Thu 26 December 2024: Israeli army forces staged an incursion into a strategic area in southern Lebanon on Thursday, in the latest violation of a cease-fire agreement, Lebanese media said. Israeli forces moved into the Wadi al-Hujeir area, firing heavy-caliber machineguns during their advance in the region, the state news agency NNA reported. The Lebanese […]
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Wed 27 December 2024: The UAE has emerged as Africa’s largest backer of new business projects, with Emirati companies committing $110bn (£88bn) to projects between 2019 and 2023, including $72bn in renewable energy, The Guardian reports citing FT Locations. These pledges outpace investments by the UK, France, and China, as traditional investors scale back. African leaders have […]
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Wed 25 December 2024: An Azerbaijan Airlines flight with 67 people on board, traveling from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to Grozny in Russia’s Chechnya region, crashed near the Kazakh Caspian city of Aktau on Wednesday, the Kazakh Emergency Ministry said, adding that there were 25 survivors. According to the ministry, 62 passengers and five crew […]
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Wed 25 December 2024: United States President-elect Donald Trump has promised to step up the use of the death penalty during his second term in office, saying he will go after “rapists, murderers, and monsters”. Trump’s announcement on Tuesday came after outgoing President Joe Biden used his presidential pardon powers to reduce the sentences of nearly […]
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Wed 25 December 2024: Pope Francis has denounced the “extremely grave” humanitarian situation in Gaza while appealing for the release of captives and a ceasefire in the war-torn coastal enclave. In his Christmas “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and world) address on Wednesday at the Vatican, Francis also appealed for peace in Ukraine and Sudan. “I […]
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Wed 25 December 2024: A UK-based Syrian rights group today said that it has compiled a list of around 16,200 members of the ousted Assad regime accused of committing crimes against civilians. “The ousted Assad regime committed serious violations that affected millions of Syrians,” the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in a statement. […]
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Wed 25 December 2024: Residents in Adelaide’s north, South Australia have been forced to evacuate their homes during Christmas lunch as a grassfire threatened property there. The fire started in a rail corridor and spread south amid hot, dry and windy conditions in the suburb of Smithfield, according to ABC News. The Metropolitan Fire Service […]
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Orthopaedic surgeon Mohammed al-Hanash watches a video from April 2018 of Muwafaq Nisrin, who worked as an emergency responder and nurse, providing assistance to a victim in Douma © Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP Tue 24 December 2024: Two Syrian doctors and a nurse told AFP in a series of interviews over the weekend that Bashar al-Assad’s […]
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Tue 24 December 2024: The epidemiological situation of Mpox in Africa remains “especially concerning,” with high case counts observed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Burundi, and Uganda, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday. According to the latest report of the WHO, Africa has seen 13,769 confirmed cases across 20 countries as […]
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Tue 24 December 2024: The fate of some Israeli hostages is tied to the Israeli army’s advance in areas of northern Gaza, said the spokesperson for the Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, on Monday. Abu Ubaida’s comments came in several statements on Telegram shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed there had been “certain […]
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