Sat 17 December 2022: The UN estimated 2.9 million people have been displaced by severe flooding in west and central Africa. The death toll in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to rise following heavy rain and extreme flooding that have ravaged the country in recent days. At least 169 people have died as […]
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Sat 17 December 2022: Saturday’s vote appears to inspire little enthusiasm across Tunisia amid widespread disillusionment over political dysfunction and an ongoing economic crisis. It comes 12 years after Tunisian vegetable seller Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in an act of protest that sparked the Arab Spring – a series of popular uprisings across […]
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Sat 17 December 2022: German police said Friday they have taken down three darknet sites used to distribute images and videos of child sexual abuse. Federal Criminal Police said four men were arrested in connection with the sites. The sites had hundreds of thousands of registered users, making them among the biggest platforms worldwide for sharing child abuse images, police said. […]
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Fri 16 December 2022: Angelina Jolie and the United Nations Refugee Agency are parting ways after more than two decades of working together. In a joint statement issued Friday, the actress and the agency announced she was “moving on” from her role as the agency’s special envoy “to engage on a broader set of humanitarian and human rights issues.” […]
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Fri 16 December 2022: Pakistan’s foreign minister has called India’s prime minister the “butcher of Gujarat” after his counterpart accused his country of being the “epicentre of terrorism” as the nuclear-armed neighbours engage in a war of words at the United Nations. The heated exchange between Pakistan’s Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and India’s Subrahmanyam Jaishankar came after […]
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Fri 16 December 2022: Egypt has discovered a large natural gas reserve in the Nargis block in the eastern Mediterranean, according to local media on Thursday. Evaluation is still ongoing to determine the gas field’s reserves, Petroleum Minister Tarek El Molla was quoted in the Al-Ahram newspaper. The new field was named “Narges” and comes […]
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Fri 16 December 2022: Former tennis superstar Boris Becker has departed for Germany after his release from a British prison where he served a sentence relating to his 2017 bankruptcy, according to his lawyer. The 55-year-old German six-time Grand Slam champion “was released from custody in England and has left for Germany today”, his Berlin-based […]
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Fri 16 December 2022: Residents were warned to take cover in cities across Ukraine, including the capital, Kyiv, southern Kryvyi Rih and northeastern Kharkiv, as Russian strikes hit critical infrastructure, according to local officials. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on the Telegram social media app that the city is without electricity, with the regional governor, […]
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Thu 15 December 2022: US President Joe Biden called Thursday for the African Union to become a permanent member of G-20. “Today I’m also calling for the African Union to join the G20 as a permanent member,” Biden said in remarks at a U.S.-Africa summit in Washington. “Africa belongs to the table in every room, in every […]
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Thu 15 December 2022: World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday called on China to share the requested data concerning Covid-19 in a bid to understand the origins of the virus. “We continue to call on China to share the data and conduct the studies that we have requested, to better understand […]
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