Wed 30 August 2023: Experts say impasse over contentious Canadian law should make media outlets rethink reliance on social media platforms. As fires raged in Canada’s vast Northwest Territories earlier this month, officials rushed to evacuate tens of thousands of people before the flames could reach the capital of Yellowknife. A citywide evacuation deadline loomed and ensuring […]
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Wed 30 August 2023: A number of senior military soldiers have emerged on Gabonese television, claiming to have taken power because the weekend polls were not credible. In a Wednesday broadcast, the officers stated that they had cancelled the elections, disbanded all state institutions, and closed the country’s borders. Military in Gabon claims power, say […]
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Wed 29 August 2023: Hundreds of thousands of people are being forcibly engaged by organised criminal gangs into online criminality in Southeast Asia – from romance-investment scams and crypto fraud to illegal gambling – a report issued today by the UN Human Rights Office shows. Victims face a range of serious violations and abuses, including threats to […]
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Tue 29 August 2023: Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian mercenary Wagner’s chief, has been buried privately at a funeral near St Petersburg, according to his press service. A “farewell ceremony” for Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in a plane crash last week, took place behind closed doors, his spokespeople said on Tuesday in a statement on […]
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Tue 29 August 2023: China on Monday released the 2023 edition of its “standard map”, staking a claim over Arunachal Pradesh, Aksai Chin region, Taiwan and the disputed South China Sea, news agency PTI reported. China’s official map, referred to as the 2023 edition, was introduced via the Ministry of Natural Resources’ standard map service […]
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Tue 29 August 2023: On Tuesday, the Kremlin declared that it is “not foreseen” that Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the funeral of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin. “The president’s presence is not foreseen. We don’t have information specifically about the funeral. The decision on this matter is made by relatives and friends, here we […]
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Cristiano Ronaldo entering the pitch during his unveiling ceremony at the Mrsool Park Stadium in the Saudi capital Riyadh. (FILE PHOTO). Tue 29 August 2023: For Liverpool supporters like me, Jordan Henderson was one of football’s good guys. He was the club captain who fundraised for the UK’s National Health Service during the COVID-19 pandemic and vocally […]
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Tue 29 August 2023: Britain’s Home Office says asylum seekers arriving undocumented to the United Kingdom could be monitored with electronic and GPS tags, according to a report by The Times newspaper. Under the Illegal Migration Act, approved by the House of Commons in April, anyone who arrives in the country on small boats will be prevented […]
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Tue 29 August 2023: The Islamabad High Court has suspended former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s prison sentence for a corruption conviction. A two-judge bench of the IHC overturned a lower-court decision imprisoning him for three years and has ordered his immediate release. However, a special court recently established to hear cases under the Official Secrets Act has […]
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Mon 28 August 2023: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will skip the Group of 20 (G20) summit in India next month and will send his foreign minister instead, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s office has said. Modi’s office said he spoke to Putin by telephone, “expressing an understanding” for his decision not to attend the summit. […]
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