Sun 01 October 2023: At least 13 people died and another four were injured after a fire engulfed a nightclub in South-West Spain on early Sunday morning. The fire happened in the Teatre nightclub in the outskirts of the city of Murcia. The Coordination Center for Health Alerts and Emergencies has confirmed the 13 deaths. […]
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Sun 01 October 2023: The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), listed as a terror group by Turkey and its Western allies, claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Sunday that injured two people, Agence France-Presse reported. Two attackers detonated a bomb in front of Turkish government buildings in Ankara on Sunday, […]
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Sun 01 October 2023: A United Nations mission arrived Sunday in Nagorno-Karabakh, the first in three decades, Azerbaijan said after almost the entire ethnic-Armenian population fled since Azerbaijan recaptured the breakaway enclave. An Azerbaijani presidency spokesman told AFP that a “UN mission arrived in Karabakh on Sunday morning” — mainly to assess humanitarian needs, the first time in […]
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Sun 01 October 2023: The website of the British royal family was temporarily disabled by a cyberattack on Sunday, dpa has learned from Buckingham Palace sources. No access to the website, its systems, or its content was gained. Upon visiting the URL, royal. uk, the page displayed an error message, ”Gateway time-out Error code 504,” The […]
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Sun 01 October 2023: The current parliament will have presided over the biggest set of tax rises since at least the Second World War, experts have said. The overall level of taxation in the United Kingdom is projected to rise more under the current parliament than under any other since records began in 1948, the UK’s Institute […]
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One of the terrorists neutralized by Turkish Police during the attempted terror attack in Ankara. Sun 01 October 2023: Two police officers have been injured in a suicide bombing attack in front of the Interior Ministry in the Turkish capital, Ankara, according to the country’s interior minister. Their wounds are not life-threatening. Ali Yerlikaya […]
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Sun 01 October 2023: Results from Slovakia’s election on Sunday showed that the populist SMER-SSD party, led by former prime minister Robert Fico, had won. Fico is the leader of a populist party that has criticized the EU and NATO and promised to halt providing Ukraine with military assistance. The Smer-SD party scored 23.3%, beating […]
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Sun 01 October 2023: State Department says Beijing spending billions to spread disinformation and shape opinion in favour of China and the communist party. China is spending billions of dollars a year to shape perceptions of China through influence, censorship and disinformation in a large-scale campaign that could threaten global freedoms, the United States has […]
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Sat 30 September 2023: A temporary funding package was approved by lawmakers in the US House of Representatives on Saturday, taking a significant step toward preventing a government shutdown only hours before the current spending period expires. The House voted 335-91 to fund the government for another 45 days, with more Democrats than Republicans supporting it. The measure would keep the government funded at current spending levels for 45 days and it includes $16 billion in disaster relief — matching the figure the White House included in […]
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PPM/PNC coalition candidate Dr. Mohamed Muizzu and his wife Sajidha Mohamed– Photo: Fayaz Moosa I Mihaaru Sat 30 September 2023: Maldives has elected a new president with the opposition candidate Mohamed Muizzu in the lead with 54% of votes against the incumbent President Mohamed Solih in the second and final run-off for the presidential […]
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