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The Israeli army has spent the last 24 hours expanding the so-called 'yellow line' in eastern Gaza, particularly in the neighbourhoods of Tuffah, Shujayea and Zeitoun, also in eastern Gaza City, squeezing Palestinians into smaller and smaller groups in the enclave.

This is what Al-Jazeera reports, from its field staff. Israel now physically occupies more than 50% of the Gaza Strip, the Arab news outlet points out. The Israeli army's actions today are also pushing the army closer to the main artery of Salah al-Din Street, forcing displaced families sheltering near the area to flee, as more and more of them are under intense threat, while Israel's genocidal war against Gaza shows no sign of abating.

Intense artillery shelling and helicopter fire also resumed today, 5 January, in areas south of the besieged enclave, north and east of the towns of Rafah and Khan Younis.

On 4 January, Israel launched further attacks in areas of Gaza outside its direct military control, according to Al-Jazeera. At least three Palestinians were killed in several Israeli attacks in Khan Younis, according to medical sources. A five-storey building in central Gaza collapsed: it had been the target of Israeli shelling in late 2023. Civil Defence teams are searching for missing people under the rubble. The Wafa news agency reported that at least five people were injured.

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World leaders and top military officials are converging on the French capital Tuesday under growing doubt that a Western-backed peace plan for Ukraine can move beyond political symbolism and impose real costs on Moscow – or whether it risks becoming yet another diplomatic exercise overtaken by events on the battlefield.

The meeting, convened under the banner of the “Coalition of the Willing,” comes as Russian missiles continue to strike Ukrainian cities and as analysts warn that any agreement lacking enforcement mechanisms is unlikely to deter the Kremlin.

Ukrainian officials say the framework under discussion is “90 percent” complete. But that final 10%  – security guarantees, US buy-in and clear penalties for Russian violations – may ultimately determine whether the plan survives contact with reality.

“This week, we will be working with our European and American partners to ensure that Ukraine has the assistance it needs,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday.https://www.kyivpost.com/post/67472

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According to Ukrinform, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported this on Facebook, releasing operational information as of 22:00 on Sunday, January 4.

"Since the start of the day, 154 combat engagements have taken place. Today, the occupiers carried out 23 airstrikes, used one missile, and dropped 75 guided aerial bombs. In addition, the Russians employed 4,663 kamikaze drones and conducted 3,057 shelling attacks on the positions of our troops and populated areas," the statement said.

In the Northern Slobozhanshchyna and Kursk sectors, the enemy carried out 93 shelling attacks, including one using multiple launch rocket systems.

In the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector, Ukrainian troops repelled seven enemy attacks in the areas of Vovchansk, Starytsia, Prylipky, Fyholivka, and toward Izbytske and Kutkivka.

In the Kupiansk sector, the enemy attempted to advance three times during the day in the areas of Stepova Novoselivka, Pershotravneve, and toward Petropavlivka.

In the Lyman sector, Russian invaders attacked Ukrainian positions nine times near the settlements of Novoselivka, Kolodiazne, and Torske. One engagement is still ongoing.

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Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died, her daughter and the Cuban government said.

Shakur, who went by Joanne Deborah Chesimard before changing her name, died Thursday in the capital city of Havana due to “health conditions and advanced age,” Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. Shakur’s daughter, Kakuya Shakur, confirmed her mother’s death in a Facebook post.

Officials in New Jersey, where Shakur had been arrested, convicted and imprisoned, said she was 78.

A member of Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, Shakur’s case had long been emblematic of the fraught relations between the U.S. and Cuba. American authorities, including President Donald Trump during his first term, demanded her return from the communist nation for decades.

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As uncertainty simmers in Venezuela, interim President Delcy Rodríguez has taken the place of her ally President Nicolás Maduro, captured by the United States in a nighttime military operation.

Rodríguez served as Maduro’s vice president since 2018, overseeing much of Venezuela’s oil-dependent economy and its feared intelligence service, and was next in the presidential line of succession.

She’s part of a band of senior officials in Maduro’s administration that now appears to control Venezuela, even as U.S. President Donald Trump and other officials say they will pressure the government to fall in line with its vision for the oil-rich nation.

On Saturday, Venezuela’s high court ordered her to assume the role of interim president, and the leader was backed by Venezuela’s military. In a televised address, Rodríguez gave no indication that she would cooperate with Trump, referring to his government as “extremists.”

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A day after the U.S. military toppled Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump appeared to have his eyes trained on the next target for American intervention: Greenland.

Since taking office in 2025, Trump has repeatedly floated buying the ice-covered Arctic island from Denmark and has refused to rule out taking the resource-rich land through military force. Trump has argued that annexing Greenland is a national security necessity, noting its mass of critical minerals and strategic location.

He renewed those calls Sunday, Jan. 4 as his administration took a victory lap for their ouster of Venezuela's socialist dictator and as he promised to "run" the South American country until a democratic transition could occur.

"We do need Greenland, absolutely. We need it for defense," Trump told The Atlantic in an interview published Jan. 4, describing the island as reportedly "surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships."

The same day, Katie Miller, the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, posted a photo of Greenland covered with the American flag. Above it, Miller wrote "SOON."

Denmark's ambassador to the United States, Jesper Moeller Soerensen, responded, saying: "We expect full respect for the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark."Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen has repeatedly rebuked Trump’s interest in colonizing Greenland. The "U.S. shall not take over Greenland," he said in stark terms in December.

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