Thu 24 November 2022: The U.N. human rights chief on Thursday made a strong appeal to Iranian authorities to stop their “unnecessary and disproportionate” use of force against protesters in Iran in a speech to the Human Rights Council on the ongoing crisis. “We are now in a full-fledged human rights crisis,” High Commissioner of Human Rights Volker Turk said in […]
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Thu 24 November 2022: Veteran politician finally secures top post after inconclusive election led to days of haggling and monarch’s intervention. Anwar Ibrahim has been named Malaysia’s new prime minister, marking an incredible comeback for a man who was first lined up for the job in the boom years of the 1990s before he was […]
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Wed 23 November 2022: The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has ruled that the Scottish government cannot hold a second referendum on independence next year without the approval of the British parliament, effectively killing nationalists’ hopes of holding a vote in 2023. Scots rejected ending the more than 300-year-old union with England by a […]
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Wed 23 November 2022: A hardliner Iranian lawmaker has confirmed that the Revolutionary Guard’s Ground Forces have been deployed to Kurdish areas to crack down on protesters. Mohammad Esmail Kowsari representing Tehran in the parliament who was a commander of the IRGC’s Sarallah Headquarters tasked with the capital’s security, claimed in an interview Wednesday that […]
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Wed 23 November 2022: Pope Francis says Ukrainians are suffering today from the “martyrdom of aggression” and compared Russia’s war in Ukraine to the “terrible genocide” of Soviet leader Josef Stalin’s famine in the country. In his weekly general address, Francis spoke to thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square and mentioned the “Holodomor”, or […]
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Wed 23 November 2022: Police Minister Bheki Cele has once again raised concern at the country’s alarming rate of crimes against women and children. This after Quarter 2 of 2022 crime statistics saw a double-digit percentage increase for murder, attempted murder and assault GBH [grievous bodily harm] against women. The Minister on Wednesday released the […]
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Wed 23 November 2022: The current army chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, is to step down on November 29 after serving for six years. Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s nuclear-armed army will soon have a new commander, with the prime minister’s office confirming that it had received a list of names of six senior generals for arguably […]
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Wed 23 November 2022: The EU has decided to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, arguing that Moscow’s military strikes on energy infrastructure, hospitals, schools and shelters violate international law. The move is mainly symbolic since the European Parliament does not have a legal framework to support it. The bloc has already placed […]
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Wed 23 November 2022: A shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake – Virginia on Tuesday night, killed and injured several people, though the exact number was not immediately known, the shooter was among those who died, according to the police. Officers responded to a report of a shooting at the store around 10:15 p.m. and […]
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Wed 23 November 2022: According to Israeli authorities, two separate explosions that shook Jerusalem city resulted in at least one fatality and 12 injuries. The assaults on Wednesday morning are thought to be Palestinian attacks, according to Israeli police. A 16-year-old Palestinian teen was slain by Israeli forces in the city of Nablus in the […]
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