Thu 06 June 2024: Some Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to drink sewage water and eat animal feed, the World Health Organisation’s regional director said yesterday. Dr Hanan Balkhy called for an urgent increase in humanitarian aid to the besieged territory. She also warned that Israel’s war on Gaza is having a broader impact on healthcare […]
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Wed 05 June 2024: The Israeli army on Wednesday expanded its incursion into Rafah in the southernmost of the Gaza Strip, along with advancing toward the eastern areas of the Bureij and Maghazi refugee camps, central the strip. An Anadolu correspondent quoted eyewitnesses that confirmed the Israeli military vehicles’ advancement toward the “Eastern Garage” area […]
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Wed 05 June 2024: United States lawmakers have passed legislation that aims to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) due to its efforts to prosecute Israeli officials for war crimes in Gaza. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted 247-155 in favour of the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act on Tuesday. The bill would bar US entry […]
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Some 2,000 people are thought to have been buried when mud and rocks gave way in the early hours of Friday morning [UNDP via AFP] Wed 05 June 2024: Papua New Guinea has officially halted the search for approximately 2,000 people buried under a massive landslide in Enga province, authorities said on Wednesday. Much […]
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Wed 05 June 2024: There is compelling evidence that Ethiopian forces committed genocidal acts during the Tigray war, a new report has concluded. Issued on Tuesday by the United States-based New Lines Institute, the 120-page draft quotes multiple, widespread and credible independent reports that Ethiopian forces and their allies carried out “acts constituting the crime […]
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Wed 05 June 2024: US President Joe Biden has suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could be extending the war for self-preservation, according to an interview released on Tuesday. During an interview with Time magazine, Biden was asked if he believes that some of Israel’s suggestions that Netanyahu is prolonging the war for his […]
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Tue 04 June 2024: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope temporarily suspended operations, the US space agency announced Tuesday. “NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode May 24 due to an ongoing gyroscope (gyro) issue, suspending science operations. Hubble’s instruments are stable, and the telescope is in good health,” NASA said in a statement. “The telescope automatically […]
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Tue 04 June 2024: Indian stocks have suffered their worst intraday fall since March 2020 and foreign investors sold the most on record, as vote-counting trends in the general election suggested Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alliance was unlikely to win the overwhelming majority predicted by exit polls. With over half the votes counted on Tuesday, Modi’s Bharatiya […]
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Tue 04 June 2024: The Kremlin on Tuesday said it welcomed Türkiye’s interest in the BRICS economic bloc. “We, of course, all welcome the increased interest in BRICS on the part of our neighbors, including such important partners as Türkiye,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in a press briefing in Moscow. Expressing that Türkiye’s […]
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Tue 04 June 2024: Vote counting in India’s general elections began Tuesday morning after the seven-phase mega polls concluded last week with millions casting their votes across the South Asian country. The vote count began at 8 a.m. local time (0230GMT), with the final official results expected by the end of the day, according to the […]
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