Thu 07 September 2023: The number of asylum applications continued to increase in the first six months of this year in EU countries, Norway and Switzerland, an EU agency announced yesterday according to the Anadolu news agency. “During the first half of 2023, applications for asylum rose to 519 000, a 28% increase compared to […]
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Thu 07 September 2023: Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, isn’t planning to participate by video call at this weekend’s Group of 20 summit, the Kremlin said on Thursday. Putin says he wants to stay in Moscow and focus on the conflict in Ukraine, thus he will not travel to New Delhi for the G20 summit of major industrialized nations. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will instead handle major matters related to the summit, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. In August, Putin did use video calls to take part in a BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China und South Africa) summit in Johannesburg. He did not […]
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Thu 07 September 2023: The Russian flag cannot be flown at next summer’s Olympics in Paris, the French president said on Wednesday. “Russia has no place (in the Olympics) at a time when it commits war crimes and deports children,” Emmanuel Macron told French sports daily L’Equipe. Macron expressed full trust in the Olympic committee’s […]
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Thu 07 September 2023: A Paris court on Tuesday rejected a plea to grant Julian Assange refuge filed earlier this year on his behalf by the Robin des Lois organisation, RT reported. French law requires “the individual applicant’s presence on the national territory or of the European Union” in order to make an asylum claim, […]
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Thu 07 September 2023: Rustem Umerov, who has taken Oleksii Reznikov’s place as the nation’s new defense minister, was authorized by the Ukrainian parliament on Wednesday. Yaroslav Zheleznyak, a Ukrainian politician, said on Telegram that 338 people voted in support of appointing Umerov. Reznikov’s resignation was approved by the parliament on Tuesday, who said “it […]
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Thu 07 September 2023: Concern over the rise in children and unaccompanied minors staying in Dutch emergency refugee shelters has been voiced by UNICEF, Anadolu Agency reported quoting local media on Wednesday. According to information from the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA), NL Times reported that as of the end of […]
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Wed 06 September 2023: Russian President Vladimir Putin alleged in a television interview on Tuesday, without citing evidence, that Western powers had installed Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who is Jewish, as president of Ukraine to cover up the glorification of Nazism. In seeking to justify its invasion of Ukraine, which it calls a “special military operation”, Moscow […]
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Wed 06 September 2023: Armenia’s prime minister has said his country’s policy of solely relying on Russia to guarantee its security was a strategic mistake because Moscow has been unable to deliver and is in the process of winding down its role in the wider region. In an interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica published […]
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Wed 06 September 2023: Georg Bätzing, chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference, stated that religion and church attendance are declining in Germany, DPA reported. The Church-leaving trend, which has been building for decades, “has gained massive momentum,” the top Catholic bishop told 500 guests at the St Michael’s Annual Reception in Berlin on Monday evening. […]
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Wed 06 September 2023: The United Kingdom government is set to designate Wagner, the Russian mercenary group, as a “terrorist” organisation. The BBC, the UK’s public service broadcaster, reported a draft order would be put forward in parliament to allow Wagner’s assets to be categorised as “terrorist” property and seized. The designation will make it […]
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