Wed 15 May 2024: Authorities in the Canadian province of Alberta have issued evacuation orders for neighbourhoods in Fort McMurray, as a growing wildfire nears the community at the heart of Canada’s tar sands region. The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo on Tuesday afternoon gave residents of the Abasand, Beacon Hill, Prairie Creek and Grayling […]
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Tue 14 May 2024: The Minister of Health, Dr Joe Phaahla, is urging the public to be vigilant as the country has reported a laboratory-confirmed case of monkeypox disease, also known as Mpox. The case involves a 35-year-old male, who resides in the Gauteng and tested positive on 9 May 2024. The case was first […]
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Tue 14 May 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to embark on a two-day journey to China this week, responding to an invitation from Chinese President Xi Jinping, as announced by Beijing’s foreign ministry on Tuesday (May 14). Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying confirmed that President Putin will be in Beijing from Thursday to […]
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Tue 14 May 2024: Former Australian Army lawyer David McBride has been sentenced to five years and eight months for revealing information about alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan. Supporters of McBride have long expressed his concern that the Australian government was more interested in punishing him for revealing information about war crimes rather than […]
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Tue 14 May 2024: The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) around the globe hit a record 75.9 million in 2023, an NGO monitor has found. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said in a report released on Tuesday that 7.7 million people were displaced by disasters and 68.3 million by conflict and violence. The […]
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Mon 13 May 2024: Thousands of people in Canada’s westernmost province of British Columbia (BC) have been evacuated from their homes as authorities warn that a enormous wildfire continues to grow. In a video shared online late on Sunday, Cliff Chapman of the BC Wildfire Service said the Parker Lake Wildfire has exhibited “fast growth and high […]
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Mon 13 May 2024: Oil prices increased on Monday amid moderate investor profit-taking, supply uncertainties from tensions in the Middle East, and the possibility of the OPEC+ group’s extended supply cuts. International benchmark Brent crude traded at $83.09 per barrel at 11.22 a.m. local time (0822 GMT), an increase of 0.36% from the closing price […]
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Mon 13 May 2024: At least 500 medical personnel have been killed since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza on Oct. 7 last year, the Gaza Health Ministry said Sunday as the world marked International Nurses Day. “Here in Palestine and in Gaza in particular, this day passes as the Israeli occupation has killed […]
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Mon 13 May 2024: Over the weekend, western Indonesia was ravaged by hours of relentless rainfall, triggering flash floods and a cold lava flow from a volcano, resulting in the confirmed deaths of at least 41 individuals. According to a local disaster official speaking to AFP news agency, Mount Marapi, the most active volcano on […]
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Mon 13 May 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to remove Sergei Shoigu as defence minister as part of a cabinet reshuffle, making him secretary of the Security Council instead. Andrei Belousov, a former deputy prime minister who specialises in economics, will become the new defence minister, the Kremlin said on Sunday.The shake-up comes as Putin begins […]
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