Sat 10 December 2022: Al Jazeera will be live at the awards in Norway to speak to the recipients about the importance of civil society in a time of war. This year’s Nobel Peace Prize will be presented on Saturday to Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian activists for promoting the right to criticise power and protect […]
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Sat 10 December 2022: In an effort to strengthen the position of the continent, US Vice President Joe Biden would support a permanent membership for the African Union in the Group of 20 major economies, the White House said. At the three-day US-Africa Summit, which begins on Tuesday in Washington, DC, Biden will make the […]
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Morocco’s shut-out of Belgium provokes celebrations in the stands and on the pitch [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]. Sat 10 December 2022: The Atlas Lions are now looking to become the first side from the continent to make it through to the semi-finals. As Morocco’s history-making football team prepares to take on 2016 European champions Portugal in […]
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Fri 09 December 2022: The United States believes Iran is looking at selling hundreds of ballistic missiles to Russia, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said on Friday. “We even believe that Iran is considering the sale of hundreds of ballistic missiles from Iran to Russia,” Kirby told a briefing. “We expect […]
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Fri 09 December 2022: China’s President, Xi Jinping, said in Riyadh on Friday that China and Gulf nations should make full use of the Shanghai Petroleum and National Gas Exchange as a platform to carry out Yuan settlement of oil and gas trade, Reuters reports. China and States of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are natural partners […]
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Fri 09 December 2022: Disclaimer: A number of claims and counterclaims are being made on the Ukraine-Russia conflict on the ground and online. While Independent Press takes utmost care to accurately report this developing news story, we cannot independently verify the authenticity of all statements, photos and videos. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s new video went […]
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Fri 09 December 2022: About 200 mostly Muslim Rohingya have been drifting for more than a week in the Andaman Sea after their boat broke down. The United Nations Refugee Agency has urged countries in Southeast Asia to rescue some 200 Rohingya refugees whose unseaworthy boat has been reported drifting in the Andaman Sea. The […]
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Fri 09 December 2022: Independent journalist Bari Weiss says platform restricted visibility of ‘disfavored tweets’. Twitter created “secret” blacklists to limit the visibility of “disfavored tweets” and certain right-leaning accounts, independent journalist Bari Weiss has claimed, citing an investigation based on internal company documents. Weiss, a former New York Times opinion editor who now runs […]
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Fri 09 December 2022: The Biden administration’s exchange of Russian businessman Viktor Bout for imprisoned US basketball player Brittney Griner is an unpatriotic embarrassment for the United States, former President Donald Trump said on Thursday. “What kind of a deal is it to swap Brittney Griner, a basketball player who openly hates our country, for […]
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Fri 09 December 2022: Russian military company Wagner announced on Thursday that it had opened a cultural center in Serbia’s capital Belgrade. In a statement, the mercenary group said the “friendship and cooperation center” would focus on public diplomacy as its mission “to strengthen and develop friendly relations between Russia and Serbia with the help of ‘soft power’.” The […]
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