Fri 03 January 2025: The United Nations’ world food price index dipped in December against November levels, led lower by a drop in international sugar quotations, but still showed a robust gain year-on-year, data showed on Friday. The index, compiled by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to track the most globally traded food […]
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Fri 03 January 2025: Syria’s new government seeks no discord with Iran but demands that it not undermine Damascus, Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani told Al Jazeera on Wednesday. “Iran is a neighboring country, and we do not wish to eliminate them, but we hope they reconsider their position and actions toward the Syrian people,” al-Shaibani […]
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Fri 03 January 2025: French troops will withdraw from Ivory Coast in January, President Alassane Ouattara said Tuesday in his end of year address to the nation. “We can be proud of our army, whose modernization is effective. It is in this context that we have decided on the concerted and organized withdrawal of French forces in Cote d’Ivoire,” […]
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Fri 03 January 2025: Germany’s Annalena Baerbock offers ‘outstretched hand’, but underlines EU ‘expectations’ on diversity and tolerance. The French and German foreign ministers have arrived in Damascus to meet Syria’s new rulers, marking the first trip by top European Union officials to the country since the fall of former president Bashar al-Assad last month. […]
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Fri 03 January 2025: More than 13,500 Israeli soldiers have been injured since the outbreak of the Gaza conflict on Oct. 7, 2023, Israeli media said on Tuesday. The Israeli public broadcaster KAN said the soldiers were injured in fighting in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon and were transferred to the Defense Ministry’s rehabilitation department. KAN said around […]
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Thu 02 January 2025: There is “no definitive link” between the New Year’s Day deadly New Orleans attack and a vehicle explosion outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas, an FBI official said Thursday. “At this point, there is no definitive link between the attack here in New Orleans and the one in Las Vegas,” FBI Deputy […]
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Thu 02 January 2025: The Turkish defence ministry has said Ankara will establish military cooperation with the new Syrian administration, Middle East Eye reported Speaking to journalists on Thursday, a Turkish defence official said Ankara was already in discussions with Syrian officials on the nature of their future military ties. “In line with the directives of our president, we […]
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Thu 02 January 2025: Elon Musk has demanded the release from prison of Tommy Robinson, a far-right activist currently serving an 18-month prison sentence in the UK. On Thursday morning, Musk used his X platform to call for Robinson’s release, describing a libelous documentary by the English Defence League (EDL) co-founder as “worth watching”. Robinson […]
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Thu 02 January 2025: French troops will withdraw from Ivory Coast in January, President Alassane Ouattara said Tuesday in his end of year address to the nation. “We can be proud of our army, whose modernization is effective. It is in this context that we have decided on the concerted and organized withdrawal of French forces in Cote d’Ivoire,” […]
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Thu 02 January 2025: The death toll in a pickup truck attack in New Orleans, Louisiana has risen to 15, New Orleans Coroner Dr. Dwight McKenna said Wednesday. “It will take several days to perform all autopsies. Once we complete the autopsies and talk with the next of kin, we will release the identifications of […]
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