While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Nov 27, 2024
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a TV address on Nov 26 that he was ready to implement a ceasefire deal with Lebanon.
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Netanyahu ready to implement Israel-Lebanon ceasefire
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Nov 26 he was ready to implement a ceasefire deal with Lebanon and would respond forcefully to any violation by Hezbollah, declaring Israel would retain “complete military freedom of action”.
In a television address, Mr Netanyahu said he would put the ceasefire accord to his full Cabinet later in the evening.
Israeli TV reported that the more restricted security Cabinet had earlier approved the deal.
The accord, clearing the way for an end to a conflict that has killed thousands of people since it was ignited by the Gaza war in 2023, was brokered by the United States and France and was expected to take effect on Nov 27.
US Air Force says drones seen over its Uk military bases
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A number of unidentified drones have been spotted over three United States Air Force bases in England over the last six days, US officials said on Nov 26.
“Small unmanned aerial systems were spotted in the vicinity of and over RAF Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall, and RAF Feltwell from Nov 20 to Nov 26,” a spokesperson said, in an emailed response to Reuters. The three bases, two in Suffolk and one in Norfolk, are leased by the USAF from Britain.
A US official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said it did not appear that the drones were the work of hobbyists and appeared to be coordinated, but added that the US military would continue to investigate.
HK tycoon Jimmy Lai’s court case a ‘show trial’, says son
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The son of the Hong Kong democracy activist Jimmy Lai said on Nov 26 that his father’s trial in the Chinese territory was a “sham” but that he was “proud” of how he was handling himself in court.
The 76-year-old media tycoon has been testifying for three days in Hong Kong about claims that he colluded with foreign forces, an offence carrying up to life in prison under the sweeping national security law Beijing imposed on the financial hub in mid-2020.
The founder of the now-shuttered tabloid Apple Daily is also accused of “conspiracy to publish seditious publications”.
Paris airport shuts runways in search of runaway dog
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Two runways were closed at Paris’ Charles-de-Gaulle airport on Nov 26 as officials tried to capture a dog a week after it escaped from an aircraft, Air France and airport sources said.
Since the dog, a female, slipped out of a carrier cage on Nov 19 during an unloading operation, there has been an intense search for the pet, owned by an Austrian tourist who came to France on Air France from Vienna.
Airport police needed to deploy a search drone on Nov 26, requiring the closures. The plan, added airport officials, is to get close enough to tranquilise the animal with a hypodermic needle.
President welcomes home victorious Taiwan baseball team
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te feted the island’s baseball team on Nov 26 after their victory at an international championship in Japan, a rare sporting achievement which has brought a surge of pride in being Taiwanese.
Taiwan competes at global sports events as “Chinese Taipei” to avoid political objections from Beijing which views the island as its own, but its athletes are widely referred to by the president, his government and many Taiwanese as just being from “Team Taiwan”.
The team took part in a thronged ticker tape parade through central Taipei to the presidential office on the back of military jeeps and trucks, all wearing black hoodies with the word “Taiwan” in English printed on the front.
