Wed 29 October 2023: Speaking at a news conference in Brussels, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says his country is “sending humanitarian assistance to Gaza to make sure its people have what they need to get by”. “Looking at the next couple of days, we’ll be focused on doing what we can to extend […]
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Wed 29 October 2023: The 11th edition of the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), of which Anadolu Agency is the Global Communication Partner, kicked off on Tuesday in the Qatari capital Doha. The opening session of the two-day summit being held at the Qatar National Convention Center featured Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, the co-founder […]
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Wed 29 October 2023: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed strong support for Africa on Tuesday, saying the United Nations is ready to work with the African Union to bolster cooperation. “Africa has been the double victim of injustice. First of all, historic injustice linked to colonialism and to slavery. And second, the present injustice in […]
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Wed 29 October 2023: Alarming new data, issued by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Tuesday, shows a significant rise in the risk of coastal flooding, Xinhua reported. Over the past two decades, sea level rise has already increased the flood risk for 14 million people in coastal areas. This risk is expected to […]
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Wed 29 October 2023: Pope Francis has called for a continuation of the truce in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, according to Vatican News. “I hope that the truce in Gaza might continue so that all the hostages might be freed, and the necessary humanitarian aid might be able to enter,” the pope said at […]
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Tue 28 October 2023: Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has accused Israel’s army of taking organs from deceased individuals in the Gaza Strip, and urging for an impartial international inquiry to be conducted. On Sunday, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor expressed worries over the potential theft of organs from Palestinian corpses, based on reports from medical experts […]
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Tue 28 October 2023: Six teenagers have gone on trial behind closed doors in connection with the beheading of French history teacher Samuel Paty. The murder, which shocked the country, took place in 2020 after the teacher had shown his pupils caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in a class on freedom of expression. Paty, 47, […]
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Tue 28 October 2023: With the COP28 climate summit set to start on Thursday, African scientists and young people are urging leaders to transition the African continent from relying on fossil fuels to 100% renewable energy. In an open letter to African heads of state and governments released in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Monday, […]
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Tue 28 October 2023: North Korea said on Tuesday that its military spy satellite photographed different US facilities and installations, including the White House and Pentagon. On November 25-28, the National Aerospace Technology Administration briefed North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on the operations of the spy satellite. Last week, North Korea said it “successfully” launched […]
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Mon 27 October 2023: Any new United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members should come from developing countries, Russian media reported Monday, citing Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the Primakov Readings International Forum in Moscow. “It is important to redress the historical injustices that emerged following the end of the decolonization process and since the emergence […]
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