Sat 20 January 2024: A United Nations human rights official has called for an end to the mistreatment of Palestinian detainees by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, who were subjected to weeks of imprisonment in unknown locations and physical abuse. Palestinian men were held by Israeli forces for between 30 to 55 days, Ajith […]
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Sat 20 January 2024: A suspected Israeli airstrike struck a residential building in Damascus, with preliminary indications indicating multiple casualties, Syrian state media reported. Several members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have been killed in an air strike on a residential building in Syria’s capital, Damascus, according to Iranian state media. It further […]
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Fri 19 January 2024: Over 350,000 people in the Republic of Congo require immediate humanitarian help as a result of recent heavy rains, the UN said on Friday. Calling the flood disaster in the country “unprecedented in scale for six decades,” Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), […]
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Fri 19 January 2024: The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) hopes for a precise landing of its Smart Lander call “Moon Sniper” for Investigating Moon (SLIM) probe within 100 metres (328 feet) of the designated target, a technology it describes as unprecedented and critical for advancing lunar exploration, particularly the search for lunar water and […]
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Fri 19 January 2024: Bitcoin mining around the globe last year consumed 154.9 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in total, or more than 167 countries combined, according to data from the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (CBECI) compiled by Anadolu. Bitcoin mining refers to the computational process of solving as “cryptographic hash functions,” similar to mathematical problems. […]
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Fri 19 January 2024: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the United States that he opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state as part of any post-war scenario, underscoring divisions between the allies three months into Israel’s relentless military assault on Gaza. In a nationally broadcast news conference on Thursday, Netanyahu pledged to press ahead […]
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Thu 18 January 2024: The African Union (AU) chief, on Wednesday, announced the appointment of a three-member group tasked with resolving the ongoing conflict in Sudan, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement, Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat, said the panel would work with all the warring parties in Sudan, including “all civilian forces and military belligerents”, to end […]
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Thu 18 January 2024: Pakistan on Thursday said that Islamabad has “no interest in escalating any situation” with Tehran after the country’s military carried out strikes against “terrorist hideouts” inside Iran. “Pakistan considers people of Iran as our friends and brothers and we have no interest in escalating any situation,” said Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, the […]
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Thu 18 January 2024: The UK government, on Wednesday, defended its contentious Rwanda Bill, dismissing the latest UN analysis that labelled it incompatible with international refugee law, Anadolu Agency reports. During a press briefing for foreign journalists, a spokesperson addressed Anadolu’s questions, asserting that the legislation, considered “the toughest immigration measure brought to Parliament, is a necessary deterrent.” The […]
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Thu 18 January 2024: About half of the soldiers in an Israeli army reserve battalion have reportedly refused to enter the besieged Gaza Strip and engage in fighting there claiming they have not received the correct training to do so, the Hebrew Kan Reshet Bet radio reported on Wednesday. “Reservist fighters who were called to training […]
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