Tue 20 February 2024: London’s High Court has scheduled two days of hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday to decide whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may appeal a United States request for extradition to stand trial on espionage charges. Those charges carry maximum penalties of 175 years, but the real danger, says Assange’s wife Stella, is […]
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Tue 20 February 2024: Astroscale Japan announced on Monday that it has successfully launched a spacecraft meant to analyze and perhaps remove man-made space junk from around the Earth. Astroscale-Japan (ADRAS-J) has undertaken an Active Debris Removal program. According to AFP, it will rendezvous with and study a 15-year-old Japanese H2A rocket wreckage in space. […]
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Members of a military council that staged a coup in Niger attend a rally at a stadium in Niamey, Niger, August 6, 2023. Mon 19 February 2024: The West African debt management agency announced on Monday that Niger failed to make a debt payment of 13.4 billion CFA francs ($22 million) last week, raising […]
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Mon 19 February 2024: In the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan, a landslide triggered by intense snowfall has left 25 people dead and eight injured, according to a spokesman for the disaster management ministry on Monday, increasing the initial death toll. In a video footage shared with the media, Janan Sayeq stated, “As a result […]
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Mon 19 February 2024: Argentina’s percentage of the population living in poverty has risen to 57.4%, the highest level in at least 20 years, according to the recent study conducted by the Catholic University of Argentina (UCA) has revealed alarming statistics. The study, which has been reported by regional media, emphasizes the South American country’s […]
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Mon 19 February 2024: Public hearings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Israeli practices in Palestine began on Monday. The public hearings started following the UN General Assembly’s request for an advisory opinion on the legal consequences arising from policies and practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. A […]
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Mon 19 February 2024: Four people in Australia have been taken to hospital after being struck by lightning near the iconic Sydney Opera House, authorities have said. The four victims, including a 36-year-old couple and a 19-year-old man, were sheltering under a tree near the famous landmark during a violent storm on Monday when they […]
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Cillian Murphy, winner of the leading actor award for “Oppenheimer,” at the 77th British Academy Film Awards in London on Sunday.Vianney Le Caer / Invision / AP Mon 19 February 2024: Oppenheimer, a three-hour epic about the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II, has swept the board at the 77th British […]
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Sun 18 February 2024: Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told the African Union summit Heads of State meeting in Ethiopia on Saturday that the African continent is indispensable for the cohesion and progress of the Global South. “My friends, I would like to say that there is no Global South without the African […]
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Sun 18 February 2024: A senior bureaucrat in Pakistan has said he helped rig Pakistan’s elections, a week after polls marred by allegations of manipulation returned no clear winner. On Saturday, Liaqat Ali Chattha, commissioner of the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where the country’s powerful military has its headquarters, said he would hand himself over […]
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