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I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Saturday, the 9th of December,

these are our main stories.

The United States has vetoed a UN Security Council

resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza describing the measure as a recipe for

disaster. The Israeli military says Hamas has reorganized and is fighting for every

centimeter in the city of Han Yunus. In other news a former Prime Minister of

Burundi has been sentenced to life in prison for crimes including

using witchcraft to threaten the president's life. Also in this podcast

Shane was such a lovely person and he certainly represented in some ways the

diaspora across the world and we loved him.

A heartfelt final send-off for an Irish volunteer.

The United States has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution in New York calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

The US Representative Robert Wood said the draft text would allow Hamas to regroup and

continue to commit what he called terror attacks. He described the

resolution as a recipe for disaster which would plant the seeds for the next

war. And so we regretfully could not support it. We still cannot comprehend why the resolution's

authors declined to include language condemning Hamas horrific terrorist attack on Israel on October 7. an attack that

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