Wed 24 January 2024: A Russian military cargo plane crashed in the border region of Belgorod, according to Russia’s defence ministry. According to the ministry, the plane was transporting 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war who were to be swapped. The ministry further stated that the Ilyushin Il-76 was carrying six crew members and three more […]
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Several pro-regime Syrians residing in Europe have been convicted of war crimes in many EU courts [Getty/file photo] Wed 24 January 2024: A district court in The Hague has convicted a former member of a Syrian pro-government armed group for complicity in torture and illegal arrest in Syria and sentenced him to 12 years […]
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Wed 24 January 2024: NATO has signed a 1.1 billion euro contract for 155mm artillery ammunition, the alliance said on Tuesday, with part of the shells to be supplied to Ukraine after complaints a shortage of munitions was hampering its war efforts. “The war in Ukraine has become a battle of ammunition,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said after a signing ceremony […]
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Tue 23 January 2024: Canada will cut international students coming to the country by 35%, the country’s immigration minister announced Monday. The government hopes the temporary two-year cap will hit at the “bad actors” who are gouging post-secondary international students with exorbitant tuition fees and allowing too many students to flood courses. The cap will […]
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Tue 23 January 2024: For the first time in a quarter-century, the economic divide between the global North and South has expanded. This alarming trend is highlighted in the recent “Inequality Inc.” report by Oxfam, an international organization dedicated to combating inequality. The Global North, comprising regions such as the US, Canada, Western Europe, and East Asia, […]
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Tue 23 January 2024: Ariel was a six-legged spaniel puppy who was found abandoned in a British car park. She had surgery to remove her additional limbs. A successful fundraising drive that followed her rescue in the Pembroke town centre back in September of last year made the treatment possible. The dog is being cared for by […]
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Mon 22 January 2024: Storm Isha caused travel disruptions on Monday, leaving tens of thousands of people without power in the UK and Ireland due to its strong winds and heavy rain. Northeast England had gusts as high as 99 mph (159 kph) as the entire United Kingdom was under a weather alert for the […]
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Mon 22 January 2024: The largest Jewish newspaper in Germany, Jüdische Allgemeine has published an opinion piece on Thursday, effectively endorsing genocide in Gaza, amid Israel’s ongoing war against the Palestinian people in the densely populated enclave. In the five-paragraph piece entitled “The civilians in Gaza are not innocent,” the “freelance journalist” Tobias Huch said that “If […]
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Mon 22 January 2024: Pope Francis on Sunday called for the release of hostages, including six nuns, who were kidnapped on a bus in Haiti on Friday, and said he was praying for social harmony in the country. Armed gunmen hijacked a bus in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince with at least six nuns on board and […]
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Mon 22 January 2024: Russia’s Leningrad area, which has a fuel export terminal that was disrupted on Sunday by a fire that Ukrainian media alleged was caused by a Ukrainian drone assault, declared that important infrastructure had been placed on high alert, Reuters reported, “In all districts of the Leningrad region, a high alert regime […]
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