Tue 15 October 2024: Europa Clipper is headed to Jupiter’s moon, Europa, where an ocean is thought to lie below the surface. The Europa Clipper spacecraft is on an almost six-year, 3 billion kilometres (1.8b miles) mission to learn whether conditions on Jupiter’s moon could sustain life in what scientists believe could be a deep […]
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Tue 15 October 2024: The 2024 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award ceremony took place Monday in Geneva, honoring five trailblazing women for their advocacy on behalf of refugees. Opening the ceremony, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi emphasized the critical need for collective efforts in supporting refugees. Grandi thanked countries such as Türkiye and Egypt […]
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Tue 15 October 2024: The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has warned that over 400,000 Palestinians in northern Gaza are at risk of dying from starvation and thirst due to Israel’s complete siege of the area and ban on the entry of food and water for almost two weeks. Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces continue their large-scale […]
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Tue 15 October 2024: Retired Indian diplomats have expressed surprise at the possibility of a cabinet minister getting involved in ‘operational matters’. On its part, the Canadian side seems even more sure of its case than before with Trudeau now speaking of “clear and compelling evidence”. New Delhi: Canadian officials have told the Indian government that […]
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Tue 15 October 2024: India had recalled its top envoy to Canada after it said diplomats were falsely accused over killing of Sikh dissident. Canada has expelled six Indian diplomats after a police investigation into “criminal activity” uncovered a “campaign of violence” against dissidents. The move had initially been reported by several media outlets on […]
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Mon 14 October 2024: Most finance ministers and Central Bank chiefs from the BRICS group of countries did not attend a high-level meeting in Moscow on Friday ahead of a BRICS summit later this month, sending more junior officials instead, official documents showed, Reuters reports. Finance ministers from Egypt and the United Arab Emirates and the […]
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Mon 14 October 2024: Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday vowed to prevent Hezbollah from returning to fighting positions along the border, even after the Israeli military withdraws from the area. “Even once IDF (military) troops withdraw, we will not allow Hezbollah terrorists to return to these areas,” said Gallant during a visit to an observation post overseeing […]
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Mon 14 October 2024: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated on Sunday that due to North Korea’s arms and people transfers to Russian forces in Ukraine, his country’s defense ties with its allies would need to change. On Thursday, the South Korean claims that North Korea might have sent some military forces to support Russia […]
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Mon 14 October 2024: Kamala Harris is losing ground to Donald Trump with less than a month to go until the election for president of the United States, a series of polls suggest. Harris’s lead over Trump has narrowed or vanished outright as the race for the White House approaches the final stretch, according to […]
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Mon 14 October 2024: Low-income countries still poorer than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, report finds. The world’s 26 poorest countries are deeper in debt than at any time since 2006 and increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters and other shocks, the World Bank has said. The poorest economies are worse off today than they […]
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