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The Belfast agreement is also called the good friday agreement because it was signed on good friday 1998. According to a report, in advance of the agreement as negotiations intensified a senior unionist leader warned the irish government that northern Ireland faced the threat of civil war with the potential for loyalist attacks to be mounted in Dublin if the proposed agreement stalled. Reportedly, the deputy leader of the Ulster unionist party delivered a briefing to an irish embassy official on the threats.

According to a report, the language of the agreement reflects the uk’s change of emphasis from unionism to a united Ireland, but that northern Ireland would remain part of the uk unless the majority of people in both the north and the south wished otherwise. Reportedly, the agreement asserts the right of self determination for both the north and the south to bring about a united Ireland, which must be agreed and exercised subject to the agreement.

According to reports, the agreement created a number of institutions between southern and northern Ireland, one being that the police service northern Ireland and the irish police would work in partnership. Reportedly, it established the northern Ireland assembly and the north south ministerial council, a body established to coordinate activity and exercise certain government powers across the whole of Ireland. According to reports, the north south ministerial council and the northern Ireland assembly are interdependant, that is one can’t exist without the other.

According to a report, the israeli defence force said military operations were continuing in Khan Younis, southern Gaza’s main city and in refugee camps and neighbourhoods in central Gaza. Reportedly, palestinians have packed into areas along the border with Egypt and along southern Gaza’s coastline where shelters and tent camps are overflowing. According to the report, Israel said it would expand its ground offensive and are launching waves of airstrikes and shelling before troops move in. Reportedly, on Wednesday night Israel bombarded cities, towns and refugee camps across Gaza; non stop explosions could be heard in the central town of Deir al Balah where hundreds of thousands of people have sought shelter.

According to the report, shooting is intensifying along Israel’s northern border with Lebanon and the idf have warned of a possible expansion of operations where hezbollah is operating. Reportedly, Iran threatened Israel with direct actions following the death of an iranian officer in an airstrike in Syria it blamed on Israel. According to the report, clashes between hezbollah and Israel have been an almost daily occurrence since fighting began in Gaza. Reportedly, Israel are also increasing their night raids on major cities in Samaria.

According to a report, Wolfgang Schäuble a german politician whose political career spanned more than five decades died on Tuesday, aged 81. Reportedly, the longest serving member of any german democratic parliament, in 1990 he played an important role in Germany’s reunification with the communist east, but suffered spinal injuries after being the target of a shooting and became confined to a wheelchair. According to the report, a christian democrat and Germany’s finance minister from 2009-2017 he was renowned for his austerity measures.

According to reports, Jacques Delores died on Wednesday at the age of 98. Reportedly, the french politician and socialist served as president of the european commission from 1985-1995 and played a key role in the creation of the euro. According to a report, he was recognised for his efforts in attempting to stop the Yugoslav disintegration wars of the 1990s.

Reportedly, the committee for the study of economic and monetary union, known as the Delores committee was set up in 1988 upon a mandate from the european council, its report was published in 1989. According to the report, the treaty on european union (known as the Maastricht treaty) declaring a new stage of european integration concluded between the then 12 member nations in 1992. Reportedly, some saw it as a sign of a new federal Europe, and in 2007 the focus of debate shifted to the Lisbon treaty, followed by the euro crisis. According to the report, the charter of fundamental rights is not incorporated into the treaty of Lisbon. When the Lisbon treaty failed to win public approval in Ireland fine gael put it to vote a second time.

According to a report, on Sunday the israeli defence force said they had found a large tunnel network beneath the Jabaliya neighbourhood and refugee camp, north of Gaza city. Reportedly, investigative troops found the bodies of five hostages in the tunnel network following intelligence reports that two hostages were being held in Jabaliya. According to the report, the tunnels were on two levels with an elevator to a large hall, thought to be a command centre, and contained weapons and infrastructure to manufacture weapons. Reportedly, one tunnel included a shaft leading to the home of the leader of hamas’s northern brigade, Ahmed Ghandour.

According to reports, the tunnels are the latest in a series of underground networks destroyed by the idf since the hamas offensive into southern Israel on October 7. Reportedly, other tunnels dismantled by the idf who say their ground offensive is the only way to defeat hamas include electricity and communications lines. According to a report, some shafts led from hamas leaders’ offices and homes.

According to reports, the democratic unionist party ruled out the prospect of a deal to restore Stormont before Christmas. Reportedly, according to the dup the protocol should be replaced by arrangements that restore northern Ireland’s place within the uk internal market. According to a report, a vote of consent for eu protocol is scheduled for December 2024.

According to a report, the u.s. have failed to approve a 600 billion aid package to Ukraine but there is a possibility they will supply them with air defense missiles requested by Ukraine for months. Reportedly, Japan are supplying the u.s. with patriot air defense missiles following a request from the u.s. that Japan change its military export rules.

According to the report, previously Japan only allowed for military components to be sent from Japan to the nation the manufacturing license originated, but under new rules can export finished goods. Reportedly, Japan is also manufacturing artillery shells made under license from british aerospace, the finished product can now be exported to the u.k.

According to a report, a u.n. resolution concerning aid to Gaza is to be voted upon. Reportedly, the resolution which does not call for a ceasefire has been criticised; currently, Israel monitors all aid to Gaza and trucks have been bringing aid from Egypt for weeks, but not enough. According to the report, the united arab emirates who will be vacating their seat on the u.n. council at the end of the month seem to be in favour of a u.n. monitoring of aid in the region.

Reportedly, Israel has issued an evacuation order to the Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza and another israeli hostage has died in captivity.

According to a report, the sudanese city of Wad Mani has been taken by the rdf. Reportedly, more than 300,000 have fled the area, probably due to the fighting; the Sudanese army has been criticised for their withdrawal. According to the report, the rsf announced that they have captured the entire Geriza state; they are believed to control nearly 70% of the capital, Khartoum along with most of the western Darfur region.

Reportedly, war erupted in Sudan when the soon to be rapid defence force broke away from the sudanese army due to an internationally backed transitional plan. Possibly refers to the controversy of moving people out of Darfur to accommodate oil fields.

Joseph, the father of Jesus was an essene. The essenes were believed to have originated during the period of the greek empire in Israel, as a result of greeks superceding jewish high priests by intermarrying. Reportedly, essenes saw themselves as the true remnant of Israel, had a conservative approach to jewish law and observed a strict hierarchy, favouring priests over lay people. They are reported to have descended from the highest order of priests. In common with Zoroastrianism their dogma was dualistic, that is a belief in the conflict between the benevolent and the manevolent.

According to reports, essenes lived throughout Judaea in various settlements or in the community and were hereditary, being descendants of David. They were allowed to marry in order to procure children, for the future of the movement, but were advised to wait three years in order to get to know a girl.

Essenes were the writers of the dead sea scrolls which contain handwritten texts from early biblical books. Reportedly, the scrolls were discovered between 1946-56 in caves near Ein Feshka, about 3 kilometres south of Qumran, Samaria. They were believed to have been hidden from roman soldiers during the first roman-jewish war (66-74 ordinary time). The entire Qumran community of essenes were killed by roman soldiers when they would not renounce their faith. According to a report, the movement died out following the war.

Mary was also an essene and according to a source was born of rich parents. She was said to have descended on her father’s side from the tribe of Judah and on her mother’s side from Levi. She was presented to the temple at a young age, her parents may have died when she was young. According to sources, she was betrothed to Joseph at a young age and became pregnant before they were married so the other women in the village wouldn’t talk to her. One source says she was 15 years when she gave birth to Jesus. They had other children. According to the book of Mark, Jesus had four brothers.