Mon 17 March 2025: President Donald Trump on Monday declared he will hold Iran directly responsible for any future attacks by Yemen‘s Tehran-backed Huthi rebels, who have targeted multiple US and other foreign ships in the Red Sea. “Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership […]
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Mon 17 March 2025: NASA announced that astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will return to Earth tomorrow evening aboard a SpaceX spacecraft. American astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have been stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) for over nine months, are finally returning to Earth. NASA stated that the two astronauts will be brought back tomorrow evening on a […]
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Mon 17 March 2025: The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has announced the phased withdrawal of its military mission from the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), marking a significant shift in the region’s approach to resolving the ongoing conflict. The decision follows mounting casualties among SADC troops and renewed diplomatic efforts to bring […]
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Mon 17 March 2025: US officials expressed optimism Sunday that a Ukraine-Russia ceasefire deal could be reached in “weeks,” as President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are expected to discuss a possible truce. The United States this week proposed a halt in fighting in the three-year war after talks in Saudi Arabia, which Kyiv accepted. Washington and Kyiv’s European […]
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Mon 17 March 2025: The leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan vowed on Saturday to continue fighting and threatened new offensives against the Sudanese army. In a video statement, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemetti, said that the RSF will not withdraw from the presidential palace or the capital, Khartoum. “The […]
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Mon 17 March 2025: US President Donald Trump said more key files, including those related to convicted pedophile and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, will be released soon. In an interview on Sunday on the Full Measure news program, Trump said: “The Kennedy records are getting out. […]
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Mon 17 March 2025: The nearly 130,000 cases of measles reported in Europe in 2024 are unacceptable and require “immediate action,” the technical lead for measles at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) European Office said Friday. Dragan Jankovic was referring to a report recently released by the WHO and UNICEF, in which 127,350 measles cases […]
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Sun 16 March 2025: International medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on Thursday warned of soaring malnutrition rates in Somalia, where chronic funding shortfalls have crippled humanitarian efforts. According to the MSF, without immediate and sustained support, thousands of children face not only starvation but also weakened immunity, increased vulnerability to diseases, and irreversible developmental […]
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Sun 16 March 2025: All full-time staff at Voice of America (VOA), the largest US government-funded international broadcaster, were informed Saturday that they had been placed on administrative leave. Crystal G. Thomas, human resources director at the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the agency overseeing VOA and other state-funded news organizations, sent an email […]
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Sun 16 March 2025: Bangladeshi student representatives urged the United Nations to assist in taking former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s case to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over alleged crimes against humanity committed during the July uprising last year. The demand was made on Saturday during a meeting between a student delegation and visiting UN […]
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