Mon 22 May 2023: Six African leaders propose that Ukraine accept opening peace talks with Russia even as Russian troops remain on its soil, South Africa’s presidency has said, as South African officials prepare to visit both countries to sell the idea. “First is the cessation of hostilities. Second is a framework for lasting peace,” […]
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Mon 22 May 2023: BBC documentary, India: The Modi Question, which was released in January this year, will be screened at the Australian Parliament House in Canberra. Interestingly, the two-part documentary series, which faced plenty of criticism from government sympathisers, will be screened at the same time when Modi is scheduled to visit the country on […]
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Mon 22 May 2023: During a press conference on Monday, Sinan Oğan, who was the presidential candidate of the ATA bloc in the first round of the election on May 14, called on his nearly three million supporters to back incumbent Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the runoff on May 28. Speaking to reporters […]
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Mon 22 May 2023: At least 20 people died in a fire at the Mahdia Secondary School in Guyana, AFP news agency reported on Monday citing a government official. The Guyanese government said in a press statement that the fire broke out in the dormitory building of a secondary school in the south-western border town of Mahdia, 200 miles (320km) […]
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Mon 22 May 2023 Department of Home Affairs officials have followed the due processes required by law to ensure that serial rapist and murderer Thabo Bester applies for an Identity Document (ID). Bester – who escaped from the Mangaung Correctional Centre last year and fled South Africa upon detection but was later rearrested – was […]
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Mon 22 May 2023: Extreme weather has caused the deaths of 2 million people and $4.3 trillion in economic damage over the past half a century, a report by the United Nations finds. According to the new figures published on Monday from the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), 11,778 weather-related disasters have occurred from 1970 […]
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Mon 22 May 2023: In the parliamentary elections held on Sunday, Greece’s ruling New Democracy party won a resounding victory but fell short of securing an outright majority. The vote was influenced by the country’s cost-of-living issue, a wiretapping controversy, and resentment over the deadliest train accident in its history. Partial results from nearly 90% […]
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Mon 22 May 2023: A court in India has summoned the BBC in a defamation complaint involving its documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, local media reported. The British broadcaster was served a summons by the Delhi High Court on Monday for a documentary film that criticized Modi’s handling of the 2002 Gujarat riots, which […]
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Sun 21 May 2023: In response to what officials claim are Russian efforts to destabilize their country, tens of thousands of Moldovans demonstrated in the capital Chisinau in favor of their pro-Western government’s march towards Europe. Initial police estimates indicate that at than 75,000 people attended the march on Sunday in the capital’s center. They […]
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Saudi Arabia’s first female astronaut Rayyanah Barnawi and her colleague Ali Al Qarni will blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday, May 21. Sun 21 May 2023: Two Saudi astronauts will be travelling to the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time on a private mission to carry out a […]
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