Sat 13 May 2023: On Saturday, President Joe Biden stated that talks with Congress over expanding the federal government’s debt limit are moving forward and that more information will be available in the following two days, Reuters reported. “I think they are moving along, hard to tell. We have not reached the crunch point yet,” […]
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Sat 13 May 2023: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on Pope Francis to more clearly condemn Russia, following a meeting with the pontiff in the Vatican. “I’m grateful for his personal attention to the tragedy of millions of Ukrainians,” Zelensky wrote on Twitter. “I spoke about tens of thousands of deported children.” “In addition, I asked […]
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Sat 13 May 2023: According to UNICEF, the UN organization for children, at least 450,000 children in Sudan have been forced to leave their homes because of the continuous war, Anadolu Agency reported. Violence between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) group has been raging in the conflict-torn African nation for weeks. […]
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Sat 13 May 2023: Zimbabwe’s gold-backed digital currency comes a year after the country launched gold coins to stabilise its rapidly devaluing currency. Harare, Zimbabwe – On Monday, Zimbabwe released a gold-backed digital currency for peer-to-peer and peer-to-business transactions as well as to act as a store of value as the country’s currency continues to lose […]
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Sat 13 May 2023: Over the past four days, Russian forces have abandoned their positions badly on the southern flank of Bakhmut operations, Britain’s defence ministry said on Saturday. The withdrawal has seen Ukrainian forces regain at least a kilometer of territory, Britain said in a daily intelligence bulletin. “The area has some tactical significance because it […]
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Sat 13 May 2023: A White House official announced on Friday that the Pentagon would be sending additional troops to the Gulf region in response to Iranian threats of disrupting commercial shipping in the Middle East. John Kirby, the National Security Council Spokesman, condemned actions that pose a threat to shipping in the region and […]
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Sat 13 May 2023: Results coming in from the Karnataka election results have shown the Congress comfortably in the lead, crossing the halfway mark on its own. BJP’s incumbent chief minister B.S. Bommai has conceded. The run-up to the 2023 Karnataka assembly polls was marked by a high-pitched campaign by both the BJP and the […]
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Pope Francis shared the stage on May 12 with Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Fri 12 May 2023: A society’s birth rate is a key indicator of the hope people have in the future. Starting a family in Italy is becoming a “titanic effort” that only the rich can afford, Pope Francis said on Friday, […]
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Russian cargo ship Lady R leaves Simon’s Town harbour. (Photo: Supplied) Fri 12 May 2023: Spokesperson for President Cyril Ramaphosa, Vincent Magwenya, says there is no evidence to suggest that a Russian vessel, which docked in the Western Cape last year, took weapons back to that country. This after the US Ambassador to South […]
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Fri 12 May 2023: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday criticized international media outlets that have recently tried to influence public opinion with articles on Türkiye’s upcoming May 14 elections. “What do all the magazines say on their covers? ‘Erdoğan must go.’ (Those published) in Germany, France and England say so. What is it to you? “How do you put these […]
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