META SHUTS DOWN 4,800 ACCOUNTS OVER AN ALLEGED CHINESE INFLUENCE CAMPAIGN

Fri 01 December 2023: Meta has removed nearly 4,800 fake accounts that were part of a China-based influence campaign aimed at spreading polarising content about United States politics ahead of the 2024 presidential election, the tech giant has announced. The influence operation was one of two China-based campaigns detected by Meta, which owns Facebook and […]

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EU COUNTRIES’ 2023 MILITARY SPENDING SET TO REACH RECORD $295B

  German soldiers demonstrates the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) defense system, Jammer HP 47, at the German Defense Ministry. Fri 01 December 2023: The total defense spending of individual member countries of the European Union is on track to reach a record 270 billion euros ($295 billion) in 2023, as the Russia-Ukraine war rolls on, European Council […]

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RUSSIA’S SUPREME COURT BANS ‘LGBTQ MOVEMENT’ AS ‘EXTREMIST’

Thu 30 October 2023: Russia’s Supreme Court has ruled that LGBTQ activists should be designated as “extremists”, in a move that representatives of gay and transgender people fear will lead to arrests and prosecutions. The court ruled on Thursday that “the international LGBT public movement and its subdivisions” were extremist, and issued a “ban on […]

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PUTIN WON’T MAKE PEACE IN UKRAINE BEFORE 2024 U.S. ELECTION -U.S. OFFICIAL

Thu 30 October 2023: Russian President Vladimir Putin will not make peace in Ukraine before he knows the results of the November 2024 U.S. election, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday, amid concerns that a potential victory for former President Donald Trump could upend Western support for Kyiv. Trump, who is seeking […]

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HAMAS IS FAR FROM FALLING APART IN SOUTHERN GAZA: FORMER ISRAELI PREMIER

Thu 30 October 2023: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak stated that the Hamas movement is far from falling apart in the southern Gaza Strip and retains its capabilities in the north. In an article published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Tuesday, Barak wrote, “About two months into the war, Israel is nearing a […]

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PAKISTAN’S EX-PREMIER KHAN STEPS DOWN FROM TOP PARTY POST

Thu 30 October 2023: Pakistan’s incarcerated former Prime Minister Imran Khan stepped down as chairman of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party amid court battles, his lawyer and a senior party official said on Wednesday. Addressing a news conference in the capital Islamabad, Barrister Ali Zafar said that Khan’s lead lawyer, Barrister Gohar Khan will act […]

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HENRY KISSINGER: NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING ‘WARMONGER’ HAS DIED AT AGE 100

Thu 30 October 2023: New York, United States – Few Nobel Peace Prize winners are called warmongers, but the gravelly-voiced, enigmatic diplomat Henry Kissinger was. The contradictions of Kissinger, who died on Wednesday at home in Connecticut at age 100, do not end there. An academic who became a celebrity, Kissinger was a Jewish teenager who fled the […]

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TENS OF THOUSANDS DISPLACED BY FLOODING IN HORN OF AFRICA: REPORT

Wed 29 October 2023: Nearly 270 people have been killed and more than 900,000 displaced by floods caused by ongoing rains in the Horn of Africa, said the Climate Prediction and Applications Center (ICPAC) of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development Wednesday. Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia are the worst hit by the current El Nino rains […]

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