TURKISH PRESIDENT ERDOĞAN WILL ATTEND THE G-20 SUMMIT THIS WEEK IN INDIA

Fri 08 September 2023: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will visit India on Sept. 8-10 to attend the summit of Group of 20 leaders in the capital New Delhi, Anadolu Agency reported. Term president India is set to host the two-day summit, which will start on Saturday under the theme “One Earth, One Family, One […]

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TWO MILLION AFGHANS WILL NO LONGER RECEIVE FOOD AID FROM THE WFP AMID DEVASTATING DROUGHT

Thu 07 September 2023: The United Nations’ World Food Programme has announced it will drop another two million people from food assistance in Afghanistan, as the country faces its third consecutive year of a devastating drought that is putting food and water out of reach, said Save the Children. Arshad Malik, Save the Children Country […]

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DEPOSED PRESIDENT ALI BONGO IS ‘FREE’ TO TRAVEL ABROAD, SAYS GABON’S MILITARY

Thu 07 September 2023: Gabon’s deposed president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, has been released from house arrest and is free to leave the country for medical treatment, the military which removed him from power last month has said. Bongo was toppled from power on August 30, shortly after being declared the winner of much-criticised elections that […]

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PUTIN WILL NOT EVEN TAKE PART IN G20 SUMMIT VIA VIDEO CALL: KREMLIN

Thu 07 September 2023: Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, isn’t planning to participate by video call at this weekend’s Group of 20 summit, the Kremlin said on Thursday. Putin says he wants to stay in Moscow and focus on the conflict in Ukraine, thus he will not travel to New Delhi for the G20 summit of major industrialized nations. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will instead handle major matters related to the summit, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. In August, Putin did use video calls to take part in a BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China und South Africa) summit in Johannesburg. He did not […]

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RUSSIAN FLAG CANNOT FLY AT 2024 OLYMPICS: FRENCH PRESIDENT

Thu 07 September 2023: The Russian flag cannot be flown at next summer’s Olympics in Paris, the French president said on Wednesday. “Russia has no place (in the Olympics) at a time when it commits war crimes and deports children,” Emmanuel Macron told French sports daily L’Equipe. Macron expressed full trust in the Olympic committee’s […]

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WHO SEES ‘CONCERNING’ COVID TRENDS BEFORE WINTER AS HOSPITALISATIONS RISE

Thu 07 September 2023: The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of “concerning” COVID-19 trends in advance of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, calling for increased vaccinations and surveillance. While figures are “limited” because many countries have stopped reporting coronavirus data, the United Nations health agency estimated that hundreds of thousands of people globally were currently […]

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INDIA OR BHARAT: WHAT’S BEHIND THE DISPUTE OVER THE COUNTRY’S NAME?

Thu 07 September 2023: A change to the Sanskrit name is backed by PM Narendra Modi’s BJP, which says the word ‘India’ is a symbol of colonial slavery. Controversy has gripped India after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government referred to the country as Bharat on official invitations, leaving many wondering whether the name will be […]

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