Sun 18 February 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin and his associates will not go unpunished if the death of Alexei Navalny, announced by the Russian prison service on Friday, is confirmed, the Kremlin critic’s wife said. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Yulia Navalnaya said she was skeptical about the news of her husband’s death because it […]
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Russia’s Nauka module undergoes launch preparations at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Roscosmos (FILE PHOTO) Sun 18 February 2024: Russia is developing a space-based anti-satellite weapon that is “troubling” but poses no immediate threat, the White House has said. National security spokesman John Kirby said US intelligence officials had information that Russia had developed […]
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Sat 18 February 2024: Stella Assange, the wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, said her husband is already suffering from many health problems and that “he will die” if he is extradited to the US by the UK government. “If he gets extradited he will be put in a hell hole that is […]
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Sat 17 February 2024: The United States is preparing to send more bombs and other weapons to Israel even as it pushes for a ceasefire in the war on Gaza and has said it opposes Tel Aviv’s plans for a ground invasion in southern Rafah where more than half the enclave’s displaced population is trapped. […]
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Sat 17 February 2024: Following two days of debate and weeks of public reaction, Greece legalizes same-sex marriage, despite opposition from the church and some lawmakers. Same-sex couples will now be able to legally adopt children. Greece is the first Orthodox Christian country to legalise same-sex marriage. Parliament passed the legislation late Thursday, with 176 […]
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Sat 17 February 2024: London, United Kingdom – For Sophia Naqvi, a longtime Labour Party activist, the lightbulb moment came just days into the current Middle East crisis. On October 11, four days after Hamas killed Israeli citizens and took many captive, Israel was responding with an aggressive campaign of air attacks and blockades. The Labour […]
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Sat 17 February 2024: Two years since the Russia-Ukraine war started, the human cost is insurmountable, with no end in sight, and millions of Ukrainians are struggling under increasing debt, the International Red Cross said Friday. After two years of fighting, it is “unbelievable” that it has not stopped, and many people still need a […]
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Fri 16 February 2024: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has slammed the years-long United States and British legal pursuit of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ahead of a court ruling on his appeal against extradition next week. Albanese said on Thursday that the country as a whole shared the view that “enough is enough”. Assange, 52, […]
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Fri 16 February 2024: The Russian penitentiary service said on Friday that opposition figure Alexey Navalny died in a prison colony where he was serving his sentence. The service said in a statement that Navalny lost consciousness after a walk in the Arctic Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, where the colony is located. The ward immediately called […]
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Thu 15 February 2024: Human rights advocate Moazzam Begg returns to Afghanistan to battle demons and champion justice in the shadow of war. Haunted by nightmares of torture and abuse, British human rights campaigner Moazzam Begg decides to return to Afghanistan to confront the horrors of his past. Moazzam was detained at the notorious Bagram […]
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