Wed 02 August 2023: Tuesday marked the formal start of Meta, the parent company of the social media sites Facebook and Instagram, ceasing to provide news in Canada. The move was expected in response to the passing of the Online News Act, or Bill C-18, by the Canadian government in June. The bill aims to support news […]
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Wed 02 August 2023: Saudi Arabia has approved a $1.2 billion grant to Yemen’s internationally-recognised government, led by the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), as part of efforts to prop up the war-torn country’s flagging economy, AFP reported citing two officials. According to the sources, Yemen’s finance minister and central bank governor as well as the Saudi ambassador […]
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Wed 02 August 2023: Putin has told Turkey’s Erdogan that Moscow is ready to return to the Black Sea grain deal as soon as the West meets its obligations to Russia’s grain exports, the Kremlin said. In a phone call with Erdogan, Putin also listed its reasons for exiting the deal last month. According to […]
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Wed 02 August 2023: Secretary of State Antony Blinken and African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat agreed Tuesday that there is “no acceptable military to solution” to the crisis in Niger. Blinken spoke with Mahamat by telephone to discuss “the concerning developments in Niger,” and both “reiterated the shared U.S.-AU priorities of seeing […]
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Wed 02 August 2023: Tehran, Iran – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has launched military exercises to show its readiness to defend three disputed islands that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) claims as its own. The elite force ran the unannounced drills early on Wednesday, mainly off the coast of Abu Musa which along with […]
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Wed 02 August 2023: According to The Toronto Star, individuals from various religious backgrounds have joined forces to protest the gender ideology curriculum they find inappropriate in Canadian schools. This concern has become a prominent topic of discussion within school boards and beyond, mirroring the situation in the United States. Parents, some wearing hijabs and […]
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Tue 01 August 2023: The UN World Food Program (WFP) has decided to suspend its malnutrition prevention program in Yemen in August, citing “critical funding shortfalls” as a major reason, Anadolu Agency reports. In its latest report on the situation in Yemen, the UN food agency stated that critical funding shortfalls, combined with ongoing supply disruptions, force […]
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Tue 01 August 2023: An armed attack at Sweden’s honorary consulate in the western province of Izmir left one Turkish employee critically injured. According to the local governor’s office, the attack was carried out by a “mentally disabled” individual in the Konak neighborhood of Izmir around 9:45 a.m. GMT on Tuesday. The attack took place […]
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Tue 01 August 2023: The Russian military said its anti-aircraft units had thwarted a Ukrainian “terrorist attack” early on Tuesday and downed drones targeting Moscow, but one drone, sent out of control by its units, struck the same high-rise tower hit earlier in the week. “On the night of August 1st, an attempted terrorist attack […]
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Tue 01 August 2023: Days after President Mohamed Bazoum was deposed by members of his presidential guard, at least four European nations on Tuesday said that preparations to remove their citizens from Niger were under way. The German foreign ministry said in a statement that the French had “offered, within the limits of available capacity, […]
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