UN RAISES CONCERN OVER ESCALATING TENSIONS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Fri 14 March 2025: The UN on Thursday expressed concern about growing tension in Bosnia and Herzegovina, calling for peace and stability. “We call on all political leaders to fully support and facilitate the work of state institutions in order to consolidate peace and ensure stability throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina,” spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a statement. Urging “relevant actors […]

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UNICEF SAYS 12 MILLION AT RISK OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE AS SUDAN CRISIS DEEPENS

Fri 14 March 2025: UN Security Council meets to discuss war’s toll on children as MSF secretary-general slams ‘hollow’ ceasefire calls. The war in Sudan has exposed more than 12 million people to “pervasive” sexual violence that is being used to “terrify” the entire population, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). As the war nears […]

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SOUTHERN AFRICA REGIONAL BLOC TO WITHDRAW TROOPS FROM DRC AMID M23 ADVANCE

Fri 14 March 2025: The Southern African regional bloc has said it will conclude its troop deployment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), having decided on a “phased withdrawal”. Leaders from the 16-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) – which has lost at least a dozen soldiers in the eastern DRC since January […]

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US, ISRAEL DISCUSS SETTLING GAZANS IN 3 AFRICAN STATES, ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS

Fri 14 March 2025: The US and Israel have contacted officials of three East African countries to discuss using their territories to settle Palestinians who have been forcibly displaced from Gaza, the Associated Press reported today according to Reuters US and Israeli sources cited by AP said officials from Sudan, Somalia and the breakaway region of Somaliland were contacted regarding […]

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CHINA CLAIMS LAB LEAK OF COVID-19 IS ‘EXTREMELY UNLIKELY’

Fri 14 March 2025: China Thursday said that it is “extremely unlikely” that the COVID-19 pandemic was caused by an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan, rejecting the claims of the German intelligence report. “It is ‘extremely unlikely’ that the pandemic was caused by a lab leak, this is the authoritative conclusion reached by the […]

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MOSCOW SUPPORTS THE IDEA OF ​​ENDING THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR THROUGH PEACEFUL MEANS: PUTIN

Fri 14 March 2025: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that his country agrees with US proposals for a ceasefire in Ukraine but stressed that any ceasefire would have to deal with the root causes of the conflict. “We agree with the proposals to stop the hostilities, but we proceed from the fact that this […]

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SYRIA’S PRESIDENT AL-SHARAA SIGNS TEMPORARY CONSTITUTION

Thu 13 March 2025: Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has signed a temporary constitution that will be in force for a five-year transitional period, three months after his forces led a lightning offensive that toppled Bashar al-Assad’s government. Al-Sharaa said he hoped the constitutional declaration would mark the start of “a new history for Syria, where […]

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TRUMP: TALKS WITH RUSSIA ‘GOING OKAY’ AS EFFORTS TO REACH UKRAINE CEASEFIRE CONTINUE

Thu 13 March 2025: US President Donald Trump struck a note of tempered optimism Thursday amid negotiations with Russia on a ceasefire proposal to bring the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine to a halt for at least 30 days. Addressing reporters as he hosted NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office, Trump said his officials […]

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COVID-19 CLAIMS OVER 7 MILLION LIVES GLOBALLY

Thu 13 March 2025: The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a “pandemic” on March 11, 2020, and since then, over 7 million people have lost their lives worldwide. Although the disease was removed from the “International Public Health Emergency” category in 2023, fatalities continue. The first cases of COVID-19 emerged in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, when patients […]

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US PUBLIC SOURING ON TRUMP’S HANDLING OF ECONOMY, POLLS SHOW

Thu 13 March 2025: Majority of Americans disapprove of Trump’s economic management amid stock market turmoil, polls show. United States President Donald Trump’s handling of the economy is facing growing pushback from Americans amid wild swings in the stock market and growing fears of a recession, new polling shows. In a CNN/SSRS poll released on Wednesday, 56 […]

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