Day: October 15, 2025
Hamas hands over hostage bodies after Israel threatens aid cut https://t.co/W59tXhrY0q pic.twitter.com/nNqCEVJhRZ
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Georgian Dream Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has canceled a planned meeting with Elina Valtonen, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Finnish Foreign Minister, after she attended the ongoing nightly rally on Tbilisi’s Rustaveli Avenue.
“Yesterday, for participating in an illegal rally and making false statements, the Prime Minister canceled the planned meeting with the Finnish Foreign Minister,” the GD government administration said in a Facebook post on the morning of October 15.
Valtonen, who is visiting Georgia as part of her South Caucasus tour, appeared late on October 14 at an ongoing pro-EU and anti-government rally on Rustaveli Avenue, where demonstrators have gathered nightly outside Parliament for more than 320 days.
“Peaceful protestors have gathered in front of the Parliament Building in Tbilisi, Georgia, to voice their concern over the repressive direction of their country. They have every right to democracy, to freedom of expression, and basic human rights. We are here to support them,” Valtonen wrote on X, posting a video filmed from the blocked avenue.
Earlier, Valtonen met with GD Foreign Minister Maka Botchorishvili. At a joint press conference, she expressed concern over the Georgian government’s growing pressure on civil society and democratic institutions, among others.
Valtonen is also scheduled to visit the occupation line today.
More to follow…
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Israel previously said the flow of aid would be cut by half and Rafah crossing would not open as planned due to delay in returning bodies of hostages
Israel limits aid into Gaza in dispute over hostages’ remains
Donald Trump has said that Hamas will be forced to disarm after questions swirled around the group’s status following the signing of a ceasfire deal meant to bring an end to the war in Gaza.
Speaking with reporters on Tuesday, Trump said:
If they don’t disarm, we will disarm them and it will happen quickly and perhaps violently.
[Hamas] are standing because they do want to stop the problems, and they’ve been open about it, and we gave them approval for a period of time.
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Legislative change comes five years after treaty suspended in response to city’s crackdown on pro-democracy activists
Exiled Hong Kong dissidents say they fear UK government plans to restart some extraditions with the city could put them in greater danger, saying Hong Kong authorities will use any pretext to pursue them.
An amendment to UK extradition laws was passed on Tuesday. It came more than five years after the UK and several other countries suspended extradition treaties with Hong Kong in response to the government crackdown on the pro-democracy movement, and its imposition of a Beijing-designed national security law.
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