Fri 03 March 2023: President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said the era of French interference in Africa was “well over” as he began a four-nation tour of the continent to renew frayed ties. Anti-French sentiment runs high in some former African colonies as the continent becomes a renewed diplomatic battleground, with Russian and Chinese influence […]
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Fri 03 March 2023: China leads the world in 37 out of 44 critical technologies, with Western democracies falling behind in the race for scientific and research breakthroughs, a report by an Australian think tank has found. China is in a position to become the world’s top technology superpower, with its dominance already spanning defence, […]
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Fri 03 March 2023: Today 3rd March, 99 years ago, the then British Foreign Minister Lord Curzon warned, “We must put an end to anything which brings about any Islamic unity between the sons of the Muslims. The situation now is that Turkey is dead and will never rise again, because we have destroyed its […]
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Thu 02 March 2023: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have met briefly at a meeting of top diplomats from the Group of 20 (G20) nations in the first high-level meeting in months between the two countries. US officials said Blinken and Lavrov chatted for roughly 10 minutes on […]
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Thu 02 March 2023: Protesters clashed with police in the Greek capital Athens, after a passenger train carrying more than 350 people, collided with a freight train on Tuesday evening, in Tempi, leaving at least 46 people dead and scores injured. The death toll is expected to rise. The Greek transport minister resigned in the […]
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Thu 02 March 2023: Chaos erupted when a group of right-wing workers vandalised a stall containing Christian spiritual books at the New Delhi World Book Fair held in Pragati Maidan on March 1. A video has emerged on social media Twitter where around 30 men wearing saffron scarves and tilak on their forehead can be […]
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Thu 02 March 2023: On Thursday, an astronaut crew headed for the International Space Station was launched by SpaceX and NASA. Four astronauts were launched by SpaceX for a prolonged month-long stay. Just after midnight, the Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Kennedy Space Center. According to NASA, the Crew-6 launch carried two astronauts from […]
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In this photo from the US Army, anti-tank missiles and medium-range ballistic missile components seized by the UK Royal Navy sit pier side at an undisclosed location in the Middle East [Sgt Brandon Murphy/US Army via AP] Thu 02 March 2023: The British navy says it has seized anti-tank missiles and fins for ballistic missile […]
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Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya. PHOTO: Christiaan du Plessis. Thu 02 March 2023: President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to announce a Minister of Electricity and a reshuffled Cabinet “in a matter of days”. This is according to Presidential spokesperson Vincent Magwenya, who was addressing media on Wednesday. “There are vacancies in Cabinet. We also now have […]
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Thu 02 March 2023: Britain’s food insecure households number nearly double the number from the previous year, affecting 3.7 million children according to a new report. According to a study released on Wednesday by The Food Foundation, approximately 22% of households this January reported that their children had directly experienced food insecurity in the previous […]
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