Mon 16 October 2023: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that if Western countries like the US want to go to war with Russia, it would be “completely different” from the special military operation in Ukraine. Putin made assessments about the Russia-Ukraine war and Russia-China relations in an interview with Russian state broadcaster Rossiya. Speaking […]
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Mon 16 October 2023: Joe Biden has warned Israel not to occupy Gaza in what may be his strongest public effort to advocate restraint. He told CBS’ 60 Minutes last night: “I think it’d be a big mistake. I think it’d be a big mistake. Look, what happened in Gaza, in my view, is Hamas […]
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian meets with Palestinian group Hamas’s top leader Ismail Haniyeh in Doha on Saturday [West Asia News Agency/Handout via Reuters] Sun 15 October 2023: Tehran, Iran – Iran has warned Israel of regional escalation if the Israeli military enters Gaza for a ground invasion as the war with Hamas enters its […]
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Sun 15 October 2023: The South African National Defence Force has recalled eight UN peacekeepers deployed to the Democratic Republic of Congo following allegations of sexual misconduct against them, it said on Sunday. The soldiers were part of the UN peace-keeping mission in eastern DRC, known as MONUSCO, and sources first told Reuters about the […]
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Sun 15 October 2023: The western province of Herat in Afghanistan has been hit with a magnitude 6.3 earthquake – its third since powerful quakes on October 8 killed more than 2,000 people. The United States Geological Survey said the quake hit just after 8am (03:30 GMT) on Sunday, with the epicentre 33km (21 miles) northwest […]
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Sun 15 October 2023: Countries that exclude athletes from competing for political rea-sons risk harming their plans to host an Olympic Games, the IOC said on Sunday. The “growing politicization of sport” was flagged as a problem by International Olympic Committee member Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, the former president of Croatia, in an update to global sports […]
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The Royal Moroccan Air Force (RMAF) and aircraft assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 3 fly over the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) in the Atlantic Ocean on March 3, 2021. US Navy Photo Sun 15 October 2023: The Pentagon has dispatched a second carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean […]
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Sun 15 October 2023: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has criticised Israel’s operation in Gaza, describing the action as “beyond the scope of self-defence” and urging Netanyahu’s government to “cease its collective punishment of” Palestinians in the besieged enclave. Wang made the comments during a call with his Saudi Arabian counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan […]
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Sat 14 October 2023: Russian President Vladimir Putin is heading to China next week to meet “dear friend” Xi Jinping in order to forge even closer ties with the country which is viewed as a key strategic relationship in global politics. Experts are increasingly of the view that Moscow is fast becoming a junior partner […]
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Sat 14 October 2023: Australia rejected a referendum on Saturday, October 14, to include Indigenous people in the country’s constitution, marking a major defeat in its efforts to achieve reconciliation with the Indigenous population. Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles said, “Australians have not voted for a change to the constitution,” and added, “We very much […]
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