A mass funeral following deadly earthquakes is held in the Zindajan district, Herat province, western Afghanistan, on Oct. 9, 2023. (Photo by Zahir Khan/Xinhua) Wed 11 October 2023: A 6.3 magnitude earthquake rocked western Afghanistan just days after a series of catastrophic earthquakes killed over 2,400 people. At about 5am on Wednesday morning, October […]
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Tue 10 October 2023: ‘What is America’s aircraft carrier doing in Israel? It will start to carry out very serious massacres there by striking, destroying Gaza,’ Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a statement during a press conference with the Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer in the capital Ankara on Tuesday. ‘There is currently no […]
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Tue 10 October 2023: After reiterating the US’s support of Israel, the president said the country has a “right” to retaliate to the “vicious attacks” conducted by the militant group. He spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this evening, and says he told him the US response will be “decisive, swift and overwhelming”. “We […]
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Tue 10 October 2023: Russia launched 36 drone attacks overnight on Ukraine, according to Kyiv’s air force, in Moscow’s latest air raid targeting the country. Ukraine’s air force said in a statement on Tuesday that its defence systems had destroyed 27 of the drones. The attacks using Iran-made Shahed drones targeted the Odesa, Mykolaiv and […]
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Tue 10 October 2023: Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday discussed India ties with the king of Jordan amid a huge row over the killing of Khalistani activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. “The Canadian Prime Minister spoke with King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein of Jordan on Sunday and he provided “an update on the situation […]
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Tue 10 October 2023: Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday denied any Iranian involvement in Hamas’s shock weekend attack on Israel despite its strong support for the Palestinian militant group. “The supporters of the Zionist regime (Israel) and some people in the usurping regime have been spreading rumours over the past two or three […]
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Image Credit: NASA Tue 10 October 2023: NASA is gearing up to unveil the sample collected from the Bennu asteroid during the groundbreaking OSIRIS-REx mission on October 11. The results of their analysis of the returned asteroid sample will also be discussed for the first time on the same day. Launched in September 2016, OSIRIS-REx […]
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Tue 10 October 2023: The outbreak of war in the Middle East has raised questions over how it might affect the West’s continued support for Ukraine, particularly that provided by the US. Republicans in Congress have increasingly sought to prevent funding being diverted to help Kyiv resist Russia’s invading forces. With Israel – which has […]
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Tue 10 October 2023: Divisions among EU member states and a lack of convergence from EU institutions were on display on Monday (9 October) over plans to halt aid to Palestine in response to Saturday’s attack on Israel by Hamas. The EU’s disarray reflects longstanding divisions within the bloc over the Israel-Palestinian conflict, even as […]
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Mon 09 October 2023: Russian ruble plunged to a 18-month low against U.S. dollar on Monday, exceeding 102 level. According to data from the Moscow stock exchange, the ruble lost 1.7% to 102.1 per dollar, the lowest since March 2022. Analysts said the fall was led by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war besides the escalating conflict […]
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