Satellite imagery released on Sunday appeared to show minor damage to the building. Sun 29 January 2023: Israel carried out a clandestine drone strike targeting a defense compound in Iran according to U.S. officials and people familiar with the operation”, Wall Street Journal reported. Some reports said several facilities were hit around Iran within a […]
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Sun 29 January 2023: On Sunday, Kwon Jong Gun, director general of the North Korean Foreign Ministry’s Department of US Affairs, once more refuted US accusations that Pyongyang was providing Russia with weapons and threatened Washington with “really undesirable” repercussions for circulating false information. “Had the U.S. not infringed upon the just security interests of […]
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Sun 29 January 2023: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday urged the establishment of “guardrails” to prevent hate speech, extremism and misinformation. “The online world is one of the main reasons that hate speech, extreme ideologies and misinformation are disseminating so fast around the world,” said the UN chief, calling on all those involved to […]
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Sun 29 January 2023: Former US President Donald Trump launched his 2024 presidential campaign with stops in early voting states New Hampshire and South Carolina, where he won the 2016 presidential election. Trump reiterated his early political campaign promise of “making America great again” at an evening event in South Carolina. “We will finish the […]
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Sun 29 January 2023: After an independent investigation into his tax affairs revealed a severe violation of the ministerial code, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak fired Conservative Party Chair Nadhim Zahawi from his position. Sunak wrote to Zahawi on Sunday and stated, “Following the completion of the Independent Adviser’s investigation – the findings of which […]
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Sun 29 January 2023: Reports and videos from Iran speak of multiple explosions and a fire at an ammunition factory in the Iranian city of Esfahan shortly after midnight local time. Following multiple reports by eyewitnesses after midnight, January 29, that an ammunition factory in Esfahan was hit by explosions and fire, Iran’s defense ministry […]
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Sat 28 January 2023: Japan has recorded more than 10,000 deaths from COVID-19 in January, the highest monthly tally since the start of the pandemic in 2020, the Kyodo news agency reported on Saturday, citing prefectural data. A total of 252 people died from COVID-19 in Japan over the past 24 hours, bringing this month’s […]
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Sat 28 January 2023: Russia’s defence ministry has accused Ukrainian forces of attacking a hospital in the eastern Luhansk region, leaving 14 dead and injuring 24 others. The ministry said in a statement that on Saturday morning in the town of Novoaidar, “the Ukrainian armed forces deliberately attacked the building of a district hospital” with […]
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Sat 28 January 2023: On Saturday, hours after a shooter shot and killed seven people outside a synagogue in one of the bloodiest such incidents in recent memory, a 13-year-old Palestinian kid shot and wounded a father and son in east Jerusalem. The two shootings defied international appeals for calm and represented a tragic new […]
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Sat 28 January 2023: Africa’s development partners committed $30 billion Friday to agricultural development and food sovereignty on the continent during the next five years. The announcement came at the closure of a continental food summit in Senegal’s capital, Dakar. The funding would be based on direct support in the delivery of agricultural and food […]
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