Sun 30 October 2022: According to Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, two vehicle bomb explosions in the country’s capital Mogadishu have resulted in at least 100 fatalities and 300 injuries. Mohamud told reporters on Sunday that he expected the death toll from the twin explosions to increase further and that the al-Shabab armed group was […]
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Sat 29 October 2022: Following attacks on ships in Crimea, Russia has banned participation in the agreement to export agricultural products from Ukrainian ports, the defence ministry was quoted as saying on Saturday by TASS. In the early hours of Saturday, according to Russia, Ukrainian forces targeted Black Sea Fleet ships in Sevastopol, the largest […]
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Sat 29 October 2022: Two car bombs exploded near important government offices in Mogadishu, causing “scores of civilian casualties,” according to Somali state media. The attack took place at the Zobe crossroads, where an al-Shabaab vehicle explosion in 2017 killed over 500 people. On Saturday, the president, prime minister, and other senior officials met to […]
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Sat 29 October 2022: The federal government has repatriated 17 Australian citizens who were left stranded in Syrian camps after the fall of the Islamic State (IS). Clare O’Neil, minister of home affairs, announced that four women and 13 children landed safely in Australia on Saturday morning. The group — the wives and children of […]
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Sat 29 October 2022: The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), said on Friday, that 103 million people were forcibly displaced from their homes in the first half of 2022, or one in every 77 people on Earth. This increase was caused by persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations, and seriously disturbing public order. According to […]
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Sat 29 October 2022: According to Russia’s defense ministry, representatives of a British Navy unit blew up the Nord Stream gas pipes in the Baltic Sea last month. The defence ministry provided no proof to back up its allegation. “According to available information, representatives of this unit of the British Navy took part in the […]
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Sat 29 October 2022: Kingdom Holding Company (KHC) of Saudi Arabia and Prince Alwaleed bin Talal’s private office will continue to own shares of Twitter worth at $1.89 billion after Elon Musk acquired the social media company, making them jointly the second-largest investors, the Saudi prince announced in a statement. The acquisition was in keeping […]
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Fri 28 October 2022: Iranian security forces have opened fired on protesters in Zahedan a month after a massacre that killed scores of people in the restive south-eastern city. Crowds were also fired on in Mahabad, another city with a long history of resistance against the regime, in renewed deadly violence at the end of […]
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Fri 28 October 2022: Following the recent disastrous flooding in Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Cameroon, the UN refugee agency warned on Friday that more than 3.4 million displaced people and their hosts urgently need assistance. Olga Sarrado, a spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), stated during a news […]
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Fri 28 October 2022: The sale of Twitter to tech billionaire Elon Musk was hailed by the former US president Donald Trump on Friday, who expressed his happiness that the company was “now in sane hands.” “I am very happy that Twitter is now in sane hands, and will no longer be run by Radical […]
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