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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Mon 28 August 2023: President Emmanuel Macron announced in a speech to diplomats on Monday that France’s ambassador to Niger will remain in the nation despite demands from leaders of a recent coup. On Friday, Niger’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that French ambassador Itte had 48 hours to leave, saying he had refused to […]
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Mon 28 August 2023: Climate-induced water insecurity poses one of the biggest threats to humanity and will lead to more hunger, diseases, and displacement, according to a report by a UK-based charity on Thursday. In its report titled Water Dilemmas, Oxfam presented a range of climate scenarios with expected changes in temperature and precipitation by […]
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Mon 28 August 2023: Poland and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have demanded that Belarus expel the Russian Wagner mercenary group from its territory, Polish media reported on Monday. Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski said at a joint press conference with the interior ministers of the Baltic states that they all demand […]
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Mon 28 August 2023: The armed group ISIL (ISIS) has almost doubled its territory in Mali in less than a year, United Nations experts have said in a new report. The stalled implementation of a peace deal and sustained attacks on communities have offered ISIL and an al-Qaeda affiliate also operating in the region a […]
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Mon 28 August 2023: France plans to ban the abaya, a long loose-fitting overgarment worn by some Muslim women, on school grounds, the country’s education minister said on Sunday. Gabriel Attal told broadcaster TF1 that the government intends to convey “clear rules” on the matter to school officials across the country. Attal also said he […]
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Mon 28 August 2023: In the strongest challenge to Syrian President Bashar Al Assad’s reign in years, young protesters on Sunday welded shut the provincial headquarters of the ruling Baath party in the largely Druze city of Suweida in southwest Syria, as per opposition sources. According to sources, the government in Damascus detained a public […]
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Sun 27 August 2023: Under “tough” plans announced by the prime minister late Saturday, the UK’s “most depraved” killers will face life behind bars with no chance of being released. “I have shared the public’s horror at the cruelty of crimes we have seen recently. People rightly expect that in the most serious cases, there […]
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Sun 27 August 2023: At least one person died and dozens more were injured in two successive explosions at a liquid gas fueling station near the Romanian capital Bucharest. Fifty-seven people were injured, some of them seriously, in the blasts on Saturday evening in the village of Crevedia, 20 kilometres north-west of Bucharest, the Romanian […]
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Sun 27 August 2023: Trump’s campaign says he has raised $7.1 million since Thursday when he was booked at the Fulton County Jail in Georgia on charges that he illegally schemed to overturn the 2020 election in the state and became the first former president in U.S. history to ever have a mug shot taken. Spokesman Steven […]
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