Thu 08 February 2024: Panic is growing in Rafah over an imminent ground invasion after Israel’s prime minister ordered his military to prepare to enter the city in the southern Gaza Strip that is sheltering 1.2 million people with nowhere else to go as he rejected Hamas’s truce plan and rebuffed US efforts to reach […]
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Thu 08 February 2024: President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to announce the date for the 2024 national elections within 15 days of the State of the Nation Address, which is to be delivered tomorrow evening. “We look forward to the President delivering the State of the Nation Address tomorrow at 7pm. It it will be […]
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Wed 07 February 2024: Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the terms of a ceasefire in Gaza proposed by Hamas and rebuffed US pressure to move more quickly towards a mediated settlement to the war, saying there could be no solution to Israel’s security issues except “absolute victory” over the militant group. The Israeli prime minister also […]
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Wed 07 February 2024: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday promised to step up efforts to counter racism and right-wing extremism in the country. “Right-wing extremism is a major threat to our democracy and social peace. It wants to divide us, turn us against each other, and we will not allow that to happen,” Scholz […]
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Wed 07 February 2024: A day before parliamentary elections are scheduled to take place, two bombs targeting the election headquarters of an independent candidate and a political party in southwest Pakistan have left over fifty people injured and at least twenty-eight dead. The first attack, which killed 16 people, took place at the office of […]
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Wed 07 February 2024: A right-wing Hindu group in Rajasthan’s Ajmer has claimed that Ajmer Dargah was actually a Hindu temple. Rajvardhan Singh Parmar, president of the Hindu right-wing ‘Maharana Pratap Sena’ in Ajmer said that Ajmer Dargah is a “sacred Hindu temple”. He also held a press conference recently, making similar claims. This comes […]
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Wed 07 February 2024: Germany wants to prevent Russia from destabilizing the Western Balkans region, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said Tuesday. ”We want to prevent Russia from causing an additional crisis, destabilization, from abusing this region to expand its influence, hoping to destabilize the West in this way,” Pistorius said in Bosnia’s capital, Sarajevo. “Germany […]
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Wed 07 February 2024: It’s another day of farmers’ protests and debates over the future of agriculture in Europe. From Spain to Bulgaria, farmers want to have their voices heard. Meanwhile, the European parliament is debating empowering farmers and rural communities. A group of farmers held a demonstration Tuesday outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, angry […]
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Wed 07 February 2024: A Japanese defense and aviation company on Tuesday announced it is ending a strategic cooperation pact with Israeli military tech company Elbit Systems in the wake of last month’s interim International Court of Justice ruling on Israel. “We have currently suspended any new activities related to the memorandum of understanding and […]
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Wed 07 February 2024: Ukraine on Tuesday said it nationalized assets belonging to a Russian oligarch worth $13.2 million. The State Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said in a statement that all of Eduard Khudainatov’s shares in the Alliance-Ukraine Oil Company LLC, which it said is estimated at almost 500 million Ukrainian hryvnias, was directed […]
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