HIGH-LEVEL PARTICIPATION FROM 78 COUNTRIES AT ERDOĞAN’S INAUGURATION CEREMONY

Sat 03 June 2023: High-level officials from 78 countries will attend Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s swearing-in ceremony Saturday. The inauguration ceremony at the Presidential Complex will be attended by 21 heads of state, 13 prime ministers, as well as parliamentary and ministerial-level representatives, and representatives of international organizations, including the Organization of Turkic States […]

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RUSSIAN FORCES LAID MINES TO HARM HIS FIGHTERS, WAGNER BOSS PRIGOZHIN SAYS

Sat 03 June 2023: Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, has accused pro-Moscow forces of laying explosives to harm his fighters as they withdrew from Bakhmut as part of a months-long verbal battle with the Russian military leadership. Prigozhin made his claims on Friday, as Wagner mercenaries withdrew from the eastern Ukrainian […]

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CANADIAN CITY WHERE MUSLIM FAMILY KILLED GETS FUNDS TO FIGHT HATE

  Four members of the Afzaal family were killed when a driver ran them over with a pick-up truck in London, Ontario, on June 6, 2021, in what authorities said was an anti-Muslim attack. Sat 03  June 2023: Advocates welcome funding for anti-Islamophobia education campaign in London, Ontario, as ‘step towards positive change’. Muslim community […]

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BIONTECH, ONCOC4 ANNOUNCE PROMISING RESULTS FOR POTENTIAL LUNG CANCER ANTIBODY TRIAL

Sat 03 June 2023: German biotech firm BioNTech and US biopharmaceutical company OncoC4 announced on Friday that they had gotten promising results in a mid-stage lung cancer trial. “The jointly developed immunotherapy candidate was found to shrink tumors in close to 30% of participants,” the two companies said in a joint statement. They noted that […]

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CANADA FACING ‘DEEPLY CONCERNING’ WILDFIRE SEASON: OFFICIAL

Fri 02 June 2023: With 82 blazes burning out of control, Canada confronts a record early wildfire season that has scorched 2.7 million hectares. Canada is facing its most severe early wildfire season on record, with 211 wildfires burning and 82 classified as out of control, the country’s minister of public safety said. Speaking during a news […]

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FBI LAUNCHES FRESH PROBE INTO JULIAN ASSANGE CASE, DESPITE HOPES OF RELEASE

Fri 02 June 2023: Despite the Australian government’s diplomatic efforts to secure the release of Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, in the UK, US authorities have launched a new investigation into his case, Anadolu Agency reports. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has sought an interview with acclaimed novelist, Andrew O’Hagan, who remained close to Assange […]

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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL’S CIGAR THAT HE SMOKED NEARLY 80 YEARS AGO IS UP FOR AUCTION

Fri 02 June 2023: Sir Winston Churchill’s cigar, discovered in a glass jar 80 years ago, will be auctioned off. According to Sky News, Churchill, Britain’s wartime Prime Minister at the time, sent the half-smoked cigar to a consul general in Rabat, Morocco, in 1944. Hugh Stonehewer-Bird’s family stated he loved the cigar until his […]

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CHECHEN FIGHTERS SAID TO MOBILISE AS RUSSIAN CHILDREN FLEE BORDER

Thu 01 June 2023: In the past week, the governor of Russia’s Belgorod area announced the evacuation of minors due to continued cross-border attacks from Ukraine. It is possible that Ramzan Kadyrov’s Chechen fighters have been ordered to take aleading role in the war in Ukraine. The Wagner Group’s mercenary forces left the destroyed city […]

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