Sat 22 March 2025: At least 8,938 people lost their lives on migration routes in 2024, making it the deadliest year on record, according to new data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) released on Friday. The toll surpasses the previous record of 8,747 deaths in 2023, continuing a five-year trend of increasing fatalities, […]
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Sat 22 March 2025: US President Donald Trump has ordered the revocation of security clearances of several high-profile political rivals, including former Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In a late-night memo on Friday, Trump directed all federal agencies to immediately strip access to classified information for over a dozen […]
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Sat 22 March 2025: NATO members seek to avoid possible chaos should the US declare its withdrawal from the transatlantic military bloc. Europe’s biggest military powers are drawing up plans to take on greater responsibilities for the continent’s defence from the United States, including a pitch to the administration of President Donald Trump, for a […]
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Fri 21 March 2025: The Sudanese army seized full control of the Presidential Palace in downtown Khartoum today, it said in a statement, in one of the most symbolic gains in a two-year-old conflict with a rival armed group that has threatened to partition the country, Reuters reports. The army had long been on the backfoot but has recently […]
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Fri 21 March 2025: Heathrow Airport in London will remain closed throughout Friday, with over 1,300 flights expected to be canceled due to a significant power outage caused by a nearby fire. Travelers have been advised that flight disruptions may persist for days as the airport awaits the restoration of electricity, following what government officials […]
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Fri 21 March 2025: Millions of Turkish liras were seized from the addresses of two key figures detained as part of the corruption and terror investigations into the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, according to state prosecutors in the Turkish metropolis. Investigations by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office into Istanbul Municipality Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and 99 […]
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Fri 21 March 2025: Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov announced on Thursday that a new round of Russia-US talks will take place on March 24 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Ushakov confirmed the date was set during a phone call with US National Security Adviser Michael Waltz. “Michael Waltz, […]
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Fri 21 March 2025: Somalia’s president has fired his defence minister reportedly under pressure from the United States, due to the dismissed official having close ties with Turkiye, sources have revealed. On Sunday, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud dismissed his defence minister Abuldkadir Mohamed Nur, in a reshuffle which saw him reassigned as the country’s […]
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Thu 20 March 2025: Sudan’s army is close to taking control of the Presidential Palace in Khartoum from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), state TV reported today according to Reuters. The RSF quickly took the palace and most of the capital at the outbreak of war in April 2023, but the Sudanese Armed Forces have […]
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Thu 20 March 2025: Police in India’s northern state of Punjab detained hundreds of farmers who have been protesting for over a year for better crop prices. Authorities also used bulldozers to dismantle their makeshift camps. Protest leaders Sarwan Singh Pandher and Jagjit Singh Dallewal were among those detained by the Punjab police in the early hours of Thursday. […]
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