Tue 07 March 2023: At least three Palestinians have been killed and nine others wounded on Tuesday in the latest Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, according to the Palestinian health ministry. An undercover Israeli unit was discovered in Jenin refugee camp around 3 pm before large military reinforcements followed it, eyewitnesses told Middle East Eye. […]
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Tue 07 March 2023: The cost of damage caused by devastating earthquakes in Turkey will exceed $100 billion, a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) official says ahead of a major donor conference next week. “It’s clear from the calculations being done to date that the damage figure presented by the government and supported by … […]
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Tue 07 March 2023: Turkish opposition parties on Monday declared Kemal Kilicdaroglu as a candidate against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the upcoming May election. One of the biggest parties in the opposition alliance, the nationalist IYI party, had been reluctant to endorse his nomination. The decision to announce Kilicdaroglu’s name came after “a 72-hour-long […]
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Tue 07 March 2023: The second-stage engine of Japan’s next-generation H3 rocket appears to have failed, causing the rocket to self-destruct shortly after launch. An observation satellite was to be launched during the mission. The rocket has been considered to be a possible rival to SpaceX’s Falcon 9. After the rocket failed to depart the […]
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Tue 07 March 2023: The United Nations said that a fire that ravaged a camp at Cox’s Bazar in southeast Bangladesh has left more than 12,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees homeless. According to the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the fire on Sunday damaged more than 2,000 shelters and over 90 buildings, including hospitals and educational facilities. […]
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Tue 07 March 2023: The conflict in Ukraine appears to be driven by an invisible hand pushing for the protraction and escalation of the conflict, according to China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang. While speaking at a press conference outside of the country’s annual parliamentary gathering in Beijing, Qin claimed that the “invisible hand” is “using […]
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Mon 06 March 2023: Fellow South Africans, Today, I am announcing a number of changes to the National Executive. The purpose of these changes is to ensure that government is properly capacitated and directed to give effect to the commitments made in the State of the Nation Address and the Budget Speech. We have said […]
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Mon 06 March 2023: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, a member of the opposition in Belarus, was given a 15-year prison sentence on Monday in abstentia, Anadolu Agency reported. According to the state news agency Belta, a court in the capital Minsk convicted Tsikhanouskaya and four other opposition figures of trying to seize state power in “an unconstitutional […]
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Mon 06 March 2023: Charities have criticised the government’s new plans to clamp down on refugees crossing the English Channel. The legislation will mean the home secretary will remove as soon as possible anyone arriving on a small boat and send them to Rwanda or another third country. This is despite the fact that in […]
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Mon 06 March 2023: Media regulator bars TV channels from broadcasting the former prime minister’s speeches and news conferences. Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s media regulator has banned television channels from broadcasting speeches and news conferences by Imran Khan, accusing the former prime minister of attacking the state’s institutions and promoting hatred. The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory […]
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