Tue 27 June 2023: Minister in the Presidency responsible for Electricity Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa and German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck have signed a joint declaration of intent to establish the South African German Hydrogen Task Force. The green hydrogen economy has been billed as a new frontier for clean energy as it emits low carbon […]
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Tue 27 June 2023: An impact assessment of the UK government’s Illegal Immigration Bill has found that the cost of sending one person to Rwanda could be almost £170,000 ($216,479). Estimates have said that having one person in the asylum system costs £106,000 ($134,990), meaning it would cost around £64,000 ($81,503) more to fly someone […]
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Tue 27 June 2023: More than 6,500 people have been arrested following the 2020 dismantling of EncroChat, an encrypted communications tool used by organised crime, Europol said on Tuesday. Close to 200 of the arrests were of “high-value targets”, said the organisation that assists EU members in international investigations, adding that nearly 900 million euros […]
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Tue 27 June 2023: Prominent ministers from India’s ruling party have derided comments by former US President Barack Obama that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government should protect the rights of minority Muslims, accusing him of being hypocritical. During Modi’s state visit to the United States last week, Obama told CNN the issue of the “protection of the […]
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Tue 27 June 2023: 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. ______________________________________________________________ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has paid a […]
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Mon 26 June 2023: Russian president Vladimir Putin on Friday evening said Wagner chief Yeveniy Prigozhin’s uprising was “doomed to fail” and that the revolt left the country “united.” Addressing the nation in a televised speech on Monday evening for the first time since Prigozhin halted his march on Moscow, Putin said that “the armed rebellion would have been […]
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Mon 26 June 2023: Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, has moved to reassure allies in Africa that thousands of Wagner group fighters deployed to the continent will not be withdrawn after the mutiny led by their commander, Yevgeny Prigozhin, over the weekend. In an interview with Russia Today, Lavrov pledged that “instructors” and “private […]
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Mon 26 June 2023: A number of claims and counterclaims are being made on the Sudan 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. Sudan’s army confirmed, on Monday, that the rival […]
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Mon 26 June 2023: Israel’s nationalist-religious government approved the construction of 5,700 additional illegal housing units for Jewish settlers in the Occupied West Bank on Monday, despite US pressure to halt settlement expansion that Washington sees as an obstacle to peace with Palestinians, Reuters reports. The plans for approval of the housing units in various areas of the West Bank were […]
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Mon 26 June 2023: The US administration called on Sunday for Israel to investigate the recent settler “riots and terror” in Palestinian villages and prosecute the perpetrators, Israel’s Army Radio has reported. The US Advisor on National Security Affairs, Jake Sullivan, is said to have spoken on the telephone with his Israeli counterpart Tzachi Hanegbi and discussed […]
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