blocked.

LONDON () -Britain said on Friday it would temporarily stop imports of pork meat from parts of Spain after the country confirmed its ​first cases of African swine fever in just over three decades. Britain is one of ‌Spain's main customers for pork, and the move comes as authorities in Madrid activated emergency measures in Catalonia,‌ a region central to pig farming.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) established a new youth organization called Generation Deutschland (GD) on Saturday at a founding congress accompanied by massive protests. More than 800 participants adopted a youth statute with rules on the role and work of the new organization, which, unlike its predecessor Junge Alternative, is to be closely linked to the AfD.

As delegates to a congress of the far-right Alternative for Germany voted for the executive committee of the new party youth organization, candidates struck a staunchly right-wing tone, leading to bizarre and chilling scenes on Saturday. Kevin Dorow, a young AfD politician from the state of Schleswig-Holstein elected to the leadership committee of the Generation Deutschland (GD), the new AfD youth organization, called on members not to distance themselves from the so-called periphery or "those w

Moldovan President Maia Sandu complained that her country's airspace has also been violated in the course of massive Russian drone attacks on Ukraine, in a social media post on Saturday. "On their way to kill civilians, Russian drones have once again violated Moldovan airspace, forcing its temporary closure," Sandu said.

The Islamic Republic has denied that it launched an attack. Ballistic missiles appeared to have been launched towards the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq over the weekend, according to local social media reports.

LONDON () -Britain said on Friday it would temporarily stop imports of pork meat from parts of Spain after the country confirmed its ​first cases of African swine fever in just over three decades. Britain is one of ‌Spain's main customers for pork, and the move comes as authorities in Madrid activated emergency measures in Catalonia,‌ a region central to pig farming.

Senegal's prime minister and Nigeria's former leader say they do not believe the military takeover was genuine.

Russia's telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor has threatened to completely block WhatsApp in the country following previous restrictions on the messaging service. If WhatsApp does not meet the requirements of Russian legislation, it will be blocked, the state news agency TASS quoted Roskomnadzor as saying in a statement on Friday.

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