CLIMATE CHANGE DRIVING HUMANS TO NIHILISM, WARNS PSYCHOLOGIST

  A woman in front of her earthquake-damaged house in the old city in Marrakesh. [Fadel Senna/AFP] Wed 04 October 2023: Climate change is detrimental in every imaginable way, negatively affecting the global economy, agriculture, industry, sports and everything else people know, love and make use of, Anadolu Agency reports. But one aspect of this environmental […]

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NEWSCLICK EDITOR ARRESTED IN INDIA AFTER RAIDS OVER ALLEGED FOREIGN FUNDING

(L-R): D. Raghunandan, Abhisar Sharma, Prabir Purkayastha, Sohail Hashmi, Urmilesh and Bhasha Singh. Tue 03 October 2023: Police in India have arrested a prominent journalist and founder of a news website under a stringent anti-terror law over allegations of receiving foreign money for pro-China propaganda. NewsClick’s founder and editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha was arrested on Tuesday […]

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UN FOOD AGENCY NEEDS OVER $526 MILLION TO MEET SOUTH SUDAN’S HUNGER EMERGENCY

Tue 03 October 2023: The UN World Food Program (WFP) said, on Tuesday, that it needs over $526 million for hunger response in South Sudan as the “urgency is looming”, Anadolu Agency reports. This year, the WFP received “less than half” of the funding that it needed, and the next year is “equally concerning”, the food agency’s […]

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NIGER DECLARES THREE DAYS OF NATIONAL MOURNING AFTER DOZENS OF SOLDIERS KILLED IN ATTACK NEAR MALI

Tue 03 October 2023: An ambush in western Niger claimed the lives of at least 29 soldiers, according to the nation’s defense ministry. According to a televised announcement made by the ministry on Monday night, the attack involved “improvised explosive devices and kamikaze vehicles by more than a hundred terrorists” and a three-day period of […]

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INDIA TELLS CANADA TO WITHDRAW DOZENS OF ITS DIPLOMATS FROM THE COUNTRY OVER NIJJAR MURDER RIFT: REPORT

Tue 03 October 2023: India has demanded that Canada withdraw approximately 40 diplomats from the country, Financial Times reported on Monday. The reported move has unfolded amid tensions between the two nations after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau alleged publicly on Sept. 18 that India was involved in the assassination of Sikh-Canadian leader Hardeep Singh […]

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RUS­SIA AC­CUS­ES UKRAINE OF SHELLING BRYAN­SK RE­GION WITH CLUS­TER MU­NI­TIONS

  A boy holds unexploded cluster bombs after jet shelling by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in the al-Meyasar district of Aleppo, Feb. 21, 2013.(Photo Reuters) Tue 03 October 2023: The governor of Russia’s Bryansk region has said Ukraine fired cluster munitions at a Russian village near the Ukrainian border on Tuesday, damaging […]

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SAUDI-IRAN ASIAN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GAME CANCELLED IN ROW OVER SOLEIMANI BUST

Mon 02 October 2023: A football match between Saudi and Iranian teams in the Asian Champions League has been called off due to the presence of a statue of former Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani at the entrance of the field. A clash scheduled for Monday between Saudi’s Al Ittihad and Iran’s Sepahan was postponed after the Saudi team […]

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AN EXPLOSION IN OXFORDSHIRE LIGHTS UP THE SKY WITH A HUGE FIREBALL

Mon 02 October 2023: A lightning strike sparked a massive explosion at an Oxfordshire food waste recycling factory. After the explosion at the Severn Trent Green Power Plant in Cassington, north of Oxford, witnesses reported seeing a massive fireball light up the night sky. Police say they believe lightening has struck gas containers at a […]

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