Wed 20 September 2023: Final touches are being made to a 16-foot steel sculpture dedicated to women who wear the hijab, which is set to be installed in Britain’s second largest city, Birmingham, next month. The one-tonne statue, “Strength of the Hijab” was commissioned by local charity Legacy West Midlands and is reportedly the first of its […]
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Tue 19 September 2023: France will only accept people facing political persecution and not irregular immigrants, Anadolu news agency has reported. “France will help Italy protect its borders to prevent more people from coming,” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told Europe 1 on Monday. “For those who have arrived, we must implement the most recent European rules that we […]
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Screen grab of strikes on supposed positions and equipment of the Armenian military by Azerbaijani Bayraktar TB2 UAVs. Tue 19 September 2023: Azerbaijan on Tuesday said it started “anti-terror activities” in Karabakh to uphold the provisions outlined in the 2020 trilateral peace agreement it signed with Russia and Armenia. The Defense Ministry in a […]
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Tue 19 September 2023: In a pay dispute, thousands of NHS consultants are on strike throughout England as the health system braces itself for more industrial action. On Wednesday, junior doctors will join consultants in staging the first-ever joint strike in the history of the NHS. Junior doctors, who have held 19 days of strike […]
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Tue 19 September 2023: America’s gross national debt exceeded $33 trillion for the first time on Monday, the New York Times reported. As the US Congress attempts to pass another temporary budget at the end of September to prevent a government shutdown when the 2023 fiscal year ends, the country’s debt has reached historic levels. […]
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Mon 18 September 2023: Italy’s Transport Minister and firebrand right-wing leader, Matteo Salvini, on Monday criticised Austria’s decision to intensify border controls between the two countries to stop migrants’ crossings, at a time when Rome is grappling with continuous arrivals of hundreds of seaborne migrants, Anadolu Agency reports. Matteo Salvini Leader of Lega Nord party. Vienna’s […]
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Mon 18 September 2023: Ramzan Kadyrov’s health is unknown to Russia, despite claims that the Chechen leader may be ill. On Monday, Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, told reporters, “We have no information on this.” “In any case, the presidential administration can hardly give out health certificates, so we have nothing to tell […]
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Mon 18 September 2023: The BBC said on Sunday that it was “urgently looking into the issues” raised by sexual assault allegations made against the broadcaster’s former employee, British comedian and actor Russell Brand, who rejects the allegations, Reuters reported. Brand, the ex-husband of American singer Katy Perry, worked on BBC radio shows between 2006 […]
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Members of the World Court listen as Russia begins presenting its objections against the jurisdiction of the World Court in a genocide case brought by Ukraine which claims Moscow falsely applied genocide law to justify its February 24, 2022 invasion, in The Hague, Netherlands, September 18, 2023. Mon 18 September 2023: Russia has called […]
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Mon 18 September 2023: NATO, in accordance with its new defense plans, can deploy 300,000 soldiers in the first month of a potential attack on the bloc, while the total number of the alliance’s military personnel could reach 3.5 million people, Chair of the NATO Military Committee Adm. Rob Bauer said on Saturday. “If we […]
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