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Brief truce in Gaza while Putin calls for peace

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Israel has agreed to a four day truce in Gaza as part of a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas brokered by Qatar – but the Netanyahu government says fighting will resume once the hand-overs are completed. Vladimir Putin says Russia has a moral obligation to deliver humanitarian aid to the civilian population in Gaza. And the Ansarallah movement that controls northern Yemen, popularly known as the Houthis, has opened up a second front against Israel by seizing an Israeli-owned cargo ship in the Red Sea.

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In the Amazon Jungle

by New Worker correspondent

As readers might be aware, Christmas is only a month away. One sign is the ancient tradition of Black Friday, which was invented to encourage a frenzy of unnecessary shopping the day after American Thanksgiving Day, which celebrates the start of the extermination of the native population of America.

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Editorial

Keep up the fight for Palestinian rights!

Although the prisoner exchange between Hamas and the Israelis may bring about a temporary halt in the fighting, there can be no let-up in the campaign for a permanent cease-fire and an end to the siege of the Gaza Strip..

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