Tue 21 March 2023: Multiple Kalibr cruise missiles were reportedly destroyed in the explosion, according to a statement from the Ukrainian military posted on its website. The statement claimed that the attack serves to further “demilitarise Russia and prepare the Crimean peninsula for de-occupation,” though it did not specifically mention whether Ukraine was behind the […]
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Tue 21 March 2023: According to a report released by the government and United Nations agencies, Somalia’s ongoing record drought may have killed up to 43,000 people last year, with children under the age of five accounting for half of them. In a crisis that experts warn is more severe than the nation’s most recent […]
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Aspergillus fumigatus growing on a petri dish. Photo: Jan-Peter Kasper, University of Jena. (FILE) Tue 21 March 2023: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is monitoring the fungus, has warned that a mysterious and deadly infection known as Candida auris is rapidly spreading across the USA. The development comes on the […]
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Mon 20 March 2023: Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that cost of the damage caused by last month’s devastating earthquake has hit USD 104 billion. He spoke via a video link as donors at a conference in Brussels vowed funds to help Turkey and Syria. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen […]
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Mon 20 March 2023: Britain on Monday said far-right Danish politician Rasmus Paludan will be denied entry to the UK to carry out a provocative act of burning a copy of the Muslim holy book. Responding to a question by Wakefield Labour MP Simon Lightwood, Home Office Minister for Security Tom Tugendhat said Paludan had […]
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Mon 20 March 2023: Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin told Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu in a letter published on Monday that the Ukrainian army was planning an offensive aimed at cutting off his Wagner forces from the main body of Russian troops in eastern Ukraine. In the letter published by his press service, Prigozhin said the offensive was planned […]
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University of Helsinki is Finland‘s oldest university, founded in 1640. It is located in the heart of the capital, and with student housing all around the city. Mon 20 March 2023: Finland has been named the happiest country in the world in the annual World Happiness Report. This is the sixth consecutive year that they […]
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Mon 20 March 2023: Because of concerns that the devices are vulnerable to Western intelligence agencies, Russia’s presidential administration has instructed officials to stop using Apple iPhones, according to a report in the Kommersant newspaper on Monday. Sergei Kiriyenko, the first deputy head of the presidential administration, instructed officials to change their phones by April […]
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EFF leader Julius Malema addressing the party’s supporters in Pretoria. Mon 20 March 2023: JOHANNESBURG, March 20 (Reuters) – Thousands marched through the streets of South Africa’s cities on Monday to demand that President Cyril Ramaphosa resign, as security forces guarded malls and roads to prevent violence and looting. The Marxist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) […]
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Mon 20 March 2023: Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Moscow for a state visit and talks with President Vladimir Putin, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Monday. A plane with Xi landed at landed at the Vnukovo-2 airport in Moscow. Xi Jinping will visit Moscow from March 20-22 at the invitation of Russian President […]
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