Wed 01 March 2023: Russia’s Foreign Ministry said, on Wednesday, that Moscow would only agree to extend the Black Sea grain deal, which allows grain to be safely exported from Ukrainian ports, if the interests of its agricultural producers are taken into account, Reuters reports. “(The) Russian side stressed that continuing the package agreement on grain is […]
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Wed 01 March 2023: The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced Tuesday that the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic likely came from a laboratory in China. “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray in a statement posted on Twitter. […]
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Wed 01 March 2023: Following a head-on collision between two trains in central Greece that left dozens of people dead and scores more injured, rescue workers are desperately looking for survivors. The Greek Fire Service reported that at least 36 people were killed on Tuesday night, just before midnight, in Tempi, central Greece, close to […]
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President-elect Bola Tinubu (C) President Buhari (R). Wed 01 March 2023: Bola Tinubu, the politician long heralded as the “father of modern Lagos”, has won a tight race to succeed Muhammadu Buhari as the next president of Nigeria. Tinubu, “having satisfied the requirements of the law, is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected”, […]
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Wed 01 March 2023: For security reasons, the European Parliament has decided to ban the Chinese short video-sharing app TikTok from staff phones, becoming the third EU institution to do so after the European Commission and the European Council. An EU official said on Tuesday that the planned ban will also apply to private devices […]
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Wed 01 March 2023: :Dozens of Iranian schoolgirls needed hospital treatment on Tuesday after another mysterious poisoning, a news agency reported, the latest in a spate of suspected attacks in the Islamic republic. Hundreds of cases of respiratory distress have been reported in the past three months among schoolgirls mainly in the holy city of […]
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Tue 28 February 2023: A devastating earthquake that struck Türkiye and Syria killed more than 50,000 people, in a toll revised by AFP that includes figures from both government and rebel-controlled parts of war-torn Syria. A total of 5,951 people were killed across Syria, while Türkiye recorded 44,374 deaths after the February 6 earthquake. The new tally brings to 50,325 the […]
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The Ukrainian UJ22 drone that crashed near Moscow. Tue 28 February 2023: Following a wave of drone attacks that Moscow blamed on Kiev, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered officials to tighten border controls with Ukraine. This comes a year after Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor. Tuesday’s drone crash, which occurred just 100 […]
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Tue 28 February 2023: Canada banned TikTok from all government devices Monday for security reasons and it could be the start of a further crackdown, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. “This may be a first step, it may be the only step we need to take, but every step of the way we’re going to […]
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Tue 28 February 2023: International Relations and Cooperation Minister, Dr Naledi Pandor, has described the “prepper” warning issued by the US Embassy in South Africa to stock up on food and water as the country continues to rollout load shedding as “odd”. This comes after the US government warned its citizens in South Africa to […]
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