Sun 04 February 2024: The death toll from Ukraine’s shelling of a bakery in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region has risen to 28, Moscow said Sunday. “In Lysychansk, the search and rescue operation continues at the site of the collapse of the bakery building … 28 people, including one child, died,” said a statement by Russia’s […]
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Sun 04 February 2024: The funding bill, offered by a House appropriations panel, could come to a vote in the full House sometime next week, Speaker Mike Johnson said in a letter to members. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives had previously approved $14.3 billion in new military aid to Israel amid its war on Gaza, […]
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A person holds a sign during a protest outside the Indian consulate in Vancouver in September 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck Sun 04 February 2024: Canada’s inquiry into foreign interference in its last two federal elections has named India and China and called for Ottawa to “do more”, according to a top secret briefing report obtained […]
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Sun 04 February 2024: Namibian President Hage Geingob passed away at the age of 82, less than three weeks after it was revealed he would receive cancer treatment. Geingob’s wife and children were by his side when he passed away on Sunday at Lady Pohamba Hospital in Windhoek, according to a statement released on Geingob’s […]
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Sun 04 February 2024: UNICEF, on Friday, said that amid the carnage from daily attacks in Gaza and the fog of war, tens of thousands of minors are unaccompanied or separated from their families, Anadolu Agency reports. “Our estimates indicate that 17,000 children in Gaza are unaccompanied or separated from their families,” Jonathan Crickx, UNICEF’s top spokesman […]
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MAXAR TECHNOLGIES Sat 03 February 2024: Satellite imagery analysed by the United Nations Satellite Centre shows that 30 per cent of the Gaza Strip’s buildings have been destroyed or damaged in the Israel offensive in the densely populated Palestinian enclave, Reuters reports. Israel’s assault, launched in response to attacks by Hamas in southern Israel on 7 October, […]
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Sat 03 February 2024: The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said, on Friday, it was receiving reports of people dying of starvation in Sudan and that the number of hungry people has doubled over the past year as a war has cut off civilians from aid, Reuters reports. WFP called on Sudan’s warring factions, the Sudanese army […]
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Sat 03 February 2024: In response to the rapidly spreading forest fires in the country’s center that have already claimed the lives of at least ten people, Chile has declared a state of emergency. President Gabriel Boric announced the measure on X, posting that “all forces are deployed in the fight against the forest fires.” […]
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Sat 03 February 2024: A former CIA software engineer has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for leaking classified information and possessing child sexual abuse material. Joshua Schulte, 35, was found guilty in 2022 of four counts each of espionage and computer hacking and one count of lying to FBI agents after handing over […]
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Sat 03 February 2024: The United States military has launched dozens of air strikes against targets in Syria and Iraq in the first retaliation for a drone attack that killed three soldiers at a remote US base in Jordan. “At my direction, US military forces struck targets at facilities in Iraq and Syria that the […]
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