Fri 28 October 2022: Imran Khan, a former Pakistani prime minister, started a “long march” on the country’s capital Islamabad to urge for early elections, applying more pressure to an administration. Despite being removed from government in April by a no-confidence vote following defections by several of his coalition partners, the former international cricket player […]
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Fri 28 October 2022: The Chenchen leader and close ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin, Ramzan Kadyrov, said on Thursday (October 27) that 23 soldiers had been killed and 58 others injured in an artillery bombardment by Ukraine this week. Kadyrov claimed the instance happened in southern Kherson in a Telegram statement. He said, “All […]
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Fri 28 October 2022: Family members of US federal workers were told to leave Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, on Thursday by the State Department due to heightened risk of terrorist attacks. The order comes two days after the department asked non-emergency US government employees and family members to leave the city. In its travel […]
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Fri 28 October 2022: Elon Musk has officially taken control of Twitter after finalising a $44bn deal to buy the social media network. In one of his first decisions at the helm of the social media giant, Musk fired three top executives including CEO Parag Agrawal, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, local time, citing […]
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Fri 28 October 2022: Kampala, Uganda – The Ugandan government is under pressure to bring an escalating Ebola outbreak under control, after the health minister announced that six schoolchildren in the capital city, Kampala, have tested positive for the virus. At least 15 people in Kampala are now confirmed to have been infected with Ebola, according […]
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Thu 27 October 2022: On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin slammed the West for engaging in a “dangerous, bloody, and dirty” geopolitical game, but he said that eventually, the United States and its allies will have to engage Russia in dialogue, Anadolu Agency reported. “Power over the world is what the so-called West has put […]
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US mediator Amos Hochstein, left, and Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun pose for a picture as they hold a letter at the presidential palace in Baabda, Beirut, on 27 October 2022 Thu 27 October 2022: Israeli and Lebanese leaders finalised a US-brokered maritime demarcation on Thursday, bringing a measure of accommodation between the enemy States, as […]
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Thu 27 October 2022: International Relations and Cooperation Minister, Naledi Pandor, has called on the global community to collaborate in combating terrorism. Speaking ahead of an official State Visit by Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, Pandor said the government was concerned about the terror alert issued by the US Embassy about a possible attack […]
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Thu 27 October 2022: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has documented at least 5,684 deaths on migration routes to and within Europe since the beginning of 2021, the UN agency said on Wednesday. In a statement, the IOM said there were increasing numbers of deaths seen on routes across the Mediterranean, on land borders to Europe, and within the continent. “We’ve recorded […]
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Thu 27 October 2022: Commercial satellites from the United States and its allies could become legitimate targets for Russia if they took part in the conflict in Ukraine, according to a senior member of the Russian foreign ministry, Reuters reported. “Quasi-civilian infrastructure may be a legitimate target for a retaliatory strike,” Konstantin Vorontsov, deputy director of […]
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