Sat 17 August 2024: Abdul Salam Haniyeh, the son of the late head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, has revealed new information about his father’s assassination in Tehran. Abdul Salam shared in statements to Al Arabiya channel that his father was killed by a missile attack via his mobile phone, adding: “It was a guided […]
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Sat 17 August 2024: -Sudanese women face sexual assault while fleeing displacement, those detained during migration also suffer sexual violence, Mona Rishmawi tells Anadolu ISTANBUL Parties involved in the civil war in Sudan since April 2023 often use sexual assault and violence as a weapon of war. Mona Rishmawi, a member of the UN Independent […]
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Sat 17 August 2024: In a virtual meeting on Friday, U.S. officials vowed to bolster direct support to Myanmar’s opposition movement, aiming to facilitate a transition to civilian government. The U.S. State Department emphasized the need to maintain pressure on Myanmar’s military junta, which has held power since a 2021 coup derailed the nation’s path […]
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Sat 17 August 2024: A groundbreaking study has revealed that approximately 4.4 billion people across the globe do not have access to safe drinking water. This alarming statistic was published on Thursday in the Science journal by a team of researchers, including Esther Greenwood from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. According […]
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Fri 16 August 2024: A suicide bomber’s deadly attack killed 16 pro-government soldiers and wounded 18 others at a military post in Yemen’s southern Abyan province, local authorities reported. Mohamed al-Naqib, spokesperson for the Southern Transitional Council (STC), described the incident, stating that the attacker “drove a booby-trapped car into a site for the security […]
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Fri 16 August 2024: Indian doctors have called for a nationwide shutdown of hospital services as public fury over the rape and murder of a trainee medic in the eastern city of Kolkata last week mounts. The Indian Medical Association (IMA), the country’s largest grouping of medics with 400,000 members, said the 24-hour shutdown would […]
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Fri 16 August 2024: The Gaza war has cost the Israeli economy over $67.3 billion, Israeli economists said on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports. “The war has already cost the Israeli economy more than NIS 250 billion ($67.3 billion), and the defence establishment wants an annual increase of at least NIS 20 billion ($5.39 billion),” Rakefet Russak-Aminoach, the […]
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Fri 16 August 2024: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, on Thursday condemned the ongoing Israeli violence in the war-torn Gaza Strip, revealing that nearly 130 people have died daily since 7 October, Anadolu Agency reports. “On average, about 130 people have been killed every day in Gaza over the past 10 months. The scale […]
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Fri 16 August 2024: The World Health Organization (WHO) regional director for Europe warned on Thursday that mpox could spread to other countries after Sweden confirmed the first case of infectious viral disease outside of Africa. Sweden early Thursday reported the first case of the more contagious variant of mpox outside of Africa, just a […]
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Fri 16 August 2024: Pakistan’s military has said it arrested three retired officers in connection with the investigation into former spy chief Faiz Hameed, who faces a court-martial on charges of corruption and misuse of power. The arrests were tied to the proceedings against Hameed, who led the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency, for “actions […]
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