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Many children were forced to drop out of school and work as a result of Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza.

In the wake of days of tropical storms, more than 1, 000 people have died as a result of floods and landslides in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Malaysia. As aid teams battle their way to remote areas, President Prabowo is under increasing pressure to declare a national emergency in North Sumatra.

As Ukrainian and European defense chiefs gathered in Brussels for discussions centered on Ukrainian and collective security, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris to bolster support for Kyiv.

The meetings took place on Monday as a result of a diplomatic blitz to put an end to Russia’s nearly four-year-old conflict in Ukraine.

The two presidents would talk about the prerequisites for a “just and lasting peace,” according to Macron’s office before the meeting.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot stated that the meeting was meant to “move the negotiations forward” in a statement to La Tribune Dimanche newspaper on Sunday.

If Russian President Vladimir Putin abandons his conceited plan to resurrect the Soviet empire by first annexing Ukraine, he said, “Peace is within reach.”

Ministers of the EU

According to Hashem Alhelbarra, a reporter from Brussels who was present at a meeting of the defense ministers of the European Union who was also present with Denys Shmyhal, the country’s defense minister, wanted a “pact where no part of Ukraine being handed over to Russia as the price they have to pay for a permanent deal.”

The bloc is concerned about a “blanket amnesty,” which would prevent Russian officials from facing charges for crimes committed in Ukraine, Alhelbarra added.

Following a day of talks between Ukrainian and American negotiators in Florida on Sunday, Zelenskyy announced on social media that he had informed Finland’s President Alexander Stubb of the “signals we have received from the American side.”

The Ukrainian leader added that, in line with Mark Rutte and Ursula von der Leyen, the situation is crucial and there is still room for improvement.

Zelenskyy noted that there are still “some tough issues that need to be worked through” during the talks between US and Ukrainian negotiators in the US on Sunday.

It is a step forward from the original 28-point peace proposal, which it and its allies in Europe, for Kyiv.

There is a good chance we can make a deal, the US president declared on Air Force One on Sunday.

He added that Ukraine has “some difficult little problems” as well. In response to a corruption scandal in the energy sector, Andriy Yermak, Zelenskyy’s chief of staff and Ukraine’s top negotiator, resigned two days prior.

More work is required.

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, praised the success of the Florida talks, adding that “there is still work to be done.”

There are a lot of moving parts, he said, and there is obviously another party involved, which will have to be a part of the situation, which will continue with Mr. Witkoff’s trip to Moscow later this week.

Rory Challands, a reporter from Kyiv, claimed that Rubio, the country’s most amiable senior official under the Trump administration, was in charge of the negotiations.

The situation seems to be going well for the Ukrainians because Rubio appears to be driving the car right now, Challands said.

He argued, however, that caution was required given Trump’s unpredictable nature and Russia’s unwillingness to follow through on the most recent draft peace plan.

Putin has stated that he will only end the conflict once Ukrainian troops leave four of the regions that Russia illegally annexed in 2022 but still maintains a maximalist grip.

“We’ll use force to achieve this if they don’t withdraw,” he says. That is it, the Russian president said last week.

When they meet in the Russian capital on Tuesday afternoon, US envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will talk about the most recent draft peace agreement.

Russians’ reporter from Moscow Yulia Shapovalova reported that the country generally does not enjoy their visit.

Polls indicate that the majority of Russians “really want an end to the conflict as soon as possible,” according to Shapovalova. On the other hand, Steve Witkoff’s visit doesn’t inspire much interest, she continued.

Russia’s Ministry of Defense announced on Monday that its troops had taken control of the Donetsk settlement in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. Independent verification of the announcement was not possible.

deadly attack on Dnipro

According to Vladyslav Gaivanenko, the acting governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, at least four people were killed and 40 others were hurt, 11 of whom were critically, in a Monday Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.

According to Dnipro’s mayor Borys Filatov, the strike damaged four residential high-rises and a city center educational facility. He added that there are still ongoing searches and rescue operations.

Before the Dnipro attack, Russia launched 89 strike and decoy drones overnight, with 63 of them being shot down or encircled, according to Ukraine.

Pope Leo prayed for Saint Charbel to help settle conflicts and bring peace to the area while stopping at one of Lebanon’s most significant Christian sites.

Your Party, a new left-wing political party in the United Kingdom founded by former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, is at odds with its leaders.

Due to a serious disagreement over who could attend, Your Party cofounder Zarah Sultana announced on Saturday that she would not attend the group’s inaugural two-day conference on Saturday.

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Following 14 years of Conservative Party rule, Corbyn and four other left-leaning independents, including Shockat Adam, Adnan Hussain, Ayoub Khan, and Iqbal Mohamed, founded the Independent Alliance, which emphasized strongly on adopting a pro-Palestine position in the wake of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.

Following yet another defeat for the Conservatives in the 2019 election, Corbyn, 76, resigned as leader of the Labour Party.

