Tue 27 February 2024: In a significant development, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Sunday, February 25, officially inaugurated the Grand Mosque of Algiers on its Mediterranean coastline after years of delay amid political turmoil. It is considered the biggest mosque in Africa and third largest in the world after the Grand Mosque in Makkah and Prophet’s Mosque […]
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Tue 26 February 2024: Google is under fire from followers of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “biased” responses by its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) tool, sparking calls for tough control of the new technology’s drawbacks. A response from Google’s AI platform suggesting that some experts believe the policies of the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, […]
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Representational image Mon 26 February 2024: The AFP news agency has been informed by local and security sources that scores of Muslims were killed in an attack on a mosque in eastern Burkina Faso on the same day as another horrific attack on Catholics attending mass. A security source told the AFP on Monday […]
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Mon 26 February 2024: Denmark has closed its investigation into the 2022 explosions on the Nord Stream pipelines, police said on Monday. Although the investigation had found that the blasts were the result of sabotage, there were insufficient grounds to bring the matter to court in Denmark, the Danish police said in a press release. […]
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Mon 26 February 2024: A US military service member who had set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, in an apparent act of protest against Israel’s war in Gaza, has died, the Pentagon said. The 25-year-old airman, Aaron Bushnell, of San Antonio, Texas, died from his injuries, the Metropolitan Police Department said […]
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Mon 26 February 2024: President Mahmoud Abbas has received the resignation of the Palestinian cabinet, according to a statement made by Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh on Monday. “The upcoming stage requires new governmental and political arrangements that take into account the developments in the Gaza Strip,” Shtayyeh said during a Cabinet session in the […]
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Mon 26 February 2024: The humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is deteriorating rapidly, a UN spokesman said on Friday. Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, highlighted the grave concerns at the regular press briefing. “The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said today it is gravely concerned by the […]
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Qatar is one of the world’s top LNG producers alongside the US, Australia and Russia [File Photo] Mon 26 February 2024: Qatar has announced new plans to expand output from the world’s biggest natural gas field, saying it will boost capacity to 142 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) before 2030. The new North Field […]
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Mon 26 February 2024: New Delhi, India – India averaged nearly two anti-Muslim hate speech events per day in 2023 and three in every four of those events – or 75 percent – took place in states ruled by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, revealed a report released Monday. In 2023, the hate […]
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Mon 26 February 2024: In the last two years, 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have lost their lives fighting Russia, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said on Sunday. Speaking at a forum in the capital Kyiv, Zelenskyy said, 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers “have died in this war.” “Not 300,000 or 150,000, or whatever (Russian President Vladimir) Putin and […]
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