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| August 2025 |
George Galloway
George Galloway announced his intention to contest the 2026 Scottish Parliament election as the Workers Party candidate for Glasgow Southside, also standing as a list candidate for the Glasgow region.
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| June 2025 |
George Galloway
George Galloway renounced his previous opposition to Scottish independence, publicly supporting the right of Scots to self-determination and calling for a second independence referendum.
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| June 2025 |
George Galloway
Participated as a speaker at the Forum of the Future 2050 in Moscow, a conference organized by Konstantin Malofeev, alongside figures like Elon Musk's father, Sergey Lavrov, Jeffrey Sachs, and Alex Jones.
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| 2025 |
George Galloway
Galloway stated that he no longer wants to be described as a leftist, further emphasizing his political transformation.
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| 2025 |
Fossil fuel phase-out
Norway plans to ban sales of new internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, requiring all new cars to be electric vehicles or powered by clean, non-emitting sources.
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| January 1 2025 |
Kamel Maghur
Inaugural Kamel Maghur Short Story Award to be announced on the anniversary of his birth.
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| 2024 |
Kamel Maghur
His daughter Azza Maghur established the Kamel Maghur Library in Tripoli, featuring over 3,000 multilingual titles.
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| 2024 |
George Galloway
Galloway lost his seat at the general election.
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| 2024 |
George Galloway
George Galloway identified as socially conservative, reflecting a significant shift in his political views.
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| 2024 |
George Galloway
Writing for The Guardian, Michael Chessum noted that Galloway's politics had evolved in the late 2010s to embrace Scottish unionism and social conservatism, highlighting his connections to the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist) during the early years of the Workers Party.
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| 2024 |
George Galloway
Reaffirmed his opposition to abortion, citing his Catholic faith, and restated opposition to euthanasia in an interview with The Daily Telegraph.
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| October 2024 |
George Galloway
At the 16th BRICS summit, Galloway criticized the British press for 'hating Russia' and suggested there was more media freedom in Russia than in Britain.
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| October 2024 |
George Galloway
The High Court in Dublin ordered Twitter to pay Galloway's legal costs and requested both parties to submit sworn affidavits by January 30, 2025.
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| September 2024 |
George Galloway
Galloway made a comment on X suggesting he could potentially be persuaded to support Scottish independence, but not the Scottish National Party (SNP).
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| September 17 2024 | Visited Israel and warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against provoking a major escalation in Lebanon, just before a significant Hezbollah-related incident involving exploding communication devices across Lebanon and Syria. |
| July 15 2024 |
United States foreign policy in the Middle East
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the lawsuit against Biden's administration concerning Israel.
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| May 2024 | The International Olympic Committee extended Sheikh Ahmad's ban to 15 years, citing 'a betrayal of his oath as an IOC Member and the severity of the harm to the IOC's reputation'. |
| May 2024 |
George Galloway
Galloway described himself as socially conservative and faced accusations of 'blatant homophobia and opposition to LGBT rights' from the organization Momentum after expressing his views on teaching children about gay relationships.
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| May 23 2024 |
George Galloway
Galloway confirmed he would run for re-election in Rochdale at the 2024 general election.
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| March 2024 |
George Galloway
Galloway was sworn in as an MP while holding a Bible, reaffirming his identification as a practicing Roman Catholic in a subsequent interview.
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| February 2024 |
George Galloway
Galloway was sworn into parliament, choosing to make a religious oath while holding a bible and swearing allegiance to King Charles and his heirs.
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| February 2024 |
George Galloway
Galloway was elected in the Rochdale by-election, winning almost 40% of the vote and overturning a Labour majority of 9,668.
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| February 2024 |
George Galloway
In his election speech, Galloway criticized Keir Starmer's role in the Israel–Hamas conflict, indicating that he would pay a high price for it.
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| February 13 2024 |
United States foreign policy in the Middle East
U.S. Congress approved a bill providing approximately $19.3 billion in military aid to Israel, including support for military operations, air defense, and the Iron Beam defense system.
