Fri 26 April 2024: El Nino-related torrential rains in Tanzania have caused landslides and flooding that have claimed at least 155 lives, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said Thursday. During the current rainy season, Tanzania and other East African nations—which are particularly sensitive to climate change—have been battered by more rain than usual. Dozens of deaths […]
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Fri 26 April 2024: Over 100 prisoners have escaped from a jail in Nigeria that is close to the capital city of Abuja after heavy rains overnight damaged some of the building. According to prisons spokesman Adamu Duza, the several-hour-long downpour on Wednesday night damaged the medium-security prison’s perimeter fence in the town of Suleja, […]
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Thu 25 April 2024: Mass graves found in two hospitals in the Gaza Strip containing 392 bodies, including those of women, children and the elderly, showed signs of torture and executions, officials in the enclave have said. On the sixth consecutive day of digging up bodies in southern Gaza, Palestinian Civil Defence officials on Thursday revealed horrifying […]
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Thu 25 April 2024: World Malaria Day is an occasion to highlight the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment for malaria prevention and control. It was instituted by WHO Member States during the World Health Assembly of 2007. This year the theme for World Malaria Day is “Accelerating the fight against malaria for a […]
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Thu 25 April 2024: Human Rights Watch (HRW) has stated in a new study that 223 civilians, including at least 56 children, were “summarily executed” by Burkina Faso’s military forces in two villages in February. According to the investigation released on Thursday, the mass murders occurred in the northern villages of Nondin and Soro on […]
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Thu 25 April 2024: A top Hamas official, Khalil al-Hayya, has said the group was willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and transform into a political party if a two-state solution is implemented, The Associated Press news agency has reported. Al-Hayya, who made his comments in an interview […]
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Wed 24 April 2024: Tech workers are protesting against the use of artificial intelligence and other technologies by Israel in its war on Gaza. Google employees based in the United States have staged protests at the tech giant’s offices in New York City, California and Seattle to oppose a $1.2bn contract with the Israeli government. […]
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Wed 24 April 2024: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Qatari Foreign Ministry have both dismissed reports alleging that Doha is planning to deport Hamas leaders, Anadolu reported. Speaking to journalists upon his return from Iraq, Erdogan said that he does not believe Qatar will take such a step, adding that the focus should be on […]
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Wed 24 April 2024: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday that he has fully funded plans to increase defense spending every year to 2.5% of the country’s gross domestic product by 2030. At a news conference with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at a military base in Poland, Sunak declared Britain’s commitment to bolstering […]
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Wed 24 April 2024: Seven U.S. states are likely to decide the outcome of the U.S. presidential election between Democratic President Joe Biden and former Republican president Donald Trump in November – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. These states – known as swing states because they swing between Democratic and Republican candidates – play a critical role in determining […]
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