Wed 15 February 2023: After eight years in the position, Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has resigned. “This decision comes from a deeper and longer-term assessment. I know it might seem sudden, but I have been wrestling with it, albeit with oscillating levels of intensity, for some weeks,” said Sturgeon as she announced her resignation […]
Continue Reading
Wed 15 February 2023: Ukrainian forces have repelled some Russian attacks in Luhansk, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office has said after Moscow claimed its own troops had made advances in the eastern region. “Over the past day, units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine repelled attacks by the (Russian) occupiers in the Nevskyi, Kreminna and Bilohorivka […]
Continue Reading
Rising sea levels contributed to this house collapsing on the shoreline in Rodanthe, North Carolina, during a storm last year.Credit: National Park Service/AP/Shutterstock Wed 15 February 2023: Rising sea levels exacerbated by climate change are imperiling the livelihoods of future generations and are increasingly contributing to worldwide conflict and instability, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned […]
Continue Reading
Wed 15 February 2023: South Africa is joining the global community to observe International Childhood Cancer Day to raise awareness and improve understanding of childhood cancer. International Childhood Cancer Day is observed annually across the world on February 15, with this year’s campaign observed under the #ThroughTheirHands theme, which focuses on paying tribute to the […]
Continue Reading
A rescue dog sniffs the debris of a ruined building while search and rescue operations continue on Feb. 9, 2023, in Elbistan, Turkey. – Mehmet Kacmaz/Getty Images Wed 15 February 2023: Trained rescue dogs are helping to find survivors buried underneath layers of concrete and otherwise undetectable. Hours after two huge earthquakes and hundreds of aftershocks struck […]
Continue Reading
Tue 14 February 2023: In order to support the Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh’s remote island of Bhasan Char and the southern border region of Cox’s Bazar, Japan has agreed to provide $5.7 million to UNICEF, Anadolu Agency reported. According to a UNICEF statement on Tuesday, an exchange of notes was signed by […]
Continue Reading
Tue 14 February 2023: “I expect this to at least double over the coming days, as we get a better assessment of the massive scale of this crisis and the needs,” said WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge in a press briefing related to urgent health needs and response in Türkiye following last week’s […]
Continue Reading
Police officers stand outside the BBC’s office in New Delhi, India on February 14, 2023. Tue 14 February 2023: Just a few weeks after the release of a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which was subsequently banned by the government, India’s tax department authorities stormed the BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai. More […]
Continue Reading
Tue 14 February 2023: The head of a Syrian opposition-run rescue group has denounced a United Nations decision to seek authorisation from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the delivery of aid to earthquake-stricken northwestern Syria through additional border crossings with Turkey, saying it allowed him to score a “political gain”. “This is shocking and we are at […]
Continue Reading
Tue 14 February 2023: Government has declared a National State of Disaster to enable an intensive, coordinated response to the impact of floods that are affecting Mpumalanga, the Eastern Cape, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, the Northern Cape and North West provinces. The declaration, made in terms of the Disaster Management Act of 2002, was on Monday […]
Continue Reading
