Wed 25 December 2024: Pope Francis has denounced the “extremely grave” humanitarian situation in Gaza while appealing for the release of captives and a ceasefire in the war-torn coastal enclave. In his Christmas “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and world) address on Wednesday at the Vatican, Francis also appealed for peace in Ukraine and Sudan. “I […]
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Wed 25 December 2024: A UK-based Syrian rights group today said that it has compiled a list of around 16,200 members of the ousted Assad regime accused of committing crimes against civilians. “The ousted Assad regime committed serious violations that affected millions of Syrians,” the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in a statement. […]
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Wed 25 December 2024: Residents in Adelaide’s north, South Australia have been forced to evacuate their homes during Christmas lunch as a grassfire threatened property there. The fire started in a rail corridor and spread south amid hot, dry and windy conditions in the suburb of Smithfield, according to ABC News. The Metropolitan Fire Service […]
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Orthopaedic surgeon Mohammed al-Hanash watches a video from April 2018 of Muwafaq Nisrin, who worked as an emergency responder and nurse, providing assistance to a victim in Douma © Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP Tue 24 December 2024: Two Syrian doctors and a nurse told AFP in a series of interviews over the weekend that Bashar al-Assad’s […]
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Tue 24 December 2024: The epidemiological situation of Mpox in Africa remains “especially concerning,” with high case counts observed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Burundi, and Uganda, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday. According to the latest report of the WHO, Africa has seen 13,769 confirmed cases across 20 countries as […]
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Tue 24 December 2024: The fate of some Israeli hostages is tied to the Israeli army’s advance in areas of northern Gaza, said the spokesperson for the Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, on Monday. Abu Ubaida’s comments came in several statements on Telegram shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed there had been “certain […]
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Tue 24 December 2024: The Kremlin on Monday denied media reports that the British-born wife of ousted Syrian regime leader Bashar al-Assad is seeking divorce and planning to leave Russia. “No, they do not correspond to reality,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in the Russian capital of Moscow in response to a question on […]
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The Kootenay Indian Residential School, also known as the St. Eugene’s Mission School, near Cranbrook was run as an industrial school by the Roman Catholic church between 1912 and 1970. Ktunaxa, Secwepemc and Okangan, as well as Blackfoot children were forced to attend the school for approximately 10 out of 12 months of the year […]
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Mon 23 December 2024: Israel’s defense minister on Monday publicly admitted for the first time that the Jewish state was behind the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31, 2024. “We’ll severely cripple the Houthis, damage their strategic infrastructure and behead their leaders – just as we did to Haniyeh, Sinwar […]
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Mon 23 December 2024: Search reveals over 70 long-barreled firearms, 5,000 rounds of ammunition, and several explosive materials, alongside Nazi symbols that banned under Austrian law A police operation in Austria’s Styria province uncovered a significant cache of weapons, ammunition, explosives, and prohibited Nazi memorabilia, authorities reported on Monday. Acting on a tip-off, law enforcement […]
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