Thu 18 April 2024: The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to vote Friday on a Palestinian request for full UN membership, said diplomats, a move that Israel ally, the United States, is expected to block because it would effectively recognise a Palestinian State, Reuters reports. The 15-member Council is due to vote at 3 p.m. (1900 GMT) Friday on […]
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Thu 18 April 2024: Social media sites such as X, formerly Twitter, were swamped with misrepresented visuals after Iran launched an unprecedented wave of drones and missiles toward Israel at the weekend, exacerbating Middle East tensions during an ongoing war that has already seen a flood of misinformation. Many of the falsehoods about the Iranian strikes were amplified by […]
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Thu 18 April 2024: Russian military casualties in the war with Ukraine have topped 50,000, according to research. The BBC, whose Russian unit has been counting deaths since Moscow’s forces invaded the neighbouring state in February 2022, revealed the number on Wednesday, noting that the rate of casualties accelerated in the second year of the […]
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Wed 17 April 2024: Azerbaijan and Russia officially confirmed the beginning of the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from Karabakh on Wednesday. Commenting at a press briefing in Moscow on media reports which said the withdrawal of the Russian peacekeepers started several days ago, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the reports were accurate: “Yes, it really […]
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Wed 17 April 2024: In light of the ongoing severe drought, Zambia’s president said on Tuesday that his country urgently needs 23.5 billion kwacha ($937 million) to effectively tackle immediate life-saving and sustaining humanitarian and recovery needs, Anadolu Agency reported. “Of this amount, 1.3 billion kwacha ($51.2 million) is available, leaving a financing gap of […]
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Wed 17 April 2024: International hackers have launched a dedicated website for releasing information obtained from recent breaches into sensitive Israeli databases, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Tuesday. The site has already posted thousands of documents reportedly acquired by infiltrating systems associated with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, the National Insurance, the Ministry of Justice, and […]
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Wed 17 April 2024: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine has signed a bill into law that improves army mobilization guidelines in an effort to solve the country’s severe soldier shortfall in the war against Russia. The bill will take effect one month from now, on Tuesday, following its publication on the legislative website of Ukraine. […]
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Wed 17 April 2024: A Muslim pupil in the United Kingdom has lost a court challenge against a top London school’s ban on prayer rituals in a case about freedom of religion in schools that has captured national attention. The student, who cannot be named, took legal action against Michaela Community School in northwest London, […]
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Wed 17 April 2024: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been battered by strong thunderstorms. In a matter of hours, the desert city-state of Dubai received more rain than it does for a year and a half, flooding important roads and the airport. The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday witnessed the largest amount of rainfall […]
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Tue 16 April 2024: A health official in Tunisia’s coastal region of Sfax has said that the number of drowned migrants has exceeded the capacity of the region’s hospital mortuary, which can take 35 corpses. There are around 100 awaiting burial at the moment, but even the local cemeteries are starting to fill up. The […]
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