While leading Labour, Corbyn had long endured accusations of anti-Semitism, which many people called a “witch-hunt” against him and his supporters, among other things.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission discovered that Labour had violated the anti-Jewish racism law in 2020. It attributed a portion of Corbyn’s party leadership to “serious failings.”

Corbyn responded that anti-Semitism was “absolutely abhorrent,” but Corbyn added that “our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by a large amount of the media, significantly overstated the magnitude of the problem for political reasons.”

He was immediately expelled from the party as a result. After nearly 60 years of membership, he was readmitted in 2020, but he ultimately left the Labour Party in 2024 to become an independent MP.

He announced in late July that he would form a new socialist party with 32-year-old independent MP Zarah Sultana, who also resigned from Labour on July 3. The Independent Alliance’s other members also enlisted. The new party’s objective was to establish itself as a credible left-wing alternative to the ruling Labour Party.

When the government claims there are billions for war, Corbyn and Sultana claimed in a statement at the time that the system is rigged.

According to the statement, they “wanted a party that was rooted in our communities, trade unions, and social movements.”

During the inaugural conference, which took place in the northwestern English city of Liverpool and ended with a stirring rendition of Bella Ciao, an Italian antifascist folk song, by attendees, Corbyn said, “We’ve got to come together and be united because division and disunity will not serve the interests of the people that we want to represent.”

Why didn’t Sultana show up on time for the first day?

Sultana made a statement on Saturday that she would not attend in protest of one of her party’s supporters being denied entry to the event and several others being kicked out of the party for allegedly belonging to the far-left Socialist Workers Party.

People who have traveled from all over the country, spent a lot of money on their train tickets, hotels, and were able to attend this conference have been informed that they have been expelled, Sultana told the Press Association news agency.

She continued, “That culture is reminiscent of the Labour Party, how members were treated with contempt during witch-hunts on the eve of the conference, and how members were treated.”

However, a spokesperson for Your Party, who is unnamed, defended the Socialist Workers Party’s ban. The spokesperson told the UK media that “other national political party members signed up to Your Party in violation of clearly stated membership regulations,” and these rules were put in place.

Sultana apologized for what she described as “hiccups” during the party’s opening on Sunday during the second day of the conference.

However, she continued, “Conference floor bans, expulsions, and censorship are unacceptable.” It is anti-democratic. It attacks both this movement and its members.

What other issues did the leaders have disagreements with?

There have been numerous disagreements between the young party.

Funding

When Sultana first announced its intentions in July, Corbyn, Iqbal Mohamed, and Adnan Hussain accused the party of withholding more than 800,000 pounds ($1.06 million) in donations.

The party was being temporarily collected by a private company called MoU Operations Ltd, which Sultana controls, because it was still in the process of registering as a legal entity.

Unnamed Sultana spokesperson told The BBC on November 8 that she was “in the process of transferring all funds and data” but was also conducting “essential due diligence as part of this process.”

According to a statement from Your Party leaders, the party had received a “small portion” of the funds as of mid-November. The status of the remaining funds has not received any more recent updates.

model for leadership

The newly formed party’s leadership was in disagreement.

A single, traditional leader would be more effective, Corbyn claimed, while Sultana was pushing for a collective of leaders to reflect “maximum member democracy” (what she termed “maximum member democracy).

The party won the election by a narrow margin of 51.6 percent to 48.4 percent in the end for a group of leaders.

This results in a collective of leaders that will now be led by a non-parlamentarian party member.

In the end, many believe that Corbyn and Sultana’s conflict of interest is to blame for the party’s problems.

According to reports from the UK media, Sultana’s decision to hold a pre-conference rally the night before the conference started irritate Corbyn supporters. They claimed it was solely her, but she called it a Your Party event.

Desertions at parties

As Corbyn’s supporters accuse Sultana of trying to undermine him and vice versa, several members of the new party, including some working MPs, have already resigned. Adnan Hussain, a blackburn MP, announced his departure in an X-post on November 14.

Instead of a shared commitment to the common good, Hussain wrote in a statement, “The culture surrounding the party has become dominated by persistent infighting, factional competition, and a struggle for power, position, and influence.”

The environment has too frequently felt toxic, exclusionary, and deeply disheartening, he added, instead of cooperation, cooperation, and outward focus.

After much thought, I made the difficult choice to leave Your Party’s steering committee.

I wish those who continue to work on this project the best of luck and hope that their hard work leads to the desired outcomes. pic. twitter.com/zz4EevEIzu

Iqbal Mohamed, a Dewsbury and Batley MP, also made his exit announcements a week later.

The numerous false allegations and smears against me and others, which have been reported as fact without any supporting evidence, have been surprising and disappointing, Mohamed said in a statement posted on X on November 21. I can assure my coworkers and I have done so in good faith throughout, but we haven’t changed our jobs.

My resignation from Your Party. pic. twitter.com/NsoNLHU7xI