Fri 18 November 2022: Russian airstrikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure have left more than 10 million people without electricity as winter sets in and temperatures drop, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky. Russia accused Ukraine’s failure to negotiate an end to the war that started on February 24 for the suffering of civilians in Ukraine despite […]
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Thu 17 November 2022: According to local authorities, a fire that started in a residential building in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip resulted in at least 21 fatalities and numerous injuries. According to eyewitness the fire quickly spread across the flat and into the rest of the three-story structure. The blaze has now […]
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Thu 17 November 2022: Countries must take “serious action” to halt the deterioration of climatic conditions, according to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday. “The world is watching and has a simple message: stand and deliver. Deliver the kind of meaningful climate action that people and the planet so desperately need. Global emissions are at […]
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Thu 17 November 2022: The popular short-form video sharing app TikTok has been dubbed a “national security threat” by FBI Director Christopher Wray amid worries that the Chinese government would utilize the data of millions of users. Wray told the US House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee during a hearing on “worldwide threats to the […]
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Thu 17 November 2022: South Africa recorded a 16.9% increase in the number of new cases detected in week 45 of 2022, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Thursday. The latest data show that the country now has 4 034 234 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases, 2 938 of which were logged since the […]
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Thu 17 November 2022: Two people were shot dead Wednesday in Iran’s central city of Isfahan, hours after five people were killed in an armed attack in the country’s southwest. The latest incident took place around 9.00 p.m. local time (1730GMT) in the Khane Esfahan area of the city when two motorcycle riders armed with […]
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Thu 17 November 2022: Coalition of rights groups and academics calls on the government to strengthen anti-slavery legislation. Australian businesses are still failing to address clear forced labour risks in their supply chains nearly four years after the introduction of landmark modern slavery laws, an investigation by human rights groups has found. Two out of three companies […]
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Thu 17 November 2022: Zelenskyy has announced that the Black Sea grain deal will be extended by 120 days with the efforts of Turkey and the UN. “Grain Deal will be prolonged for 120 days. Ukraine together with (UN Secretary-General) Antonio Guterres and (Turkish President) Recep Tayyip Erdogan made key decision in the global fight […]
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The Brazilian street artist Paulo Ito. It depicts a weeping, starving Brazilian boy at a dinner table, where instead of food, he is being served a football on a golden platter. The mural was painted on the entrance of a public schoolhouse in São Paulo. Thu 17 November 2022: The winners of the Qatar World […]
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Wed 16 November 2022: Russia’s economy has entered a recession as gross domestic output fell by four percent in the third quarter, according to first estimates published Wednesday by the national statistics agency, Rosstat. The drop follows a similar four percent contraction in the second quarter, as Western sanctions pummel Russia’s economy following Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine. NEWS […]
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