Mon 03 June 2024: Tehran, Iran – Iran’s ex-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other divisive figures – such as moderate Ali Larijani and ultraconservative Saeed Jalili – have signed up to contest new elections after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last month. Ahmadinejad, who was president from 2005 to 2013, registered along with dozens […]
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Sun 02 June 2024: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has made a surprising move by joining TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media platform he sought to ban during his presidency. Trump’s account, @realdonaldtrump, garnered over 450,000 followers shortly after he posted a launch video Saturday night, featuring his appearance at an Ultimate Fighting Championship event in […]
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Sun 02 June 2024: China has successfully landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the moon, a significant milestone in its mission to collect the first rock and soil samples from this lunar hemisphere. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced that the Chang’e-6 spacecraft touched down in the South Pole-Aitken Basin at […]
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Sun 02 June 2024: Russian forces have launched a barrage of missiles and drones across Ukraine that damaged energy infrastructure in five regions, according to Ukrainian officials. Ukraine’s national grid operator Ukrenergo said on Saturday the attacks struck facilities in the eastern Donetsk, southeastern Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions, as well as the Kirovohrad and Ivano-Frankivsk […]
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Sun 02 June 2024: More than 120 bodies of Palestinians were recovered from the rubble two days after Israeli forces left the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Medical sources at Kamal Adwan Hospital told Anadolu that emergency crews and civil defense teams have recovered more than 120 Palestinian bodies from the destroyed roads […]
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Sun 02 June 2024: The governing party must form a coalition government but some opposition parties want the president out of the picture first. South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has lost its majority in the country’s election this week for the first time since the end of apartheid, in a major setback for […]
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Sun 02 June 2024: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led alliance is projected to win an emphatic majority in the general election, TV exit polls say, suggesting the right-wing party would do better than expected by most analysts. Most exit polls on Saturday projected the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) could win a two-thirds […]
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Sat 01 June 2024: Ukraine has begun recruiting prisoners to bolster its infantry ranks against Russia, with over four thousand inmates applying so far. Under a new government deal, prisoners can have their sentences cleared if they serve in the army until the war ends, at which point they would be granted parole. “My mother […]
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Sat 01 June 2024: France has banned Israeli companies from participating in this year’s annual Eurosatory arms and defence industry exhibition in Villepinte near Paris next month, the event’s organisers and the French Defence Ministry said on Friday, Reuters reports. “Following a decision by government authorities, there will not be an Israeli stand at the Eurosatory 2024 salon,” a spokesperson for […]
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Sat 01 June 2024: Gaza’s territory has been shrunk by a buffer zone that winds around its boundary and wide axis torn through its centre. Israel has taken over some 32 percent of Gaza’s area by “systematically demolishing neighbourhoods” to create a buffer zone and a central axis dividing it, according to Al Jazeera’s Sanad […]
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