Fri 14 June 2024: The Israeli war on Gaza has left the occupation entity struggling with a severe economic crisis, which has now made its way to the settlers themselves with no solutions in sight, Bloomberg said in a report. After Operation Al-Aqsa Flood in October 2023, tens of thousands of Israelis residing in Gaza’s […]
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Fri 14 June 2024: Reports are gushing in about Saudi Arabia planning to drop the petrodollar for the Chinese yuan in an economic pivot toward East Asia and away from the US, but experts have stressed that the story is not as it seems with relations with Washington apparently on the mend. Back in March, The Wall Street Journal reported […]
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Thu 13 June 2024: A group of cancer victims asked a federal judge to block Johnson & Johnson’s proposed bankruptcy settlement of tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging the company’s baby powder and other talc products caused their illnesses, according to a court filing. The plaintiffs filed a motion late on Tuesday in a New […]
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Thu 13 June 2024: Over 1.5 million pilgrims have so far arrived in Saudi Arabia for this year’s Hajj season, the Kingdom’s General Directorate of Passports announced on Tuesday. The directorate said that up until Monday, June 10, the number of pilgrims that entered the Kingdom through the air, land and sea ports reached 1,547,295. Breakdown of […]
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Thu 13 June 2024: Apple is facing criticism from a group of self-described workers, former employees and shareholders who are calling on the tech giant to halt donations to non-profit organisations linked to Israel’s military onslaught on the Palestinians in Gaza and its ongoing illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Details of the row […]
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Thu 13 June 2024: A poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research has also found that nearly 80 percent of Gaza residents polled say that at least one of their family members has been killed or injured in the current Israeli war. Nevertheless, two-thirds of the public support the October 7 Hamas […]
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Wed 12 June 2024: More than 80 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have died after the boat they were travelling on sank, President Felix Tshisekedi has announced. The accident on Wednesday occurred on the Kwa River, about 70km (43 miles) from the city of Mushie in Mai-Ndombe province. “The President of […]
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Wed 12 June 2024: Hamas formally responded on Tuesday to a US ceasefire proposal for the eight-month-old war in the Gaza Strip, and Israel said the response was tantamount to a rejection, while a Hamas official said the Palestinian group merely reiterated long-standing demands not met by the current plan, Reuters reports. Egypt and Qatar said they had […]
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Wed 12 June 2024: Charity Oxfam urged wealthy nations to boost spending on ending hunger ahead of a Group of Seven (G7) annual summit set to kick off in Italy tomorrow, saying that just three per cent of G7 military spending could help solve the global food and debt crisis, Reuters reports. The G7 – comprising the […]
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An artisanal miner walks towards a trench at a mining site in Zimbabwe [File: Zinyange Auntony/AFP] Wed 12 June 2024: Shamva, Zimbabwe – On a winter’s morning in Shamva, in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland Central province, Brenda, a single mother of three, is on the hunt for lithium ore. The 39-year-old, who asked that only her first […]
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