Mon 14 October 2024: Kamala Harris is losing ground to Donald Trump with less than a month to go until the election for president of the United States, a series of polls suggest. Harris’s lead over Trump has narrowed or vanished outright as the race for the White House approaches the final stretch, according to […]
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Mon 14 October 2024: Low-income countries still poorer than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, report finds. The world’s 26 poorest countries are deeper in debt than at any time since 2006 and increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters and other shocks, the World Bank has said. The poorest economies are worse off today than they […]
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Sun 13 October 2024: Hamas tried to persuade its two allies, Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, to join its October 7, 2023, attack against Israel or at least commit to a broader fight if the Palestinian militant group staged a surprise cross-border raid, The New York Times (NYT) reported on Saturday, citing the […]
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Sun 13 October 2024: A university professor close to the Iranian establishment has been summoned by the judiciary after alleging on state television that an Iranian intermediary bought the Hezbollah pagers that exploded last month. During a live Iranian state TV broadcast, Masoud Asadollahi, a former deputy commander of the IRGC Quds Force and a professor […]
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Sun 13 October 2024: The Nile Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA) officially came into force on Sunday despite continued rejections by Egypt and Sudan, according to the Ethiopian prime minister, Anadolu reports. The agreement establishes the Nile River Basin Commission (NRBC), an institutional body tasked with promoting and coordinating cooperation among the Basin states on matters of […]
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Sun 13 October 2024: Iran has banned pagers and walkie-talkies on all flights, local media reported Saturday, weeks after deadly sabotage attacks in Lebanon which were blamed on Israel. “The entry of any electronic communication device, except mobile phones, in flight cabins or … in non-accompanied cargo, has been banned,” ISNA news agency reported, citing […]
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Sun 13 October 2024: The Kremlin said on Saturday that Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s description of Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “murderous dictator” exposed how politicians in Washington sought to impose their views on the world. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov’s comment was the latest jab in exchanges revolving around the US presidential […]
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Sun 13 October 2024: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he had a “brief exchange” with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a summit in Laos this week, a year after he accused India’s government of involvement in the killing of a Canadian Sikh activist in B.C. It’s the second time Trudeau’s come face to […]
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Sat 12 October 2024: The World Food Program (WFP) warned Thursday that the threat of famine persists in Gaza amid tragedy and suffering in the Palestinian enclave. “As another winter approaches, every day is a struggle for survival. Hunger remains rampant and the threat of famine persists,” the UN agency said on X. It expressed […]
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Sat 12 October 2024: Gaza is home to the largest number of amputee children in modern history, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Wednesday. Director of the Financing and Partnerships Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Lisa Doughten, said women and children are hard-hit by the trauma of the […]
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