Sat 26 October 2024: Namibia will hold its presidential and parliamentary elections on Nov. 27, the president has announced. “President Nangolo Mbumba has declared Wednesday, 27 November 2024, as a public holiday. This declaration has been made to facilitate the general election for the election of the President and members of the National Assembly,” said […]
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Sat 26 October 2024: Iranian officials revealed that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had directed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to develop several military plans to respond to any possible Israeli attack. The officials told US media that the magnitude of the Iranian response would be proportional to the extent of the damage that […]
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Sat 26 October 2024: In a landmark moment, President Joe Biden issued an apology on Friday for what he called “one of the country’s most horrific chapters”: the forced separation of Native American children from their families into government boarding schools with the aim of erasing their cultural identity. From the early 1800s to the […]
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Sat 26 October 2024: North Koreasaid on Friday that any dispatch of its soldiers to Russia would conform to international law, marking its first official response to recent claims by South Korea that Pyongyang sent approximately 3,000 troops to support Moscow. The White House has also backed these assertions. In a vaguely-worded statement, North Korean […]
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Sat 26 October 2024: The Israeli military announced Saturday that it had completed targeted airstrikes on Iranian military facilities. The army said the airstrikes targeted missile manufacturing facilities believed to have produced missiles that were launched at Israel over the last year. The strikes were in response to recent missile attacks by Tehran on Israel. […]
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Fri 25 October 2024: Nearly 320,000 people forced to leave their homes due to flooding and landslides, while thousands are stranded at air and seaports. At least 76 people have been killed in central and northern Philippines after Tropical Storm Trami battered the country, triggering landslides and flooding that trapped residents on their roofs and displaced nearly […]
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Fri 25 October 2024: Africa has recorded 134 new polio cases in at least seven counties, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Thursday. WHO regional director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, in a message to mark World Polio Day 2024 said the circulating variant polio type 2 has been found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central […]
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Fri 25 October 2024: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that Canada is pulling up the welcome mat on an open-door policy to immigrants. The dramatic change will see Canada reduce the annual figure of permanent residents by 21% to 395,000 next year; 380,000 in 2026 and 365,000 in 2027. The target was 500,000 in […]
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Fri 25 October 2024: The poverty rate across the Occupied Palestinian Territories is set to reach almost 75 per cent this year amid Israel’s ongoing bombardment and invasion of the Gaza Strip. According to a new report by the United Nations’ Development Programme (UNDP), the Palestinian economy is currently 35 per cent smaller than it […]
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Thu 24 October 2024: Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza over the past year has prompted a number of questions regarding the “international community”. How, for example, is this genocide being allowed to happen? Why has the UN not been able to stop it? Are international courts powerless? Are all these institutions really neutral […]
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