Wed 19 Apr 2023: Fighting rages in Sudan hours after an internationally brokered truce was supposed to have come into effect at 6pm (16:00 GMT) on Tuesday. Forces loyal to duelling generals battled for key locations in the capital, Khartoum, and accused each other of violating the ceasefire. Loud gunfire reverberated on Wednesday morning in […]
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Wed 19 Apr 2023: The centre and the Gujarat government are likely to challenge an order by the Supreme Court seeking files on the remission of convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case. The government, citing “privilege”, has indicated it does not want to produce the documents connected with the remission of sentence of 11 […]
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Wed 19 Apr 2023: Moscow has opened a new criminal case against Russia’s top opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who is already serving a nine-year prison sentence, his spokeswoman said on Tuesday. “A new criminal case was opened against Alexei Navalny while he’s in prison as a result of a ‘provocation’,” Kira Yarmysh said in English […]
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Tue 18 Apr 2023: The violence that broke out in Sudan on Saturday has already killed 270 people and injured 2,600, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). “I condemn all loss of life and we stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in #Sudan,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director general, in […]
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Tue 18 Apr 2023: The meeting between Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is the biggest move yet toward easing Syria’s ten-year isolation from the rest of the region. According to Syrian official media, Prince Faisal arrived in Damascus on Tuesday, a week after his Syrian counterpart […]
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Tue 18 Apr 2023: Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh has arrived in Saudi Arabia for his first visit to the kingdom in years, Anadolu Agency reported. Haniyeh, who touched down in the kingdom late Monday, is accompanied by a high-profile delegation that includes former political chief Khaled Meshal, a Hamas source told Anadolu. The Hamas […]
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Tue 18 Apr 2023: United States forces have killed a senior leader of the ISIL (ISIS) group in Syria in a helicopter operation, the US army said. US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement that Abd-al-Hadi Mahmud al-Haji Ali was the primary target of a “unilateral helicopter raid” carried out early on Monday morning. […]
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Tue 18 Apr 2023: WhatsApp’s head, Will Cathcart, has penned an open letter against the controversial Online Safety Bill. In the letter, Mr Cathcart has addressed the risks that the Online Safety Bill poses to everyone’s privacy and safety. In the letter, he urged the government to protect privacy rights and it highlighted the importance of […]
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Tue 18 Apr 2023: Tunisian security forces late Monday arrested Ennahda Party leader Rached Ghannouchi and took him in for interrogation at a National Guard building in the capital Tunis. In a statement on Facebook, senior Ennahda Party official and former Foreign Minister Rafik Abdessalem said that security forces raided Ghannouchi’s home and took him […]
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Tue 18 Apr 2023: Air pollution impacts every stage of human life from foetal development and the cognitive abilities of teenagers to adult mental health, according to a report that synthesises the findings of more than 35,000 studies from around the world. The Environmental Research Group at Imperial College London published the review on Monday of a […]
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