Sat 12 October 2024: The government of the United Kingdom (UK) on Thursday unveiled a new Employment Rights Bill, outlining reforms aimed at boosting economic growth and upgrading workers’ rights across the country. Presented to Parliament just before the Labour government marking its first 100 days in power, the bill is an attempt by the […]
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Sat 12 October 2024: The death toll from Africa’s ongoing mpox outbreak has risen to 979, with a total of 38,300 cases, including 7,339 confirmed ones, since the beginning of 2024, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). During an online media briefing Thursday evening, Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya […]
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Fri 11 October 2024: The 2024 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to South Korean author Han Kang. Han was recognized for “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life,” the Nobel committee announced on Thursday. The author was born in 1970 in South Korea, where she […]
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Fri 11 October 2024: Pope Francis on Friday met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Vatican to discuss the latest developments in Ukraine. The talks were “dedicated to the state of the war and the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, as well as the ways that could put an end to it, leading to a just […]
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Fri 11 October 2024: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned on Friday that an Israeli strike on Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities would constitute a “serious provocation.” Speaking at a news conference in Vientiane, Laos, Lavrov emphasized that despite the rising tensions, the International Atomic Energy Agency, which closely monitors Iran’s nuclear activities, has not reported […]
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Thu 10 October 2024: One in eight girls, women raped or sexually assaulted before age 18, UNICEF says More than 370 million girls and women alive today, or one in every eight worldwide, experienced rape or sexual assault before the age of 18, the United Nations children’s agency said yesterday, Reuters reported. The number rises to 650 […]
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Esmail Qaani, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force. Fri 11 October 2024: Head of Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force not wounded but swept up in major investigation into Iranian security breaches, sources tell Middle East Eye Esmail Qaani, the leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force, is alive and unhurt but under […]
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Fri 11 October 2024: Chaotic scenes in the aftermath of air strikes on Ras el-Nabaa and al-Nuweiri in Beirut. The strikes appear to have hit densely populated residential areas, with smoke billowing from two residential blocks and flames engulfing the streets below. Many residents have left their apartments in the high-rise blocks in the area […]
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Thu 10 October 2024: Former US President and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday declined a request from Fox News for another debate with Democratic nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris. On his Truth Social account, Trump, in all caps, claimed he had won the last two debates, one against President Joe Biden and […]
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receives Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 09, 2024. Thu 10 October 2024: As the wider region awaiting Israel’s response to last week’s Iranian missile attack, three Gulf sources have told Reuters that Gulf countries are lobbying the United States to stop Israel from attacking Iran’s […]
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