Thu 02 February 2023: Canada’s parliament on Wednesday unanimously passed a motion to take in 10,000 Uyghur refugees who fled China but are now facing pressure to return. The move builds on a February 2021 move by Canadian lawmakers to label Beijing’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in its northwestern Xinjiang territory as […]
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Thu 02 February 2023: Australia’s new five-dollar ($3.50) note will feature a design honouring the country’s Indigenous people, replacing the portrait of the British monarch that was previously on the note. The Reserve Bank of Australia, Australia’s central bank, said the design highlighting “the culture and history of the First Australians” would be developed in […]
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Thu 02 February 2023: A vote is set for Thursday on a resolution aimed at the Muslim-American congresswoman over her criticism of Israel. Washington, DC – In one of his first moves since becoming speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy is leading an effort to block Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from serving on the chamber’s […]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, goes to shake hands with former President of Chad Idriss Deby, during a joint news conference on November 25, 2018 (File Photo) Wed 01 February 2023: Chad will inaugurate on Thursday an embassy in Israel, building on bilateral relations that were established five years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]
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Wed 01 February 2023: A senior Ukrainian lawmaker has called for the United States to impose secondary sanctions on China and India if they keep buying Russian energy, urging total solidarity against Moscow’s invasion. On a visit to Washington, Oleksandr Merezhko, who heads the foreign affairs committee in Ukraine’s parliament, also called for greater ties […]
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Wed 01 February 2023: Up to half a million British teachers, university staff, train drivers and civil servants went on strike on Wednesday in the largest coordinated action for years amid lengthy disputes over pay. Teacher members of the National Education Union in England and Wales walked out in the first of several days, affecting […]
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Wed 01 February 2023: Credit Suisse Group AG has stopped accepting Gautam Adani’s group of companies bonds as collateral for margin loans to its private banking clients, indicating that the Indian tycoon’s finances are being scrutinized following allegations of fraud by short seller Hindenburg Research. Adani Group shares were in freefall on Wednesday, when Union Budget […]
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Wed 01 February 2023: The Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders have called on the Kingdom of Eswatini to urgently initiate a national dialogue as tensions continue to rise in that country. This comes after the murder of a leading human rights lawyer and political activist in the Kingdom of Eswatini, Thulani Masek,o who was […]
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Wed 01 February 2023: Infosys, an Indian IT firm, is in a dispute with the UK’s tax agency over a multimillion-pound corporation tax bill, The Guardian reported. The company that Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law NR Narayana Murthy founded is involved in a multimillion dollar legal battle with UK tax authorities. RISHI SUNAK, WIFE AKSHATA MURTY DEBUT […]
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(Image credit: NASA/MSFC/Aaron Kingery) Wed 01 February 2023: On Wednesday, a green-hued comet is expected to be the most visible to stargazers as it passes Earth and the sun for the first time in about 50,000 years. According to NASA, the dirty snowball was discovered less than a year ago and last passed close to […]
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