Sun 26 February 2023: Jordan will host a meeting between senior Israeli and Palestinian officials in an effort to stop the recent spike in fatal violence in the occupied West Bank that has fueled concerns about a wider escalation, according to sources. Representatives from Egypt and the United States will attend the summit on Sunday […]
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Sat 25 February 2023: Following President Kais Saied’s remarks about migrants from other parts of the continent, the African Union (AU) criticized Tunisia and advised it to refrain from “racialized hate speech.” On Tuesday, Saied issued an order for the expulsion of all unauthorized immigrants from Tunisia, claiming that immigration was a scheme to alter […]
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Sat 25 February 2023: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has moved South Africa to the grey list, placing the country to increased monitoring, counter-money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing. it was confirmed in an update on its website on Friday. On Friday, the France-based global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog explained that when it […]
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Sat 25 February 2023: Shamima Begum, the British-born national who travelled to Syria as a schoolgirl to join ISIL (ISIS), has lost her latest appeal against the removal of her citizenship. Her lawyers on Wednesday vowed to keep fighting, saying the case was “nowhere near over”. The British government stripped Begum of her citizenship in 2019, shortly […]
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Sat 25 February 2023: Elections for the Nigerian presidency and both houses of the federal parliament are being held across the country’s 36 states, in what is set to be the sixth successive civilian-to-civilian transition of power since a return to democracy in 1999. Eighteen candidates are jostling to succeed Muhammadu Buhari, who steps down as […]
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speak to Polish soldiers next to the first Leopard 2 tanks delivered from Poland to Ukraine on February 24, Sat 25 February 2023: On the anniversary of Moscow’s all-out invasion of Ukraine, the European Union has authorized a tenth round of sanctions against the […]
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Sat 25 February 2023: Afghan special forces are being drafted into the Ukraine War to fight alongside Russian mercenaries known as the Wagner Group. Despite the US spending hundreds of billions training up these Afghan commandos, they were left stranded after the 2021 fall of Kabul and will now be taking up arms against US […]
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Fri 24 February 2023: Turkiye has begun initial work to rebuild homes following this month’s devastating earthquakes, a government official said on Friday, as a UN Development Program (UNDP) estimated 1.5 million people have been left homeless, Reuters reports. More than 160,000 buildings containing 520,000 apartments collapsed, or were severely damaged, in the 6 February earthquakes that killed […]
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Fri 24 February 2023: At least 5,909 irregular migrants died in 2022 in the quest for a “better life,” a UN report said. The report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that 2,406 of the migrants died in the Mediterranean, followed by the Americas where 1,318 migrants died. This was followed by Africa […]
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On the eve of the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a vigil is being held on London’s Trafalgar Square.. Fri 24 February 2023: Western leaders are voicing their support of Ukraine on the first anniversary of the Russian invasion, the biggest attack by one state against another in Europe since World War II. Ukrainian […]
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