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| January 2024 |
George Galloway
George Galloway announced that he would stand in the Rochdale by-election for the Workers Party of Britain.
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| January 31 2024 |
United States foreign policy in the Middle East
United States District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed a lawsuit against Biden's administration regarding Israel's actions in Gaza.
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| January 18 2024 | Conviction publicly announced following the conclusion of Ahmad's tenure as Minister of Defence. |
| January 17 2024 | Concluded his term as Kuwait's Minister of Defense. |
| 2023 |
Fossil fuel phase-out
The IMF estimated that removing fossil fuel subsidies could help limit global heating to the Paris Agreement goal of substantially less than 2 °C.
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| 2023 | Moved from special presidential coordinator for global infrastructure and energy security to deputy assistant to the president and senior advisor for energy and investment at the White House. |
| December 18 2023 | Geneva Court of Appeal upheld Ahmad's forgery conviction. |
| October 13 2023 | The IOC ethics commission declared that the 2023 OCA elections must be annulled due to Sheikh Ahmad's interference, stating that his brother's candidacy 'should have been declared ineligible from the outset'. |
| October 7 2023 |
United States foreign policy in the Middle East
Hamas-led attack on Israel triggered the Gaza war, leading to significant U.S. involvement and military aid discussions.
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| October 7 2023 |
George Galloway
Following the Hamas attack on Israel, Galloway publicly disputed reports from the Israeli government regarding casualties, claiming that a significant portion of the fatalities were from the Israeli Defense Forces and labeling those who supported the official narrative as 'war criminals'.
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| September 2023 | The Wall Street Journal revealed internal ExxonMobil documents showing Tillerson and executives sought to diminish public concern about climate change after the company's 2006 acknowledgment of fossil fuels' impact on climate change. |
| August 2023 | US court documents revealed Ahmad was implicated in a bribery and racketeering scheme connected to the State of Qatar, involving allegations of using a shell company (Beriza Limited) to make payments and potentially influence FIFA officials during Qatar's World Cup bid. |
| July 2023 | The head of the IOC ethics commission sent warning letters to Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad, urging him to avoid interference in the upcoming Olympic Council of Asia elections in Bangkok. |
| July 27 2023 | The International Olympic Committee banned Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad for 3 years after finding he had an 'undeniable impact' on OCA elections in support of his brother Talal Al-Fahad's candidacy. |
| June 18 2023 | Appointed as Kuwait's Minister of Defense. |
| 2022 |
Fossil fuel phase-out
A Guardian investigation revealed that major fossil fuel companies continue to plan significant investments in new fossil fuel production projects that would exceed internationally agreed temperature limits.
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| 2022 |
Fossil fuel phase-out
During COP27 in Egypt, Saudi Arabian representatives pushed to block international calls for reducing global oil consumption, preventing a consensus on fossil fuel phase-out in the summit's final statement.
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| 2022 | Led Biden's Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment, launched at the G7 summit to coordinate international clean energy supply chain. |
| 2022 |
George Galloway
Galloway dismissed allegations of the persecution of Uighur Muslims in China, claiming there were no internment camps and referring to the facilities as 're-education centres' aimed at steering extremists away from violence.
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| 2022 |
George Galloway
Jamie Blackett ended their political alliance, All for Unity, due to disagreements over Galloway's stance on Ukraine.
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| 2022 |
George Galloway
Galloway suggested that the Bucha massacre was staged, leading to significant backlash, including accusations of him being an apologist for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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| 2022 |
George Galloway
Galloway concluded his tenure as a presenter on RT.
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| 2022 |
George Galloway
In early 2022, Galloway dismissed claims regarding an impending Russian invasion of Ukraine, asserting that he was correct when he stated, 'I told you it wasn't. You were wrong. I was right.' His comments came just days before the actual invasion occurred.
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| 2022 |
George Galloway
Scottish Liberal Democrats leader, Alex Cole-Hamilton, criticized Galloway, calling him 'an apologist for Russian expansionist aggression' due to his association with RT.
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