Sat 16 September 2023: They arrived in rapid succession, a flotilla of rickety boats, carrying desperate migrants from the Tunisian coast across the Mediterranean Sea. Within three days, their numbers — nearly 7,000 by late Wednesday — had topped the total population of their destination, the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa. The island – whose […]
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Fri 15 September 2023: Under Niger’s new military administration, France’s ambassador has effectively been “taken hostage,” said President Emmanuel Macron, reported French media on Friday evening. “In Niger, as I speak to you, we have an ambassador and diplomatic members who are literally taken hostage at the French Embassy,” Emmanuel Macron said during a visit […]
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Fri 15 September 2023: Journalists urge one-day boycott of Meta platforms against company’s decision to block news in Canada over contentious law. Montreal, Canada – Journalist and public relations federations in the Canadian province of Quebec are calling on the public to join a one-day boycott of Meta-owned social media platforms over the company’s ban on news-sharing in […]
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Fri 15 September 2023: Several weeks after the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Russian paramilitary Wagner group, the UK has formally designated the group as a terrorist organization. The ruling, which makes it unlawful to support or be a member of Wagner, was issued on Friday. Wagner will now be added to […]
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Fri 15 September 2023: Russian State Duma and Federation Council members proposed blocking WhatsApp if it launches Russian language channels, according to a US think-tank who says the bid is “likely part of the Kremlin’s broader initiative to establish central control over the Russian information space”. On Wednesday, Meta announced it would launch a WhatsApp […]
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Fri 15 September 2023: There is no solid evidence to establish an alien origin for unexplained anomalous phenomenon (UAP), also known as UFOs, according to a NASA assessment issued on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reported. The paper, written by a team of independent researchers, emphasized difficulties in explaining unusual occurrences and cited a lack of crucial […]
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Fri 15 September 2023: Many of the casualties from the devastating floods in Libya this week could have been avoided if the divided country had a functional weather service able to issue warnings, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Speaking to reporters in Geneva on Thursday, WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said Libya’s main challenge in managing […]
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Hundreds of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers have taken long and perilous paths through the Americas in hopes of reaching the US border to apply for protection Fri 15 September 2023: UN agency records at least 686 deaths, disappearances in 2022 during record-breaking year for fatalities in Americas. The United States-Mexico border is the world’s […]
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Thu 14 September 2023: The INDIA alliance will boycott 14 news anchors for their “communal coverage” and deflection from issues of public interest. According to local media, that representatives of the INDIA alliance will not appear on the shows of these anchors: Aman Chopra, Amish Devgan and Anand Narasimhan of News18, Aditi Tyagi of Bharat Express, […]
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Thu 14 September 2023: On Thursday, Nigeria had a statewide power outage due to technical issues in the country’s electrical grid, the West African nation’s electricity distribution companies reported. Multiple grid failures have occurred in recent years, and the most recent one occurred on Thursday, affecting all 36 of Nigeria’s states as well as the […]
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