Mon 21 October 2024: Moldova’s referendum on joining the EU goes down to the slimmest margins as preliminary results have shifted to just over 50% of voters being in favor of joining the 27-member bloc. On Sunday, Moldovan citizens headed to the polls for a presidential election in which incumbent President Maia Sandu, seen as […]
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Mon 21 October 2024: British King Charles III faced protest by an Indigenous lawmaker on Monday, telling the monarch the southern Pacific nation was “not” his land. Clad in a fur cloak, Senator Lidia Thorpe raised her voice to make Charles listen to her statement after the monarch delivered his speech in the Australian parliament. […]
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Mon 21 October 2024: Russia will host a summit of the BRICS economic bloc in Kazan on Oct. 22-24, with attendance expected from several world leaders. According to Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov, 32 countries have confirmed their participation, with 24 being represented by their heads of state, while the remaining eight will send high-ranking […]
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Sun 20 October 2024: The United States is investigating the leak of a pair of highly classified intelligence documents describing Israel’s preparations for a retaliatory strike on Iran, House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Sunday, Reuters reports. The documents appear to have been prepared by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, describing US interpretations of Israeli Air Force […]
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Sun 20 October 2024: Reforms undertaken by Nigeria’s government are “essential” but have piled pressure on its people, more than half of whom live in poverty, the World Bank has said. Since coming to power in May 2023, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has introduced reforms aimed at reviving the economy of Africa’s most populous nation. […]
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Sun 20 October 2024: Prabowo Subianto took the oath Sunday as Indonesia’s eighth president, succeeding Joko Widodo who led the country for 10 years and vowing to be “leader of all Indonesians.” The inauguration ceremony was held in Jakarta with foreign dignitaries in attendance. Prabowo, who served as defense minister in Jokowi’s Cabinet, was elected […]
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Sun 20 October 2024: Hezbollah has started reducing its presence in Syria by importing some of its fighters into Lebanon, in an apparent demand for reinforcements amid Israel’s ongoing invasion of Lebanon. According to Turkiye’s Anadolu Agency, which cited unnamed local Syrian sources, Hezbollah is moving hundreds of its fighters to Lebanon from areas in Syria […]
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Sun 20 October 2024: Jean-Marc Rickli, head of global risk at the Geneva Center for Security Policy, says the fact the Israeli leader is pointing the finger at Iran for the attack on his residence in Caesarea could turn into a major escalation. “If we look at the equivalent of Benjamin Netanyahu being attacked by […]
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Sat 19 October 2024: The Israeli army has released a video purporting to show Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar with what the Israeli army says is his family – two children and a woman – walking through a tunnel on October 6, 2023, a day before the Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel. The video is divided […]
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Sat 19 October 2024: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday warned that over three million people are at risk of cholera in Sudan. “3.1 million people, including 500,000 children under 5, are at risk of cholera,” UNICEF said on social platform X. According to UNICEF, the vaccination coverage in Sudan has plummeted to […]
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