Tue 14 January 2025: Lebanese President, Joseph Aoun, summoned Nawaf Salam, the head of the International Court of Justice, to designate him prime minister after most lawmakers nominated him on Monday, a big blow to Hezbollah, which accused opponents of seeking to exclude it, Reuters reports. The choice of Salam underlined the major shift in the power balance […]
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Tue 14 January 2025: US President Joe Biden said Monday that rebuilding Los Angeles following devastating wildfires will cost tens of billions of dollars. “Although the federal government is going to cover 100% of the cost for the next 180 days for things like firefighter overtime pay, debris removal and temporary shelters, it’s going to […]
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Tue 14 January 2025: Bangladesh on Sunday summoned India’s high commissioner in Dhaka to protest the installation of barbed wire fences, calling it a “violation of international law.” Pranay Verma appeared in person at the Foreign Ministry in Dhaka and explained the construction of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) wire fence along the border. […]
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Tue 14 January 2025: China is looking at a potential option that involves selling TikTok’s operations in the US to tech-billionaire Elon Musk to keep the app from being effectively banned, Bloomberg News reported Monday. Chinese officials prefer that TikTok remains under the ownership of parent ByteDance Ltd., Bloomberg said, citing sources familiar with the […]
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Tue 14 January 2025: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday accused the US of planning to sabotage the TurkStream gas pipeline, which transports energy resources from Russia to Türkiye. Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Lavrov alleged Washington is facilitating terrorist attacks on energy infrastructure and claimed there are plans to target TurkStream. […]
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Tue 14 January 2025: Thousands of unexploded munitions fired by the Israeli army have remained scattered across Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, according to Israeli media. Quoting unnamed senior officers late Friday, Israel’s Channel 12 reported that the Israeli army recently launched an investigation to determine whether Palestinians used unexploded munitions to manufacture an improvised […]
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Tue 14 January 2024: Incoming US President Donald Trump has said in a phone interview with the US-based Newsmax network that a Gaza ceasefire deal is very close and could be realised by the end of this week. “We are very close to getting it done,” Trump said on a segment with the network’s Rob […]
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Mon 13 January 2025: Officials say Boko Haram and ISWAP groups suspected of being behind the attacks on farmers in the Dumba region. At least 40 farmers have been killed in an attack by armed groups in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State, according to government officials. Fighters from the Boko Haram group and ISIL (ISIS) affiliate in […]
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Mon 13 January 2025: Cuba has filed a declaration that it will join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, the court announced on Monday. “Cuba, invoking Article 63 of the Statute of the Court, filed in the Registry of the Court a declaration of intervention in the case concerning […]
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Mon 13 January 2025: Sudan’s leader said Sunday that “colonial powers” are fueling conflicts in Africa. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of Sudan’s Sovereign Council, made the remarks during his meeting with Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo at the presidential palace in the capital Bissau, according to a statement from the council. The council said […]
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