Palestinian worshipers rally at Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyards following Friday prayers. Photo: Al Qastal News Fri 07 Apr 2023: The Israeli army’s chief of staff, Herzl Halevi, has ordered the mobilisation of Israeli reserve forces, with an emphasis on air defenses and the Air Force reserves. Halevi’s decision came after he convened a situation assessment meeting […]
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Fri 07 Apr 2023: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said joining Muslims as they fast during Islam’s holy month of Ramadan showed him “the true face of Islam.” “The sense of peace, the sense of solidarity, the sense of generosity that I witnessed in the communities hosting refugees, and also the resilience, the courage of the refugees themselves was extremely inspiring,” he said. His remarks came […]
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Fri 07 Apr 2023: The head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service claimed on Tuesday that the situation in Ukraine has taken the features of a “religious war” amid recent actions taken by Kyiv with regard to the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery. “We understand that for Western capitals and Kyiv authorities, there are practically no red lines in […]
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Thu 06 Apr 2023: Apple CEO Tim Cook does not want people to use iPhones too much as the company is not “incentivised” for that, but rather empower them to use the devices to perform things they could not do earlier. Cook, who appeared on the cover page of GQ for its first-ever ‘Global Creativity […]
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Thu 06 Apr 2023: The head of Russia’s private Wagner militia said on Thursday that Ukrainian forces were not abandoning the city of Bakhmut but that, even if they did, he would need more support from the regular military before trying to advance further. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had on Wednesday raised the prospect of a […]
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Thu 06 Apr 2023: Alauda Aeronautics hopes the world’s first flying car race will make futuristic vehicles an everyday reality. Adelaide, Australia – Since the 1980s, inventors have been promising to turn the flying cars of Back to the Future and The Jetsons into reality. Companies including Toyota, AirBus, Hyundai, and Kitty Hawk, a project backed […]
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Thu 06 Apr 2023: Pope Francis, who appeared fully recovered from bronchitis, began an intense four-day period leading up to Easter on Thursday, urging priests to avoid fomenting division in the Church and instead seek harmony if they wanted to win back lapsed faithful. Francis, 86, was admitted to the hospital last week for bronchitis […]
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Thu 06 Apr 2023: Pakistan’s foreign office has criticised British Home Secretary Suella Braverman for “discriminatory and xenophobic” comments after she said that British Pakistani men “hold cultural values at odds with British values”. In an interview with Sky News on Monday, Braverman also alleged British Pakistani men worked in child abuse rings or networks […]
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Wed 05 Apr 2023: Britain confirmed plans, Tuesday, to hold hundreds of asylum seekers and migrants in a barge docked off the Dorset coast in southern England, despite intra-party opposition and legal action threats by residents, Anadolu News Agency reports. Media reports said that the barge, called the “Bibby Stockholm“, has been leased by the government for […]
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Wed 05 Apr 2023: The Red Cross announced Tuesday that it would cut 1,500 jobs over the next 12 months in a drive to slash costs due to to a funding crunch. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said an expected drop in humanitarian assistance budgets over the next two years was forcing it […]
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