Tue 18 June 2024: While the new government includes parties neutral about Israel’s war on Gaza, ANC insists it will still support Palestine. Cape Town, South Africa – When South Africa, under its ruling African National Congress (ANC) party, took Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in January on allegations of genocide in Gaza, it drew […]
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Tue 18 June 2024: Tens of thousands of Muslim minority Rohingya are feared to be caught in fighting in western Myanmar, as a powerful armed ethnic group bears down on junta positions in a coastal town on the border with Bangladesh, which is reluctant to accept them. The Arakan Army (AA), which is fighting for […]
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Tue 18 June 2024: The world’s nine nuclear-armed states have raised their reliance on nuclear weapons, a watchdog has said. A report released by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on Monday said the states increased their spending on modernising their atomic arsenals by one-third last year. The watchdog pointed to the contribution of the […]
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Mon 17 June 2024: British-born Tauqir Sharif runs a humanitarian aid organisation in war-torn Syria. When the British government revokes his citizenship over alleged ties to al-Qaeda, he decides to appeal but is forced by circumstances to boycott his own trial. Soon after, his worst fears are realised when he is arrested by a powerful […]
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Mon 17 June 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin, who hosted North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Moscow last September, is expected to visit Pyongyang this week, Yonhap news reported on Monday. Speculations run high that Putin could make a two-day trip to the state starting Tuesday, the South Korean news agency said. Moscow and Pyongyang, […]
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Mon 17 June 2024: Climate skeptics are scapegoating a weather modification technique known as cloud seeding to deny the role of global warming in historic floods that have recently devastated countries from Brazil to Kenya. Record rainfall brought to some regions by the natural weather cycle El Nino matches an expected increase in extreme events, […]
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Mon 17 June 2024: Rescue operation or massacre? Wikipedia editors clash over the recent Israeli raid in the central Gaza refugee camp. A fierce “edit war” has broken out on Wikipedia over a page dedicated to a deadly Israeli raid in the Nuseirat refugee camp near Deir el-Balah in central Gaza on the morning of June 8. […]
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Mon 17 June 2024: Reuters news agency investigation reveals how US military launched a clandestine programme during the pandemic to discredit China’s medical efforts. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, a nation hit especially […]
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Sun 16 June 2024: Russian special forces freed two prison guards and killed several hostage-takers at a pre-trial detention center in Rostov-on-Don. The guards were seized by six detainees earlier on Sunday. Initially, negotiations were attempted, but the siege ended with a special operation. “The criminals were eliminated,” stated Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service, confirming the […]
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Sun 16 June 2024: China’s President Xi Jinping told European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen that Washington was trying to “goad Beijing into attacking Taiwan,” the Financial Times said on Saturday. In a report based on information from people familiar with the matter, the British daily said Xi issued the warning in a meeting […]
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