Tue 05 March 2024: Palestinian group, Hamas, on Tuesday rejected accusations by a UN Special envoy for its fighters of sexually assaulting Israeli women during its 7 October cross-border attack into Israel, Anadolu Agency reports. Pramila Patten, the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, said in a report on Monday that there are “reasonable grounds […]
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Tue 05 March 2024: French legislators on Monday voted to explicitly enshrine access to abortion in the Constitution, making their country the first in the world to do so. At total of 780 deputies and senators approved the introduction into Article 34 of the Constitution the sentence: “The law determines the conditions under which the […]
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Tue 05 March 2024: On Monday, the US Supreme Court decided that none of the 50 states could bar Donald Trump from running for president. The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to disallow the former president from running for the state’s Republican presidential primary was unanimously overturned by the nation’s highest court. The state court claimed […]
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Tue 05 March 2024: The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced the sanctions, which target three companies and 11 individuals, including the Mnangagwas his wife, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, and retired Brigadier-General Walter Tapfumaneyi, for alleged corruption and human rights violations. following a review of the sanctions program, which had been in place […]
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Mon 04 March 2024: A new Gallup poll finds Americans’ opinions of Israel have gone down in the past year. According to the poll, 58 percent of Americans have a positive view of Israel, down from 68 percent last year, “the lowest favorable rating for Israel in over two decades”. The demographic that has seen the greatest […]
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Mon 04 March 2024: The Kremlin said on Monday that leaked military discussions between senior German military officers last week suggested that plans by Berlin to attack Russia are being “substantively and specifically” discussed. “This (conversation) in itself suggests that within the Bundeswehr (armed forces), plans to launch strikes on the territory of the Russian […]
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Mon 04 March 2024: World Obesity Day is observed on March 4 every year. Obesity Day tries to raise awareness about this medical condition. The theme for this year’s campaign is “Let’s Talk About Obesity And…” According to the World Health Organisation, in 2022, overweight affect around 37 million children under 5 globally, and over […]
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Mon 04 March 2024: Haiti’s government has declared a state of emergency and enforced a curfew following an outbreak of gang-led violence over the weekend that resulted in the escape of thousands of convicts after assaults on the country’s two largest prisons. Thousands of inmates escaped from a prison in Haiti on Sunday after armed […]
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Mon 04 March 2024: A study conducted by the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem indicates a 35-percent increase in the number of urgent cardiac cases treated at the unit during the first three months of the war in Gaza. The study, published by Israel’s Channel Seven broadcaster, showed that […]
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Mon 04 March 2024: A week ago, attacks on three villages in northern Burkina Faso killed approximately 170 people, according to a regional prosecutor, as violence flared across the country. Aly Benjamin Coulibaly claimed in a statement on Sunday that he had received information of attacks on the villages of Komsilga, Nodin, and Soroe in […]
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