Sat 05 November 2022: The highlight of Pope Francis’ outreach tour to the Gulf was an open-air service attended by over 30,000 flag-waving believers on Saturday in Bahrain, a predominantly Muslim country. At Bahrain National Stadium, the largest venue in the kingdom, the crowd, some of whom were in tears, waited to witness the 85-year-old. […]
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Sat 05 November 2022: The formerly covert Wagner Group, a mercenary organization, has established its first formal headquarters in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The organization, run by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close supporter of President Vladimir Putin, unveiled its gleaming, multistory skyscraper on Friday. The building is topped with a giant white “Wagner” sign. Prigozhin himself, who […]
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Sat 05 November 2022: People calling for a boycott of the World Cup in Qatar are from a handful of countries that do not represent the rest of the world, which is looking forward to the tournament, Qatar’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani has said, Reuters reports. Qatar is the first Middle Eastern country […]
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Fri 04 November 2022: The World Bank has approved South Africa’s request for a $497 million project to decommission and repurpose the Komati coal-fired power plant using renewables and batteries. In a statement, the World Bank said the project would also create opportunities for the affected workers and communities. “This is in line with the […]
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Fri 04 November 2022: As emotions in the South Asian country remained high, the party of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was shot and hurt in what appeared to be an assassination attempt, announced that nationwide rallies will take place on Friday. Khan was leading a protest march on Islamabad on Thursday when […]
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Fri 04 November 2022: In a joint statement issued on Thursday, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his South Korean colleague Lee Jong-sup stated that any nuclear assault on the US or its allies would “result in the end of the Kim regime.” This comes after the North Korean regime conducted several missile launches over […]
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Fri 04 November 2022: Leading scholars in anti-Semitism said IHRA definition has been ‘hijacked’ to protect Israel from international criticism. More than 100 scholars have urged the United Nations not to adopt the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism due to its “divisive and polarising” effect. In a statement published on Thursday, the 128 scholars, who […]
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The city administration building in Kherson, with no Russian flag flying on the flagpole and seemingly no Russian troops present. Fri 04 November 2022: Russian forces may withdraw from the west side of the Dnieper river, according to a Moscow-installed official in the Kherson region. However, even as the United States expressed optimism about Ukraine’s […]
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Thu 03 November 2022: On Thursday, protestors and security forces in Iran clashed in a town close to the capital, resulting in at least two fatalities, according to state-run media, which also published graphic photographs of what appeared to be an attack on a police vehicle. It was the most recent in a string of […]
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Thu 03 November 2022: Britain’s newly appointed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that there are no plans to relocate the British embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. A Downing Street spokesperson told journalists at a press briefing yesterday that the controversial plan to shift the embassy had been dropped. Palestinian Ambassador to […]
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