Fri 30 June 2023: The Rwandan government expressed concern, Thursday, over a ruling by the UK Court of Appeal which said that Rwanda is not a safe country for asylum seekers and refugees, Anadolu Agency reports. In April last year, the UK signed a controversial partnership deal with Rwanda that would see asylum seekers attempting to enter […]
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Fri 30 June 2023: Battling to make ends meet, families are forced to stretch every cent amid constant interest rate hikes and skyrocketing food prices, while many consumers are deep in debt. Financial stress has become a reality for many households in South Africa. The recently published annual Sanlam Benchmark report found 63% of South […]
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Fri 30 June 2023: There are now more than 100,000 homeless individuals living in shelters in New York City (NYC), breaking previous records. This has raised questions about how local governments in the US handle this population, US media reported. According to a New York Times (NYT) report, local officials claimed on Wednesday that for […]
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Fri 30 June 2023: The United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution that will establish an independent body to determine what happened to more than 130,000 people missing as a result of the conflict in Syria. The resolution, an important response to appeals by their families and loved ones, was adopted on Thursday by the 193-member […]
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Fri 30 June 2023: Google has announced plans to remove Canadian news articles from its search engine and other products in Canada when a law requiring major online platforms to pay news publishers takes effect in the country. In a statement on Thursday, Google said Canada’s Bill C-18 – the so-called Online News Act, which was passed […]
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Salwan Momika holds up a Quran before setting some pages on fire in a protest outside a mosque in Stockholm on June 28, 2023, during the Eid al-Adha holiday. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP) Fri 30 June 2023: Many Arab countries have condemned the burning of a copy of Muslim Holy Book, the Quran, in front of […]
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Thu 29 June 2023: Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has been told that his mercenary forces would no longer fight in Ukraine after he refused to sign contracts to bring them under the Russian defence ministry, a senior lawmaker said. Colonel-General Andrei Kartapolov, who chairs the lower house of parliament’s defence committee, said the trigger for Saturday’s mutiny was Prigozhin’s […]
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Thu 29 June 2023: The controversial government plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is illegal, according to a British court, because the African nation cannot be regarded as a secure third country. Three Court of Appeal justices declared on Thursday that “removal of asylum seekers to Rwanda” would be “unlawful,” which is a huge […]
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Thu 29 June 2023: The unrest in France continued for a second night as thousands of security personnel were sent in to put an end to demonstrations against the police shooting of a 17-year-old. French President Emmanuel Macron called the killing “inexcusable” and appealed for peace as justice took its course. On Tuesday and Wednesday […]
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President Putin (M) with General Sergei Suroviki (R). Thu 29 June 2023: General Sergei Surovikin, the deputy commander of Russia’s military operations in Ukraine, has reportedly been detained by Russian authorities amid a purge of military officers following the brief uprising by Wagner mercenary group, according to sources cited by the Moscow Times newspaper and […]
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