Wed 03 May 2023: On Wednesday morning in Belgrade, a 14-year-old boy shot his teacher in the head before turning the gun on other students and security personnel, killing eight children and a guard, Anadolu Agency reported., quoting Serbia’s interior ministry. Milan Milosevic, the father of one of the pupils at the Vladislav Ribnikar elementary […]
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Wed 03 May 2023: The UN urged a ‘thorough investigation’ Tuesday into the death of Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan. Adnan, a prominent Islamic Jihad group figure, who became a symbol of Palestinian resistance to Israeli detention policies, died earlier in the day after an 86-day hunger strike against his detention without trial or charge. “Israeli authorities must […]
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Wed 03 May 2023: Leaders of Kosovoand Serbia failed to agree on how to lower tensions in Serb-majority areas in north Kosovo, EUforeign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Tuesday, warning that any further escalation could undermine the EU-backed deal on normalising ties. In March, Pristina and Belgrade verbally agreed to implement a Western-backed plan […]
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Wed 03 May 2023: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre says it recorded more than 550 attacks on human rights defenders in 2022. Taipei, Taiwan – India, Cambodia and the Philippines are among the most dangerous places in the world for human rights and labour activists with protests against corporate abuses often met with state-backed violence, […]
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Tue 02 May 2023: The Israeli military confirms it is attacking Gaza as witnesses say they heard a loud explosion in the blockaded coastal enclave. lsraeli warplanes hit several sites in Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/S7V3ngziwr — TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) May 2, 2023 Al Jazeera’s reporter in Gaza, Hisham Zaqout, said, “There have been multiple Israeli […]
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Tue 02 May 2023: UN chief Antonio Guterres held a second day of talks with world powers Tuesday on how to deal with Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders amid warnings from the Kabul administration that the meeting could be “counter-productive”. The talks in Doha were arranged by Guterres after the Taliban government banned Afghan women from working […]
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Tue 02 May 2023: Kremlin spokesperson Dimitry Peskov says the US government does not have any data on Russian losses in eastern Ukraine and estimates had been “plucked from thin air”. “Pulling out figures out of a hat, Washington does not have the opportunity to give any correct figures, they do not have such data, […]
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Tue 02 May 2023: The White House estimated on Monday that warfare against Ukraine in the Bakhmut region had cost the Russian troops 100,000 lives over the previous five months, Reuters reported. According to U.S. intelligence assessments, the figure comprised more than 20,000 fatalities, with the Wagner group accounting for half of them, White House […]
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Tue 02 May 2023: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called on governments to keep their pledge and act against climate change. “The International Panel on Climate Change tells us that breaching 1.5 degrees, even temporarily, could be disastrous,” he told the Petersberg Climate Dialogue meeting via video link. Guterres warned that the temperatures are set to rise 2.8 […]
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Tue 02 May 2023: Palestinian prisoner and hunger striker Khader Adnan has died in Israeli custody after being on hunger strike for nearly three months. Shortly after Israel’s prison service announced his death, a volley of rockets from the coastal enclave Gaza were fired into southern Israel. Adnan, who was affiliated with the armed group Islamic Jihad, […]
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