Thu 28 December 2023: India’s government has used the highly invasive Pegasus spyware to target high-profile journalists, according to a new investigation by Amnesty International and The Washington Post. The findings, published on Thursday, noted India’s repeated use of Pegasus against journalists, including one who was previously a victim of an attack using the same spyware. Created […]
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Thu 28 December 2023: The United States has seen an uptick in flu and COVID-19 cases amid holidays, and health experts are concerned about the increasing health risks brought by the simultaneous spread of respiratory illnesses. The amount of respiratory illnesses causing people to seek healthcare is elevated or increasing across most areas of the […]
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Thu 28 December 2023: The UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) has said that 40% of Gaza’s population is now at risk of famine. In a post on social media, the agency said: “Gaza is grappling with catastrophic hunger. 40% of the population are now at risk of famine. The reality is, we need more […]
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Map of the land bridge that could see trucks traverse from the port of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, across Saudi Arabia and Jordan, into Israel, and Egypt. (Trucknet). Thu 28 December 2023: This month, Trucknet Enterprise, an Israeli smart transportation company, forged agreements to enable the transfer of goods from the Persian […]
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Wed 27 December 2023: A new coronavirus subvariant JN.1 is spreading fast in the United States, and is now accounting for nearly half of the latest COVID-19 cases in the country, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). JN.1 is currently the fastest growing variant and the dominant one in the […]
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Wed 27 December 2023: The World Food Program (WFP) has said it requires 364 million U.S. dollars in net funding across all activities to scale up humanitarian assistance in Somalia between December 2023 and May 2024. The WFP said in its latest report released on Tuesday night that out of the figure, its urgent funding […]
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Wed 27 December 2023: In March of this year, Ukraine asked its European allies for a quarter of a million shells a month. Its full battle plan, then-Defence minister Oleksiy Reznikov said, required at least 350,000. Ukraine was then rationing itself to just 110,000 a month and needed Europe to help make up the difference. […]
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Wed 27 December 2023: Israelallows non-Israeli Jewish individuals to voluntarily join military service, an army spokesperson told Anadolu, without disclosing the number of foreign mercenaries currently serving, as a debate has erupted following a French lawmaker filing a criminal complaint and South Africa threatening to revoke the nationalities of nationals taking part in the conflict. Amid Israel’s ongoing […]
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Abu Obeida — spokesman for Hamas’ military wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigade (FILE PHOTO). Wed 27 December 2023: Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Wednesday denied Iranian claims that its Oct. 7 attack against Israel was in revenge for the killing of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in 2020. Soleimani was assassinated in a US […]
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Wed 27 December 2023: Abuja, Nigeria – On October 30, oil-rich Rivers State, Nigeria’s oil capital, became the latest hub of political drama in the country following the state parliament’s attempted impeachment of Siminalayi Fubara, who had been governor for only five months. The impeachment notice was signed by 24 of 32 lawmakers, all loyal to […]
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