Wed 14 February 2024: The World Health Organization’s (WHO) director-general spoke Monday at the World Governments Summit in the United Arab Emirates, saying a “litany of lies and conspiracy theories” is a major barrier to getting an agreement on how to tackle a new pandemic such as COVID-19. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made his speech at […]
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Wed 14 February 2024: Following decades of study and trials, a groundbreaking malaria vaccine is being pushed out across West Africa in a major effort to eradicate the disease, which is the continent’s second leading cause of infant mortality. On January 22, health workers in Cameroon began gathering babies and children below five years of […]
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Tue 13 February 2024: The US Senate has passed a $95 billion bill containing aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The long-delayed measure won approval from the upper house early on Tuesday. The legislation will now head to the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, where its chances of becoming law are slim. The bill, which would […]
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Tue 13 February 2024: Indian security personnel used tear gas to disperse thousands of farmers protesting on New Delhi after negotiations with the administration failed. “We do not want to break any barricades. We want resolution of our issues through dialogue. But if they [the government] do nothing then what will we do? It is […]
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Tue 13 February 2024: Israeli soldiers seized 200 million shekels ($54.29 million) from the Bank of Palestine headquarters in Gaza City, according to an Israeli newspaper on Sunday. Maariv newspaper, citing Israeli officers, said a military force took the funds allocated for the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority after coming under fire in al-Rimal neighborhood last week. […]
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Tue 13 February 2024: World Radio Day is celebrated each year on the 13th of February. Since the first radio waves, It’s been more than a century of powerful impact upon news, drama, music, and sports. World Radio Day was instituted following a proclamation in 2011 by the member states of UNESCO. This was later […]
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Mon 12 February 2024: The price of bitcoin rocketed beyond $50,000 today, as investors continue to pile into new spot ETFs which received approval last month. It marks a significant turnaround for the cryptocurrency which fell to a low of $16,000 in the wake of the collapse of FTX in 2022. In 2023, it languished between $20,000 […]
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Mon 12 February 2024: Roads leading to New Delhi have been blocked by Indian police as farmers march toward the nation’s capital to demand better government assistance. Government ministers were scheduled to meet with union leaders on Monday to address their demands for higher crop prices, which were promised three years ago, amid protests aimed […]
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Mon 12 February 2024: The British government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is fundamentally incompatible with the country’s human rights obligations, according to a joint committee report released today. “Measures intended to remove barriers to sending individuals to Rwanda, including mandating that courts treat Rwanda as a ‘safe’ country and limiting access to […]
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Mon 12 February 2024: Two former Guantanamo Bay prison inmates returned to their home country, Afghanistan, from Oman on Monday, local media reported. The two Afghan nationals, Mullah Abdul Zahir Saber and Abdul Kareem, who had been arrested in 2002, were released from the Guantanamo Bay detention center in 2017, and shifted to an unspecified […]
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