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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Mon 13 January 2025: About 14,700 confirmed mpox cases, including 66 deaths, were reported in 20 African countries from January 2024 to Jan. 5, 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday. The confirmed cases represent only a subset of suspected cases, the WHO said. It previously said that a significant number of suspected […]
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Mon 13 January 2025: US President Joe Biden has awarded Pope Francis the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction, the highest civilian honor granted by the president. The White House in a statement on Saturday said Biden bestowed the award to the pope during a phone call. It described the pontiff as “the People’s Pope […]
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Mon 13 January 2025: Images and videos purporting to show the historic Hollywood sign engulfed in flames are spreading across X and other social media platforms as wildfires rage through Los Angeles, California. But the visuals are fakes, some likely generated by artificial intelligence; the landmark had not been affected as of January 10, […]
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Mon 13 January 2025: The World Bank said that only six out of 26 countries classified as low-income are projected to reach middle-income status by 2050 if there is no sustained improvement in their growth rates. The findings come in a section published by the World Bank of the Global Economic Prospects Report, which will be released in […]
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Sun 12 January 2025: Turkish human rights lawyers representing Syrians have called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to urgently issue arrest warrants for Bashar al-Assad and 17 senior officials for war crimes and crimes against humanity, as reported by Anadolu news agency. In a statement issued after meeting Syrian authorities on Thursday, lawyers Gülden Sönmez and Cihat Gökdemir explained that […]
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Sun 12 January 2025: The death toll in the Los Angeles wildfires has climbed to 16 as the relentless blazes continue to rage for a fifth consecutive day, authorities said. Five of the deaths were attributed to the Palisades fire and 11 resulted from the Eaton fire, the LA County medical examiner’s office confirmed. At […]
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Sun 12 January 2025: African nations on Saturday adopted a new strategy to advance agricultural development and food systems, a key source of livelihood for the continent’s population. The 10-year strategy and action plan to implement the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP), along with a consensus document titled the Kampala Declaration, were announced on […]
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Sun 12 January 2025: Israel approved plans to withdraw troops from the Gaza Strip, after advancements in prisoner exchange negotiations with Hamas, media reports said Saturday. The Haaretz newspaper said the military authorized several plans for the swift withdrawal of soldiers from Gaza in response to progress in the talks. It examined options, including withdrawing […]
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