Fri 05 July 2024: At least 89 migrants and refugees heading for Europe have died, with dozens more missing, after their boat capsized off the coast of Mauritania, state media reports. The fishing boat overturned on Monday about 4km (2.4 miles) from the southwestern coastal city of Ndiago in Mauritania. The Mauritanian coastguard recovered 89 […]
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Fri 05 July 2024: The Labour Party has secured a landslide victory in the UK election to end 14 years of Conservative rule. “We did it!” Keir Starmer, the Labour leader and incoming prime minister, said in his victory speech. “Change begins now.” Outgoing Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak concedes defeat, says he will step down as leader […]
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Indonesian Muslim scholar Abu Bakar Bashir was freed on 08 January 2021 after completing his prison term. Fri 05 July 2024: Senior members of Jemaah Islamiyah, the Southeast Asian armed group blamed for the deadly Bali bombings, announced they’re disbanding. A report from the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) on Thursday confirmed the […]
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Fri 05 July 2024: The war in Gaza has resulted in the displacement of almost 90 per cent of the enclave’s Palestinian residents, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA. The head of the agency in the occupied Palestinian territories, Andrea De Domenico, reported yesterday that around 1.9 million people […]
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Fri 05 July 2024: More than 136,000 people have fled Sudan’s Sennar state in the south-east of the country since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces began a series of attacks on towns, the UN said on Wednesday. This is the latest wave of displacement caused by Sudan’s almost 15-month long civil war, Reuters has reported. They join […]
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Thu 04 July 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said a multipolar world has become a reality, with international structures like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the economic bloc BRICS serving as its main pillars. Speaking at a meeting of the SCO Council of Heads in Astana, Kazakhstan, Putin said these associations act […]
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Thu 04 July 2024: People across the United Kingdom are casting ballots in a snap general election called by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Voters to decide if the Conservative Party leader will remain in the top job or if Keir Starmer, of the main opposition Labour Party, will become prime minister. Polling stations opened at […]
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Thu 04 July 2024: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled Wednesday that declarations of intervention filed by seven states in a genocide case brought by Gambia against Myanmar are admissible. The ICJ’s order unanimously accepted the interventions, allowing the states to contribute to the proceedings with their perspectives on the interpretation of the Genocide […]
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Thu 04 July 2024: Russia’s Foreign Ministry warned Wednesday that NATO’s increased military presence on the country’s borders will not go unanswered. “I can only confirm that Russia will not leave unanswered the NATO military build-up on our borders, which threatens the security of the Russian Federation,” deputy spokesman for the ministry Andrey Nastasyin said […]
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Thu 04 July 2024: As voters in the United Kingdom go to the polls to choose their next government, the rising cost of living is among the top issues of concern. Household budgets have been strained over the past few years by high inflation driven by the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war […]
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