Thu 09 October 2023: Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has slammed the European Commission’s annual report assessing its long-stalled bid to join the European Union, saying it was unjust and biased. The report, published on Wednesday by the EU’s executive arm, accused Ankara of “serious backsliding” on democratic standards, the rule of law, human rights […]
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Wed 08 October 2023: The World Food Programme (WFP) warned Monday that over 1.6 million children are expected to suffer from malnutrition in 2024 and children in South Sudan will be the worst affected. Citing data from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the WFP said that “more than 1.6 million children under five […]
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Wed 08 October 2023: Around 3.2 million adults have missed some type of major bill payment in the last two years, according to new research. The Mortgage Lender has found six percent of the adult population in the UK have missed either a mortgage payment, debt repayment, rent or energy bill, The Express reported. This comes amid the cost of […]
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G7 foreign ministers meet in Tokyo. Wed 08 October 2023: G7 leaders have met in Tokyo for meetings which have been dominated by the Israel-Hamas war. Foreign minsters, including the US’ Antony Blinken, have just issued a joint statement condemning Hamas – and, as expected – have supported Israel’s right to self-defence and called for […]
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Mon 06 October 2023: The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported on Friday that global food prices have dropped for the third consecutive month in October, although at a slower pace. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 120.3 points in October, reflecting a decrease of 0.5% from the previous month. The slight decline in […]
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Mon 06 October 2023: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on the U.S. to provide more funding to help his forces counter Russia, and invited former U.S. President Donald Trump to fly in to see the scale of the conflict for himself. Zelenskiy said American soldiers could eventually be pulled into a greater European conflict with […]
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Sun 05 October 2023: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has publicly mocked speculation about alleged doubles of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Now experts are puzzling over whether there are three or four and who it is we see every day,” Peskov said to young people in Moscow on Saturday, referring to discussions on social networks about […]
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Sun 05 October 2023: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has denied that Ukraine’s war with Russia had reached a “stalemate”, pushing back at suggestions Western leaders were lobbying for peace talks. The sprawling front line between the two warring sides has barely moved in almost a […]
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Sat 04 October 2023: U.S. and European officials have spoken to the Ukrainian government about what possible peace negotiations with Russia might entail to end the war, NBC quoted an unidentified senior U.S. official and one former U.S. official as saying. The war in Ukraine, now in its 21st month, has killed or wounded hundreds […]
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Fri 03 October 2023: Kyiv on Thursday named Swiss food giant Nestle as a “sponsor of war” over the Kit Kat-maker’s continued operations in Russia. Hundreds of Western firms quit the Russian market following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February last year, and Kyiv has not shied away from publicly criticising those that have remained. […]
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