Thu 25 April 2024: Egypt welcomed home a 3,400-year-old statue depicting the head of King Ramses II after it was stolen and smuggled out of the country more than three decades ago, the country’s Antiquities Ministry said on Sunday. The statue is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo but not on display. The artefact […]
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Thu 25 April 2024: A top Hamas official, Khalil al-Hayya, has said the group was willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and transform into a political party if a two-state solution is implemented, The Associated Press news agency has reported. Al-Hayya, who made his comments in an interview […]
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Wed 24 April 2024: The United Arab Emirates’ cabinet has approved 2 billion dirhams ($544.60 million) to deal with damage to homes from last week’s storm, Prime Minister and Dubai ruler, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. The UAE suffered the heaviest rains this month in 75 years, causing widespread flooding which trapped residents in […]
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Wed 24 April 2024: Jamaica has announced that it has decided to officially recognise the State of Palestine following deliberations in the Cabinet on Monday. “Jamaica continues to advocate for a two-state solution as the only viable option to resolve the longstanding [Israeli-Palestinian] conflict, guarantee the security of Israel and uphold the dignity and rights […]
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Wed 24 April 2024: Tech workers are protesting against the use of artificial intelligence and other technologies by Israel in its war on Gaza. Google employees based in the United States have staged protests at the tech giant’s offices in New York City, California and Seattle to oppose a $1.2bn contract with the Israeli government. […]
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Image is for illustration purpose only Wed 24 April 2024: Astronomers have discovered the most massive stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy. This stellar giant was discovered by data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space observatory because it gives the companion star that orbits it a unique “wobbling” motion, according to […]
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Wed 24 April 2024: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Qatari Foreign Ministry have both dismissed reports alleging that Doha is planning to deport Hamas leaders, Anadolu reported. Speaking to journalists upon his return from Iraq, Erdogan said that he does not believe Qatar will take such a step, adding that the focus should be on […]
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Wed 24 April 2024: Tesla has announced a recall of 3,878 Cybertruck electric vehicles due to a factory defect, as reported by The Verge. Report from the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) stated that all pickup trucks produced from November 13, 2023, to April 4, 2024, are subject to return. The reason for the […]
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Wed 24 April 2024: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday that he has fully funded plans to increase defense spending every year to 2.5% of the country’s gross domestic product by 2030. At a news conference with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at a military base in Poland, Sunak declared Britain’s commitment to bolstering […]
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Wed 24 April 2024: In this episode of Centre Stage, the former president of Tunisia, Moncef Marzouki, explains how being a medical doctor has helped shape his political career, and why the Arab Spring has been a failure — “everywhere”. Moncef Marzouki was Tunisia’s first president after the Arab Spring uprisings. But less than a […]
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