Sun 10 September 2023: Any initiative to revive the Black Sea grain deal that excludes Russia will not be sustainable, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, reports Anadolu Agency. “A process for the grain issue that excludes Russia is unlikely to be sustainable,” Erdogan said at a news conference after the G-20 summit in […]
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Sun 10 September 2023: Vladimir Putin won’t be detained in Brazil if he visits the Group of 20 summit in Rio de Janeiro in 2019, according to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. In an interview with the Firstpost news show at the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Delhi on Saturday, said Putin […]
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Sun 10 September 2023: UN special rapporteur says he is ‘deeply disturbed’ by migrant workers’ accounts of abuse and exploitation in Canada. Montreal, Canada – Canada’s temporary foreign worker programmes are a “breeding ground” for modern forms of slavery, a United Nations expert has warned, about a year after Jamaican farmworkers in the province of Ontario denounced their […]
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Sat 09 September 2023: Australia has unveiled regulations requiring internet search engines to crack down on child sexual abuse material created by artificial intelligence. The online safety code announced on Friday will require services such as Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and Yahoo to take “appropriate steps” to prevent the spread of child exploitation material, including “synthetic” […]
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Sat 09 September 2023: The UN children’s agency UNICEF warned Thursday that children are migrating through Latin America and the Caribbean in record numbers, accounting for a larger share of the migrant population than other regions in the world. ”Gang violence, instability, poverty and climate-related events are, alarmingly, gripping the region and pushing more children […]
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Fri 08 September 2023: Following reports that China banned government employees from using iPhones or any other foreign gadgets for work purposes or bringing them into the office, Apple’s market worth has decreased by around $200 billion. Apple’s stock dropped by roughly 3% on Thursday, and it has lost 6.4% in the past two days. […]
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Fri 08 September 2023: The French Supreme Court declared on Thursday that the government’s ban on Muslim women wearing abayas is legal, local media reported. The Council of State said it had rejected an appeal by a Muslim rights group against the government’s ban on abaya, a loose-fitting, full-length robe used by certain Muslim students, […]
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Thu 07 September 2023: The Russian rouble fell again against the dollar in late trade on Thursday, staying above three-week lows after just a little respite from Wednesday’s revelation of a central bank plan to accelerate foreign currency sales. The rouble was 0.3% weaker versus the dollar at 98.43 and little changed against the euro […]
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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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