Share Why we disrupted Annalena Baerbock's award speech on social media When, in late August, the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation announced that former German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was its 2026 medallist, we were stunned. The cognitive dissonance was striking, even if we had become used to this after years of unabashed hypocrisy within the world's most powerful institutions. According to the foundation's homepage, the medal is given to a person who "contributes to a more just, peaceful and environmentally sustainable world through valuable achievements in politics or research". As this year's medallist, Baerbock was invited to visit Uppsala University and deliver a lecture. Here was an event claiming to celebrate " compassion, humanism and commitment to international solidarity " while honouring the foreign minister of a government that approved 94 million euros ($102m) in arms exports to Israel in the span of three months in 2024.

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Fox News chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports that the U.S. military has shot down'dozens' of ballistic and cruise missiles as well as attack drones. International world leaders collectively condemned Iran's drone and missile attacks on Israel, calling for peace in the Middle East. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he condemned Iran's "reckless" attack against Israel. "I condemn in the strongest terms the Iranian regime's reckless attack against Israel," Sunak said in a statement. "Iran has once again demonstrated that it is intent on sowing chaos in its own backyard."