Sat 06 January 2024: The Intercept has published a report detailing the extent of how CNN’s coverage of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip must be reviewed by its bureau in Jerusalem, which abides by the Israeli military’s censor. A spokesperson for the network confirmed to The Intercept that its news coverage about Israel and Palestine is run through and reviewed […]
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Sat 06 January 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a decree on providing citizenship to foreigners contracted to the country’s military since the start of the Ukraine war. The decree, published on the government portal, said foreign citizens that have entered into a contract with the armed forces or other “military formations” since […]
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Fri 05 January 2024: Mourners wept over the coffins of victims of two deadly blasts in Iran as the interior minister said on Friday a number of suspects had been arrested over the attacks claimed by Islamic State. Crowds chanted “revenge, revenge” in state TV footage of the funerals in the city of Kerman, the scene of […]
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Fri 05 January 2024: The United States is offering up to $10 million for information on five Hamas financiers or anything leading to the disruption of the Palestinian group’s financial mechanisms, the State Department said on Friday, Reuters reports. The reward offering follows four rounds of US sanctions on Hamas after the group’s deadly incursion into Israel on 7 […]
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Fri 05 January 2024: After several Nepalis lost their lives defending Moscow against Kyiv, Nepal banned its citizens from traveling Russia and Ukraine. According to the local daily Kathmandu Post, the Department of Foreign Employment in the country issued a notice on Thursday stopping the granting of permits for citizens seeking to work in Russia […]
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Fri 05 January 2024: At least 12,500 Israeli soldiers are predicted to be recognised as “disabled” due to the fighting in Gaza, Israeli outlet Yediot Ahronoth reported on Friday. The “gloomy forecast”, as it described, was presented by a company hired by Israel’s defence ministry to conduct an assessment of injuries among troops. The 12,500 figure is a conservative […]
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Fri 05 January 2024: Kyiv on Friday claimed that Russia conducted airstrikes on Ukraine using North Korean missiles, mirroring a statement made a day earlier by the US. “There is no longer any disguise… As part of its outright genocidal war, the Russian Federation for the first time struck at the territory of Ukraine with […]
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Fri 05 January 2024: Global food prices decreased to nearly a three-year low in December 2023 led by significant declines in prices of sugar, vegetable oils and meat, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) revealed on Friday. The FAO food price index dropped 1.5% from a month earlier to 118.5 points in December 2023, […]
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Fri 05 January 2024: President Cyril Ramaphosa has received the leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), General Mohamed Dagalo of the Republic of Sudan, at his Mahlamba Ndlopfu official residence in Pretoria. “The President welcomed the briefing from General Dagalo and commended the central role of the African Union and IGAD [Intergovernmental Authority on […]
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Fri 05 January 2024: There has been no investigation since Prince Andrew was listed as one of Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplices in court papers revealed by a US court, the Met Police have said. Several of Epstein’s associates are named in the newly revealed court filings, though many of them are not accused of any crime. […]
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