Fri 06 October 2023: The Biden administration is expected to announce a new weapons package for Ukraine next week as the Pentagon continues to use up funds discovered due to a multibillion-dollar accounting error, according to US officials. The funds have allowed Washington to send Kyiv military support despite the exclusion of new Ukraine aid […]
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Fri 06 October 2023: The Pope is said to be “furious” over the wave of anti-Christian hate crimes carried out by Israeli settlers, the spokesman of the Council of Heads of Catholic Churches in Jerusalem, Wadie Abu Nasser, has said. Speaking to Israeli Army Radio yesterday, Abu Nasser said that Pope Francis is updated on every incident […]
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Fri 06 October 2023: According to a recent survey, one-third of Americans today prefer not to identify with any religion. In contrast to earlier comparable polls, the number of people who simply identified as Christians has also drastically decreased. Between May 11 and May 15, Associated Press-NORC conducted the survey. The poll of 1,680 adults […]
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Fri 06 October 2023: Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her British counterpart Rishi Sunak have vowed to fight “illegal” migration to Europe, describing the issue as a humanitarian crisis, with shipwrecks of unsafe boats claiming more than 2,000 lives this year. “Every week, thousands of migrants cross the Mediterranean to reach Italy, entering Europe […]
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Fri 06 October 2023: Narges Mohammadi, a jailed Iranian women’s rights advocate, has won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all”, according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the awarding body. Hailing Mohammadi as a “freedom fighter”, […]
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Fri 06 October 2023: The plane crash that killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, according to Vladimir Putin, was caused by hand grenades detonating inside the jet, and the Wagner chief may have been high on drugs. Making his first comments on the cause of the crash, Putin claimed the plane was blown up from inside, saying that […]
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Fri 06 October 2023: Authorities in Tenerife have evacuated about 3,000 people from their homes overnight as a wildfire sparked by high temperatures and strong winds raged in a forest already ravaged by blaze in August. Unseasonal hot weather plus strong winds has reignited a wildfire that originally began on Aug. 15. The blaze has […]
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People help a wounded person after a drone attack on a Syrian military academy in Homs, Syria on October 5, 2023 [Video screen grab] Thu 05 October 2023: More than 100 people have been killed in an attack on a military academy in Syria, a war monitor and an official said, with weaponised drones bombing […]
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Emergency workers search the rubble of a Russian rocket attack that killed at least 49 people in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine [Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP] Thu 05 October 2023: Ukrainian officials say at least 51 people have been killed after a Russian missile hit a supermarket in the Kupiansk district […]
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Thu 05 October 2023: The recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature has been named as Norwegian playwright and author Jon Fosse, on Thursday. According to the Swedish Academy, which presented the award to Fosse, “his innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable,” was recognized. Fosse is renowned for his distinctive style […]
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