Sun 19 February 2023: China warned the United States on Sunday it would “bear all the consequences” if it escalated the controversy over a Chinese balloon that the U.S. military shot down this month. Beijing will “follow through to the end” in the event “the U.S. insists on taking advantage of the issue”, the foreign ministry said in a statement. A U.S. […]
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Sat 18 February 2023: At least 53 people have been killed in an attack in Syria’s central desert province of Homs, state media has reported, blaming the killings on ISIL (ISIS). The bodies of the victims that were taken to the Palmyra state hospital had gunshot wounds to the head, state news agency SANA reported on Friday, […]
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Sat 18 February 2023: African leaders are gathering in Addis Abeba for an annual summit with the goal of reviving a stalled trade agreement while also concentrating on the most urgent issues facing the continent, such as armed conflict and a rising food crisis. The two-day African Union (AU) meeting in Ethiopia will aim to […]
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Sat 18 February 2023: The White House says 90 percent of Wagner Group fighters killed in Ukraine since December were convicts. Since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February, the Wagner mercenary force has suffered more than 30,000 casualties, with around 9,000 of those members dying in combat, according to claims made by the United States. […]
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Sat 18 February 2023: The bodies of at least 1,522 Syrians have been brought back to Syria from Turkey for burial, an official at the Bab al-Hawa border crossing said. Syrian survivors of the earthquake have also begun crossing back from Turkey. Some 1,795 Syrians crossed from Turkey into Syria on Wednesday, the first day […]
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Sat 18 February 2023: In a warning that the technology “could have unintended consequences,” nations including the United States and China asked for immediate action to limit the development and growing use of artificial intelligence in conflict. A two-day meet in The Hague involving more than 60 countries took the first steps towards establishing international rules on […]
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Fri 17 February 2023: Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad bin Jaber Al Thani, the chairman of one of Qatar’s biggest banks, has confirmed a bid to buy Manchester United. The move comes ahead of Friday’s 22:00 GMT ‘soft deadline’ for submitting proposals. Al Thani, chairman of one of Qatar’s biggest banks, has long been expected to […]
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Fri 17 February 2023: A Daesh group leader was killed and four US troops wounded in a US helicopter raid on northeast Syria, the Defense Department said in a statement on Friday. “Last night, during a partnered U.S. and Syrian Democratic Forces helicopter raid in northeastern Syria, an explosion on target resulted in four U.S. […]
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Fri 17 February 2023: Marina Yankina, an official in the Russian Ministry of Defence for the Western Military District, was found dead after having fallen down 16 storeys in St Petersburg, according to a report by The Independent. Marina reportedly played a crucial role in boosting financial support for Russia’s war in Ukraine. The publication reported […]
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Fri 17 February 2023: Alarm is growing over the World Food Programme’s (WFP) plan to cut food aid to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh because of a severe shortfall in funding. The WFP, the United Nations food agency, has said it will need to cut rations to the refugees […]
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