Fri 04 August 2023: Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has written a letter to his country’s Senate, asking its members to back a regional military intervention in neighbouring Niger, where a coup toppled the democratically elected government of Mohamed Bazoum last week. Local daily The Cable reported on Friday that Tinubu requested for “military buildup and […]
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Protesters hold a demonstration in Athens following the deadly migrant shipwreck in international waters south-west of Greece. Fri 04 August 2023: Human rights groups, on Thursday, underlined the need for an “independent and impartial investigation” into a migrant shipwreck off the coast of Greece in June that left more than 80 irregular migrants dead […]
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Fri 04 August 2023: Disclaimer: A number of claims and counterclaims are being made on the Ukraine-Russia conflict on the ground and online. While Independent Press takes utmost care to accurately report this developing news story, we cannot independently verify the authenticity of all statements, photos and videos. Ukraine has accused Russia of preparing to […]
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Fri 04 August 2023: A Romanian court Friday lifted a house arrest order on controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother who will now be placed under judicial control as they await trial on human trafficking charges. The court has placed Tate, a social media personality known for expressing controversial views, under judicial control, a less […]
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Fri 04 August 2023: Mohamed Bazoum, the deposed president of Niger, has appealed to the international community to help restore his administration and warned that failure to do so will have “devastating” consequences for the world. Bazoum, who was overthrown by the military last week, wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Post in which […]
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Fri 04 August 2023: Chinese authorities have relocated over 1.2 million residents as heavy rains lashed the country’s northern Hebei province, state media reported. Typhoon Doksuri deluged the region designated for flood storage and detention with torrential rain since last weekend, causing some 857,200 people to relocate. The province deployed more than 4,700 rescue teams […]
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Thu 03 August 2023: Internet ads have popped up in Kazakhstan offering an immediate payment of more than $5,000 to join the Russian army, the Reuters news agency reports. The former Soviet republic has traditionally been one of Russia’s closest allies; however, Astana has not supported Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and has called for peace. […]
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Thu 03 August 2023: The ISIL (ISIS) group has confirmed the death of its leader, Abu Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi, and named Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi as his replacement. The group said on Thursday that its leader had been killed in “direct clashes” in rebel-held northwestern Syria with the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group. The announcement was […]
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Thu 03 August 2023: Seven Danish opposition parties, on Thursday, voiced objection to the government’s efforts to make it illegal to burn copies of the Quran, arguing that legislation would be an unacceptable restriction on freedom of expression, Reuters reports. Outrage in the Muslim world over desecration of the Quran in front of embassies of Muslim countries […]
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Thu 03 August 2023: Two-thirds of UK citizens (66%) have disapproved of the Conservative Party’s work in managing the country’s topical issues, while only 14% of respondents have supported the party’s policies, a YouGov weekly tracker showed on Wednesday. The survey showed that fewer than a half (44%) of the Conservative Party’s 2019 voters considered them to […]
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