Sat 15 Apr 2023: There is a mention of a health rumor involving Russian President Vladimir Putin in the recently released Pentagon documents. The “Top Secret” files suggest that the president is receiving chemotherapy and that Russian National Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev and Russian Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov “devised” a strategy to […]
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Sat 15 Apr 2023: Clashes erupted in the Sudanese capital on Saturday between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Gunfire and bombs were heard near the army headquarters and presidential palace, according to an Anadolu reporter in Khartoum. The rift between the forces came to the surface on Thursday when […]
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Sat 15 Apr 2023: Türkiye on Saturday successfully launched its first indigenous high-resolution Earth observation satellite, called the IMECE, into space. The Turkish-made pioneering satellite was blasted off early on Saturday from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in the US state of California at 0648 GMT. The launch marks the first time that Türkiye will […]
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Fri 14 Apr 2023: UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has written to Russia, Ukraine and Turkiye to raise concerns about the implementation of a deal that allows the safe wartime export of grain from several Ukrainian Black Sea ports, a UN spokesman said on Friday, Reuters reports. The United Nations has said no ships were inspected on Tuesday under the deal – […]
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Fri 14 Apr 2023: Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old air national guardsman identified as the key suspect in the leak of confidential intelligence documents, appears thin in his dark blue air force uniform in images. He appears to be young, barely older than the teenage friends pictured in the internet group where the confidential data were […]
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Fri 14 Apr 2023: Home Affairs Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has revealed that convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester was never registered on any Home Affairs database which captures all legal citizens in the country. This includes the National Population Register (NPR), the asylum seeker and refugee system, and the visa database. The Minister was […]
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Fri 14 Apr 2023: A new malaria vaccine created by researchers at Oxford University has received regulatory approval from Ghana. According to the university, the West African nation is the first in the world to have authorized the use of the R21/Matrix-MTM serum. The Food and Drugs Authority of Ghana, which oversees the country’s pharmaceutical […]
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Fri 14 Apr 2023: As peace negotiations between Saudi envoys and Houthi rebels ramp up, the release and swap of over 900 detainees by the two sides in Yemen’s conflict has started. The inmates will be transported between six locations in Yemen and Saudi Arabia using ICRC flights, according to a statement made on Friday. […]
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Fri 14 Apr 2023: A major Canadian bank was the world’s largest financier of fossil fuels last year, contributing $42.1bn to such companies, a new report by a coalition of environmental groups has found. Released on Thursday, the Banking on Climate Chaos report (PDF) found that the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) had surpassed United States-based JP […]
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Fri 14 Apr 2023: The BBC will cooperate fully with the Indian authorities, the UK-headquartered media organisation said on Thursday in response to reports from India of a new investigation launched by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into alleged foreign exchange violations by the British public broadcaster. A spokesperson for the British taxpayer-funded licence fee-backed media […]
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