Fri 15 March 2024: The United Nations is calling for more donations for Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh. In its annual response plan to the crisis, the UN appealed for $852.4m to provide food and other aid to the mostly Muslim Rohingya refugees and their host communities. Bangladesh has taken in more than a million […]
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Fri 15 March 2024: Pope Francis issued a fresh condemnation of all wars on Wednesday, days after irking Kyiv and Western capitals for appearing to suggest that Ukraine should surrender and negotiate peace with its Russian invader, Reuters reports. Francis had told Swiss broadcaster, RSI, that Ukraine should “show the courage of the white flag” and open talks with Russia, but his deputy Cardinal, Pietro Parolin, […]
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Thu 14 March 2024: A Russian court has fined Google 4 million rubles ($43,680) for failing to block access to certain content banned in Russia. The court found Google guilty of failing to comply with the law by not restricting access to some prohibited content on YouTube. “Google LLC. was found guilty of committing an […]
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Thu 14 March 2024: The number of children who died before the age of five globally reached a historic low of 4.9 million in 2022, according to the latest estimates released on Wednesday by the United Nations (UN) Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. A report by the Group found that the global under-five mortality […]
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Thu 14 March 2024: The US held secret talks with Iran to end Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, the Financial Times reports. US and Iranian officials told the newspaper that indirect negotiations took place in Oman in January, where the US pressed Iran to use its influence over the Houthi movement. Omani officials shuttled […]
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Illustrative: Israeli soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip in an undated handout photo released by the military on January 2, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces) Thu 14 March 2024: Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari says that there are plans to push a significant amount of the more than one million displaced Palestinians in Rafah toward […]
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TikTok users watch the House vote during a protest outside the Capitol in Washington, DC Thu 14 March 2024: In a latest blow to big tech and China, the US House of Representatives passed a bill by an overwhelming majority that would outlaw the social networking site TikTok nationwide. The law was overwhelmingly supported […]
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Wed 13 March 2024: South Africa’s foreign minister has said that any of her country’s citizens who fight with the Israeli armed forces in Gaza will be arrested when they return home. Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor made the comments earlier this week at a Palestinian solidarity event attended by officials from South Africa’s governing African […]
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Wed 13 March 2024: South Africa has no regrets about becoming the first country to file a lawsuit against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to end its “deadly and relentless genocidal bombardment” of Gaza. This is according to Deputy President Paul Mashatile who attended a question and answer session in the […]
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Wed 13 March 2024: US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are headed for a rematch after both clinched their respective party’s nominations on Tuesday. Both candidates were projected to win their primaries in the states of Georgia, Mississippi and Washington, giving them the magic numbers they needed to clinch, according to multiple […]
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