Tue 6 December 2022: Friday’s Independence Day celebrations in Tanzania have been canceled by President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who has instead ordered that the funds be utilized to construct dormitories for kids with special needs. The $445,000 cost of the 61st Independence Day celebration will be utilized to construct eight dormitories in elementary schools around […]
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Tue 6 December 2022: VTB, the state-owned, second largest bank in Russia, has reported the largest cyberattack in its history. Officials said the bank was repelling the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, in which hackers attempt to flood a network with unusually high volumes of data traffic in order to paralyse it. VTB said […]
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Tue 6 December 2022: Network says evidence it presented overturns claims by Israeli authorities that the Palestinian journalist was killed in a crossfire. The Hague, the Netherlands – Al Jazeera Media Network has submitted a formal request to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and prosecute those responsible for killing veteran Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. […]
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Tue 6 December 2022: The Reserve Bank of Australia has raised interest rates to a decade high, putting mortgage holders under even more strain as it seeks to cool soaring prices. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) raised the benchmark rate, which determines how much commercial banks charge for loans, by a quarter percentage point […]
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Tue 6 December 2022: The National Assembly Programming Committee (NAPC) has postponed to next week Tuesday the debate on the Section 89 Panel Report, which looks into the robbery at the Phala Phala game farm. “The NAPC has, during its urgent meeting convened on Monday evening, resolved to defer the consideration of the Section 89 […]
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Tue 6 December 2022: New Delhi: The rise of Hindutva and Ram temple politics in the 1980s and 1990s led to the demolition of the Babri Mosque which stood at the spot where the Sangh parivar claimed that the Hindu community believed that Ram was born. The Wire takes a look at the personalities and the events […]
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Tue 6 December 2022: Indonesia has passed a new Criminal Code that makes sex outside of marriage and cohabitation illegal. The new laws apply to both Indonesians and foreigners and reinstate a ban on insulting the president, state institutions, or Pancasila, Indonesia’s national ideology. The new criminal code, which was approved unanimously by parliament on […]
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Mon 25 December 2022: Iranian activists called for a new wave of protests starting today with the aim of inflicting economic damage on the country, as part of ongoing demonstrations which erupted after a 22-year-old woman died while in police custody. Citizens were called upon to refrain from shopping for the next three days with […]
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Mon 25 December 2022: According to NBC news, which cited the Secret Service, hackers with connections to the Chinese government are accused of stealing US COVID-19 relief benefits of at least $20 million. According to the article, this is the first incident of this kind of fraud involving foreign state-sponsored cybercriminals that the US government […]
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Mon 25 December 2022: Proudly Muslim Qatar has taken advantage of the World Cup to reach out to the hundreds of thousands of visiting fans to change minds about Islam or even make conversions. The Gulf emirate is the first Muslim nation to stage a football World Cup and its gas riches have endowed it […]
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