Thu 29 August 2024: The Israeli military and Palestinian group, Hamas, have agreed to three separate, zoned three-day pauses in fighting in the Gaza Strip to allow for the vaccination of some 640,000 children against polio, a senior WHO official said on Thursday, Reuters reports. The vaccination campaign is due to start on Sunday, said Rik Peeperkorn, […]
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Thu 29 August 2024: Students at New York University (NYU) who speak out against Zionism will risk violating the school’s newly adopted non-discrimination policies. New speech codes unveiled by the university places anyone who identifies as a “Zionist” under the category of a protected class of person, shielding the ideology and its followers from being […]
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Thu 29 August 2024: The EU foreign policy chief on Thursday stressed the need to discuss lifting restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Western weapons on military targets inside Russia. Before attending the informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, Josep Borrell told reporters that Ukraine “has shown a lot of strategic audacity launching attacks […]
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Thu 29 August 2024: Chinese lenders approved loans worth $4.61 billion to Africa last year, marking the first annual increase since 2016, an independent study showed on Thursday. Africa secured more than $10 billion in loans a year from China between 2012-2018, thanks to President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), but the lending […]
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Thu 29 August 2024: The interim government of Bangladesh, led by Professor Muhammad Yunus, has lifted the ban on the country’s main Islamic party Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir. Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government had imposed a ban on them on August 1 under the country’s anti-terrorism law, […]
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Thu 29 August 2024: Beginning September 1, Russia will start using cryptocurrencies as an official method for international payments, marking a significant shift in response to Western economic sanctions. Faced with obstacles in traditional payment channels, Russian authorities are now turning to digital currencies to facilitate cross-border transactions. Before the Ukraine conflict in 2022, the […]
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Wed 28 August 2024: Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the encrypted messaging app Telegram, was brought to court on Wednesday in Paris, according to media reports. Durov’s detention, which started on Saturday and was extended once, ended on Wednesday, broadcaster BFMTV said. The investigating judge put an end to his custody in order […]
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Wed 28 August 2024: A Ukrainian drone strike has ignited an oil depot in Russia’s Rostov region, according to local authorities. The attack, which occurred overnight, was confirmed by regional Governor Vasily Golubev, who reported that firefighters were working to extinguish the blaze in the Kamensky district. No casualties have been reported. Russia’s Ministry of […]
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Wed 28 August 2024: UN agencies and their partners have urgently called for a humanitarian pause in the war in Gaza to ensure that more than 640,000 children can receive polio vaccinations. The request underscores the dire need for an immediate halt in hostilities to prevent the spread of the disease among vulnerable populations in […]
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Wed 28 August 2024: The White House said Tuesday it is adopting a wait-and-see posture after Iran’s supreme leader opened the door to the resumption of negotiations with the US over Tehran’s nuclear program. “We have long said that we ultimately view diplomacy as the best way to achieve an effective, long-term solution to Iran’s […]
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