Fri 09 June 2023: British fighter jets were dispatched twice in the past 24 hours to intercept three Russian aircraft that were flying close to NATO airspace, the UK claimed on Friday. Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft and Su-27 fighter jet were intercepted on Thursday evening by Swedish Air Force Gripens and Royal Air Force Typhoons […]
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A satellite image shows possible planned location of UAV manufacturing plant in Russia’s Alabuga Special Economic Zone, as evidence of new Russian-Iran cooperation, in this handout acquired June 9, 2023. White House/Handout via REUTERS Fri 09 June 2023: The White House said, on Friday, that Russia appeared to be deepening its defence cooperation with […]
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Fri 09 June 2023: Stella Assange, his wife, announced on Thursday that Julian Assange would file a second appeal with the UK’s High Court after learning that another judge had denied his prior request, clearing the way for the transfer of the WikiLeaks founder to the US. “On Tuesday next week my husband Julian Assange […]
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Fri 09 June 2023: The UN children’s agency, UNICEF, said on Thursday that over 13.6 million children are in urgent need of life-saving humanitarian support in Sudan, the highest number ever recorded in the country amid intense fighting, Anadolu Agency reports. The conflict-hit African nation has been engulfed by violence for weeks between the Sudanese Army and […]
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A dog rescued by the emergency services in Kherson region, south Ukraine. Photo by Serhii Korovayny Fri 09 June 2023: Ukraine’s security service says it has intercepted a telephone call proving a Russian sabotage group blew up the Kakhovka dam. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) posted a short audio clip on its Telegram channel […]
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Fri 09 June 2023: Images of orange, hazy skies across Canada and parts of US fuel calls to tackle climate crisis making wildfires worse. Montreal, Canada – “Do you smell smoke?” That’s the question people in Canada have been asking each other this week as hundreds of wildfires are burning in what has been described as an […]
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Fri 09 June 2023: Saudi Arabia and the United States have called on Western governments to repatriate their citizens who are among the captured Daesh fighters detained in north-east Syria. At a meeting of the international anti-Daesh coalition in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on Thursday, the Kingdom’s Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, stated that […]
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Fri 09 June 2023: EU nations called out for adopting definition that conflates anti-Semitism with criticism of Israel and fosters ‘anti-Palestinian racism’. The European Union’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism has led to widespread restrictions on the rights of assembly and freedom of expression, according to research from […]
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Wed 07 June 2023: A group of international parliamentarians and academics have said the Union government’s reaction to the wrestlers’ protest against BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh “sends a clear message” that “rebellious women will be punished, the ruling class will be protected at all costs and dissent will not be tolerated”. In the […]
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Thu 08 June 2023: A “very unhealthy” air quality alert was issued for Washington, DC on Thursday over the impact of ongoing Canadian wildfires. “During a Code Purple alert, the air quality is very unhealthy,” DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management said on Twitter, citing airnow.com, which provides information about air quality. All age groups […]
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