Sun 09 July 2023: Teenage girls are being sexually assaulted and raped by armed combatants in Sudan in alarming numbers, with many survivors aged between 12 and 17 years old, Save the Children warned in a press release today. The children make up some of the cases of sexual and gender-based violence as a result of the escalating conflict, with incidents of rape, […]
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Sun 09 July 2023: A gang of armed men set fire to six trucks in KwaZulu-Natal over the weekend, according to police. According to Brigadier Jay Naicker, a gang of armed men forced six truck drivers to stop their vehicles on Van Reenen’s Pass on Saturday night. KZN police stated on Sunday that the route […]
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Sun 09 July 2023: Authorities in Syria and Russian military commanders took swift measures against local Wagner operatives to prevent an uprising in Russia from spreading to the Middle Eastern nation, six sources familiar with the matter have told Reuters, after mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin ordered his men to march on Moscow last month. The crackdown included ordering mercenary […]
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy with the freed Ukrainian commanders returning from Turkey. Photograph: Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Twitter Sat 08 July 2023: Turkey has violated agreements by releasing detained commanders of a unit that for weeks defended a steelworks in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. Peskov, quoted by RIA news agency, said under […]
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Sat 08 July 2023: The Syrian pound has recorded a historic collapse against the US dollar, as its exchange rate reached 10,000 Syrian pounds for $1. This is the lowest level ever reached by the value of the Syrian pound. Economic website Syrian Pound Today reported that the exchange rate in Damascus reached 9,750 pounds per dollar. […]
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Sat 08 July 2023: Scotland announced plans on Friday to decriminalise the possession of all drugs for personal use, with the goal of addressing the worrying drug fatality rate, which is now the highest in Europe. According to Reuters, the Scottish devolved government stressed that these measures should be imposed by the British government in […]
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Sat 08 July 2023: Caribbean leaders criticized economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. on Venezuela, according to media reports Friday. The criticism emerged in reports about the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community Conference in Trinidad and Tobago on July 3 – 5. Dominican Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerritt criticized the sanctions […]
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Sat 08 July 2023: A refugee from war-torn Syria has made history after he was sworn in as mayor of a German town. Ryyan Alshebl took the oath as mayor of Ostelsheim, a town 30km (18.6 miles) from the city of Stuttgart, in a solemn municipal council meeting on Friday evening. The 29-year-old fled the […]
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, at the end of a joint news conference following their meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, early on July 8, 2023. Sat 08 July 2023: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also called for a return to peace talks saying, ‘a fair peace creates […]
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Sat 08 July 2023: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has announced his resignation, after almost 13 years in government. The differences among the four coalition parties on migration policy were irreconcilable, he said in The Hague on Friday evening. “It is no secret that the coalition partners have very different views on migration policy,” Rutte […]
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