Thu 01 December 2022: Saudi Arabia is to host a Chinese-Arab summit on 9 December, which will coincide with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the Kingdom, Reuters reported yesterday, citing three Arab diplomats. A Chinese delegation led by Xi is scheduled to arrive in Riyadh on 7 December, said two of the diplomats, and a fourth […]
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Thu 01 December 2022: The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) says Swiss engineering company, Asea Brown Boveri (ABB), is expected to pay some R2.5 billion in “punitive reparations to South Africa” for its part in State Capture. The company was allegedly irregularly awarded a lucrative control and instrumentation contract at Eskom’s Kusile Power Station in 2015 […]
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Thu 01 December 2022: The NATO alliance, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, is bringing more destruction and suffering, Anadolu Agency reported. The uncontrolled expansion of NATO has diminished the validity of the OSCE’s founding principles, and Lavrov claimed that the expansion was undertaken quite actively and purposefully. Stressing Russia tried to keep the […]
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Thu 01 December 2022: A spokesman for the armed group said its leader Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, was killed ‘in combat’. The ISIL (ISIS) armed group has announced that its leader Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi has been killed in battle. A spokesman for the group said on Wednesday that Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, an Iraqi, died “in […]
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Thu 01 December 2022: President Cyril Ramaphosa says he “categorically denies” allegations that he has violated his oath of office. This as the independent Section 89 panel – formed to look into the robbery at the Phala Phala game farm – found that the President may have seriously violated sections 96(2)(a) of the Constitution and […]
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Thu 01 December 2022: International Labour Organization says real wages declined 0.9 percent in the first half of 2022. Global wages fell in 2022 for the first time since the global financial crisis due to soaring living costs, threatening to worsen inequality and drive social unrest, the United Nations labour agency has warned. Monthly wages […]
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Wed 30 November 2022: At least 15 people, including several children, were killed in a bombing at a religious school in the Samangan province of northern Afghanistan, according to a local authority. At least 20 additional people were also injured in the explosion at the school in Aybak, the capital of Samangan, on Wednesday, according […]
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Turkish defence minister Akar inspects troops at the border with Iraq together with commanders of the Turkish army. Wed 30 November 2022: Russia has been working to meet Turkiye’s demands in northern Syria as an alternative to the Turkish military ground operation, Turkish officials said. According to the officials, Ankara demanded that the Syrian Democratic […]
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Wed 30 November 2022: Kristi Noem, the governor of the US state of South Dakota, signed an executive order on Wednesday prohibiting government employees from using the TikTok video platform because it may pose a threat to national security. “South Dakota will have no part in the intelligence gathering operations of nations who hate us. […]
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Wed 30 November 2022: The Russian Defense Ministry will pay special attention in 2023 to the development of capital construction for nuclear forces, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday. “When preparing the list of capital construction projects for 2023, special attention will be paid to construction for strategic nuclear forces,” Shoigu said. The minister […]
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