Sun 28 April 2024: Bangladesh experienced its longest heat wave in recorded history this April with forecasts showing no improvement for the rest of the month, according to meteorologists. Md. Bazlur Rashid, a meteorologist at the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, told Anadolu that heat waves swept across the entire country for 27 days straight until Saturday. […]
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Sat 27 April 2024: More than two years after Russia began a “special military operation” in Ukraine, Kyiv has recaptured 54% of occupied territory. But counteroffensive efforts have stalled amid Moscow’s advancements on the eastern and southern fronts. The war-torn country would not be able to manage to fight off the Russians without military aid from other countries. The EU‘s 27 members […]
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Sat 27 April 2024: The four-day meeting of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group started on Saturday in the Saudi capital Riyadh, Anadolu Agency reports. Finance ministers, Islamic finance experts, and representatives from financial institutions, the private sector and non-governmental organisations gathered to mark the group’s annual meeting and golden jubilee celebration. This year’s theme is “Cherishing […]
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Sat 27 April 2024: The UN on Friday issued a stark warning on the escalating situation in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur in Sudan, saying the area is “already on the brink of famine.” “We are receiving increasingly alarming reports of a dramatic escalation of tensions between armed actors in El Fasher, North […]
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Sat 27 April 2024: Paramedics and rescue teams involved in the recovery of civilian bodies from mass graves at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, located in the southern Gaza Strip, have raised concerns about potential organ theft by Israeli forces. Following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Khan Yunis city, three mass graves […]
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Fri 26 April 2024: French authorities have been conducting evictions of migrants and refugees from areas in the capital Paris, apparently in preparation for the country’s hosting of the Olympic Games in three months. In recent weeks, police and gendarmes in Paris have been seen entering and clearing makeshift camps located throughout the city, such […]
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Former SA President Nelson Mandela’s grandson joined the Freedom Flotilla, which is set to sail to break the Israeli blockade on Gaza. Fri 26 April 2024: Organisers say the initiative aims to challenge Israel’s 17-year-old blockade and put an end to the ongoing ‘genocide’. A flotilla of ships set to depart for the Gaza […]
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Fri 26 April 2024: A slight majority of Americans (53 percent) have little or no confidence in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to do the right thing regarding world affairs, including 25% who have no confidence in him at all, according to a Pew Research Center survey. This compared to 21% of Americans who said they have […]
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Fri 26 April 2024: Dangerous levels of acute hunger affected a staggering 281.6 million people last year – the fifth year in a row that food insecurity has worsened – heightening growing fears of famine and “widespread death” from Gaza to Sudan and beyond, UN agencies warned on Wednesday. According to the latest Global Report […]
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CCTV footage shows group of girls stealing croissants in East Sussex on 18 July, 2022 Fri 26 April 2024: There is currently an alarming rise in criminal activity in the United Kingdom, including record-breaking rates of shoplifting and property and a commercial robberies. The UK saw a record high of nearly 1,200 shoplifting incidents each […]
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