The Knesset has allowed the government to suspend the broadcast of foreign TV channels on security grounds The Israeli government will ban Al Jazeera, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday, labeling the Qatar-based pan-Arab network a mouthpiece of Hamas. The statement came almost six months into Israel’s war in Gaza.

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A request from the US to Brazil, for the extradition to Washington of a suspected Russian foreign-intelligence agent currently serving a prison term there, has been denied, the Latin American nation’s Ministry of Justice and Public Security has announced.