Sun 18 August 2024: Hezbollah official Fuad Shukr was lured by a phone call to go from his office to his apartment before Israeli munitions targeted his home, killing him, his wife, two children and two other women, a report from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) revealed. Shukr was killed on 30 July in the southern Beirut neighbourhood of […]
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Sun 18 August 2024: Saudi Arabia aims to direct significantly less of its $1 trillion strategic investments to its oil industry than was previously expected, a recent report has revealed. According to a report by prominent American investment bank Goldman Sachs this week, Saudi Arabia’s capital expenditure [capex] plan is set to amount to a […]
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Sun 18 August 2024: The United States’s top diplomat is visiting Israel as part of Washington’s efforts to secure a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza in which more than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in the besieged enclave since last October. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was set to arrive in Israel on Sunday, […]
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Sun 18 August 2024: Elon Musk announced on Saturday that the social media platform X would close its operations in Brazil “effective immediately” due to what it called “censorship orders” from the Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes. X claims Moraes secretly threatened one of its legal representatives in the South American country with arrest if […]
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Sun 18 August 2024: Ukraine’s military operation across the Russian border has led to the capture of over 150 Russian prisoners of war (POWs) on some days, according to Oleksii Drozdenko, head of the military administration in Sumy. Drozdenko described the attack as the first of “several stages” aimed at taking the fight to Moscow. […]
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Sun 18 August 2024: Tens of millions of people in Southern Africa are suffering the effects of an El Nino-induced drought, a regional bloc has warned, with a drop in crop and livestock production causing food shortages in several countries. Elias Magosi, executive secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), said on Saturday that […]
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Sat 17 August 2024: Abdul Salam Haniyeh, the son of the late head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, has revealed new information about his father’s assassination in Tehran. Abdul Salam shared in statements to Al Arabiya channel that his father was killed by a missile attack via his mobile phone, adding: “It was a guided […]
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Sat 17 August 2024: -Sudanese women face sexual assault while fleeing displacement, those detained during migration also suffer sexual violence, Mona Rishmawi tells Anadolu ISTANBUL Parties involved in the civil war in Sudan since April 2023 often use sexual assault and violence as a weapon of war. Mona Rishmawi, a member of the UN Independent […]
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Sat 17 August 2024: In a virtual meeting on Friday, U.S. officials vowed to bolster direct support to Myanmar’s opposition movement, aiming to facilitate a transition to civilian government. The U.S. State Department emphasized the need to maintain pressure on Myanmar’s military junta, which has held power since a 2021 coup derailed the nation’s path […]
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Sat 17 August 2024: A groundbreaking study has revealed that approximately 4.4 billion people across the globe do not have access to safe drinking water. This alarming statistic was published on Thursday in the Science journal by a team of researchers, including Esther Greenwood from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. According […]
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