Sat 04 March 2023: Guterres says wealthy nations should provide $500bn a year to help the most deprived states ‘trapped in vicious cycles’ boost their economies. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has condemned rich countries and energy giants for throttling poor nations with “predatory” interest rates and crippling fuel prices. Speaking on the first day […]
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Sat 04 March 2023: North Africa was once known as the “breadbasket” due to its favourable climate and significant arable land along the Mediterranean coast. This was especially true at the time of the Roman Empire, when it was Rome’s primary source of food. Yet in the modern era, North Africa has experienced a decline in agriculture due to […]
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Fri 03 March 2023: Turkiye’s President, on Friday, said that over 214,000 buildings had collapsed or were heavily damaged by last month’s devastating earthquakes in the country’s south, Anadolu News Agency reports. “At this moment, we’ve determined 608,000 independent sections in 214,000 buildings that have collapsed or are severely damaged and will be demolished,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan […]
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Fri 03 March 2023: Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliyev, on Thursday said that a “new world order is taking shape” as he addressed the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Contact Group meeting in the capital, Baku, Anadolu News Agency reports. “Now the world is witnessing the most serious East-West confrontation since the end of the Cold War, with repercussions for […]
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Fri 03 March 2023: More journalists were killed in 2022 in Mexico than in any other year. The murders of Lourdes Maldonado Lopez and Margarito Martínez last January were the latest in a string of killings that have largely gone unsolved. As rights groups continue to call for government action, we are revisiting our episode with Mexican […]
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Fri 03 March 2023: Activists, lawyers and journalists linked to WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange are being subjected to extensive surveillance and intimidation, Der Spiegel reported. Individuals have been hacked, tracked, burglarized, threatened with death, and thrown in jails for years on dubious charges. While the identity of the perpetrators has yet to be conclusively proven, victims […]
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Fri 03 March 2023: Ukrainian forces clinging to the eastern city of Bakhmut have dug new trenches in an attempt to hold back Russian attackers. Russian forces have been attacking Bakhmut in Donetsk province for months, sometimes in waves and the site has become one of the bloodiest battles of the war. “Fighting is going […]
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Fri 03 March 2023: Tech giant search Google has announced various updates to its Chrome web browser that will increase the battery life on MacBooks, extending the usage users can get from a single charge. With improved systems like memory compression and JavaScript timers, search MacBook users can now browse the web via Chrome and can watch YouTube videos for a […]
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Thu 02 March 2023: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have met briefly at a meeting of top diplomats from the Group of 20 (G20) nations in the first high-level meeting in months between the two countries. US officials said Blinken and Lavrov chatted for roughly 10 minutes on […]
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Thu 02 March 2023: Protesters clashed with police in the Greek capital Athens, after a passenger train carrying more than 350 people, collided with a freight train on Tuesday evening, in Tempi, leaving at least 46 people dead and scores injured. The death toll is expected to rise. The Greek transport minister resigned in the […]
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