Category: News Desk

Fri 06 October 2023: Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her British counterpart Rishi Sunak have vowed to fight “illegal” migration to Europe, describing the issue as a humanitarian crisis, with shipwrecks of unsafe boats claiming more than 2,000 lives this year. “Every week, thousands of migrants cross the Mediterranean to reach Italy, entering Europe […]

Fri 06 October 2023: Narges Mohammadi, a jailed Iranian women’s rights advocate, has won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all”, according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the awarding body. Hailing Mohammadi as a “freedom fighter”, […]

Fri 06 October 2023: The plane crash that killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, according to Vladimir Putin, was caused by hand grenades detonating inside the jet, and the Wagner chief may have been high on drugs. Making his first comments on the cause of the crash, Putin claimed the plane was blown up from inside, saying that […]

Fri 06 October 2023: Authorities in Tenerife have evacuated about 3,000 people from their homes overnight as a wildfire sparked by high temperatures and strong winds raged in a forest already ravaged by blaze in August.  Unseasonal hot weather plus strong winds has reignited a wildfire that originally began on Aug. 15. The blaze has […]

  Emergency workers search the rubble of a Russian rocket attack that killed at least 49 people in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine [Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP] Thu 05 October 2023: Ukrainian officials say at least 51 people have been killed after a Russian missile hit a supermarket in the Kupiansk district […]

Thu 05 October 2023: The recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature has been named as Norwegian playwright and author Jon Fosse, on Thursday. According to the Swedish Academy, which presented the award to Fosse, “his innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable,” was recognized. Fosse is renowned for his distinctive style […]

Thu 05 October 2023: World Teachers’ Day is celebrated on October 5th each year to recognize the important role that teachers play in education. This day aims to support and upskill teachers, especially in the face of challenges. UNESCO highlights the global shortage of teachers and advocates for better working conditions and support for educators. […]

Thu 05 October 2023: A new Reuters/Ipsos poll is showing that support is falling among Americans for supplying Ukraine with weapons, a warning sign for Kyiv, which relies heavily on US arms to fight Russia. The two-day poll, which closed on Wednesday, showed only 41 percent of respondents agreed with a statement that Washington “should […]