Sat 16 December 2023: Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah has died at 86. “With great sadness and sorrow, we – the Kuwaiti people, the Arab and Islamic nations, and the friendly peoples of the world – mourn the late His Highness the emir, Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, who passed […]
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Sat 16 December 2023: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday promised “harsh” punishment for foreign interference in next year’s election, where he will seek to extend his decades-long grip on power into the 2030s. “Any interference in Russia’s internal affairs will be punished, and punished harshly, according to Russian laws,” Putin said during a meeting […]
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Photo: Loay Ayyoub/The Washington Post via Getty Images] Sat 16 December 2023: Families have turned to burying the bodies of their relatives killed in Israeli airstrikes in makeshift mass graves scattered throughout the Gaza Strip. The burials in makeshift graves are due to the difficulty of reaching cemeteries because of the ongoing aggression. Palestinians […]
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Sat 16 December 2023: Washington is pushing Israel to focus the war in Gaza on precise targeting of Hamas leaders rather than widespread bombing and ground operations, the White House national security adviser said on Friday, amid signs of differences over timing. Israel has so far resisted increasing global pressure to rein in the Gaza […]
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Sat 16 December 2023: More than half of South Sudan’s population is starving, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Monday. An estimated 1.6 million children are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition through June of 2024, the office said. It added that this year’s humanitarian appeal to help 7.4 million […]
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Fri 15 December 2023: A West African court has ruled that the ousted president of Niger, Mohamed Bazoum, and his family have been arbitrarily detained and called for his reinstatement. Bazoum was overthrown by members of his presidential guard on July 26 and has been detained at home with his wife and child since. The […]
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Fri 15 December 2023: The Duke of Sussex has been awarded £140,600 ($154,146) after bringing a phone hacking claim against a tabloid newspaper publisher at the High Court. Justice Fancourt says directors “turned a blind eye and positively concealed” unlawful information gathering. He has concluded there was “extensive” phone hacking, generally by Mirror Group Newspapers […]
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File photo. A Palestinian fighter of Al-Quds brigades, the military wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), takes position in a military tunnel near the rally marking the first anniversary of the May 2021 conflict between Israel and Gaza, in Beit Hanun, northern Gaza Strip, 18 May 2022. [EPA-EFE/MOHAMMED SABER] Fri 15 December 2023: The […]
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Fri 15 December 2023: At least 12 Iranian security personnel have been killed in an attack on a police station in the southeastern border province of Sistan-Baluchestan. Alireza Marhamati, deputy governor of the province, said on Friday that senior police officers and soldiers were killed and injured in the 2am (22:30 GMT Thursday) attack in […]
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Thu 14 December 2023: Islamabad, Pakistan – The Pakistani government has announced that undocumented Afghans awaiting paperwork to resettle to a third country will be allowed to stay in Pakistan for two more months. The extension of the deadline on Wednesday from the end of this year to February 29 comes amid Pakistan’s drive to expel […]
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