Sat 22 October 2022: On Saturday, residents of Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine, were ordered to leave the city immediately by authorities installed by Russia. The order was cited as being the result of the “tense military situation.” After warnings of an impending Ukrainian offensive to retake the city, thousands of civilians have been […]
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Sat 22 October 2022: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has stated that his country cannot accept US threats to Saudi Arabia after the OPEC+ decision to reduce oil production. In a statement reported by Turkiye’s Anadolu Agency, Cavusoglu announced: “We are seeing that a country is threatening Saudi Arabia, and this bullying is not correct.” He […]
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Sat 22 October 2022: Zimbabwe has become the first nation in Africa and the third nation overall to approve an HIV prevention drug that the World Health Organization recently recommended (WHO). Zimbabwe has approved the use of long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention, recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO) […]
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Sat 22 October 2022: Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson returned to Britain on Saturday after cutting short a Caribbean vacation to enter the race to succeed Liz Truss as Conservative leader. It would be an audacious return to power for Johnson, who only left office early last month after dozens of resignations from his government […]
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Sat 22 October 2022: The Netherlands, Indonesia’s former colonial ruler, has been asked to return eight collections of historical artifacts from its museums, including the bones of “Java Man,” the first known fossils of the Homo erectus species from which humans are thought to have evolved, Reuters reported. The “looted” artifacts include statues from Java’s […]
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Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud, Minister of Energy, Saudi Arabia. Fri 21 October 2022: Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, and the Director of China’s National Energy Administration, Zhang Jianhua, on Friday said they would strengthen their ties in the energy sector, the Saudi state news agency, SPA, reported. The officials spoke in a […]
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Fri 21 October 2022: Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s election commission, in a unanimous decision, has found former Prime Minister Imran Khan guilty of “corrupt practices” and disqualified him from being a member of parliament. Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party immediately rejected Friday’s ruling and called on supporters to take to the streets. Faisal Fareed Chaudhry, part […]
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Fri 21 October 2022: According to a report released Wednesday, COVID19 was responsible for a dramatic increase in the number of women who died from pregnancy or childbirth complications in the United States last year, a crisis that disproportionately affected Black and Hispanic women. The research outlines depressing national patterns for expectant mothers and their newborn children. According to the study, there have been an increase in pregnancy-related mortality of almost 80% since 2018, with COVID-19 being a contributing factor in 25% of the 1,178 deaths reported in 2018. In addition, following years of […]
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Fri 21 October 2022: South Africa will resolve its electricity challenges, says President Cyril Ramaphosa. “Much as we are still dealing with the challenges of load shedding with Eskom, if we look through the tunnel, we see the light. We are going to resolve our energy challenges,” said President Ramaphosa. The President said this following […]
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Fri 21 October 2022: The most recent ethnic clashes over land disputes took place in Sudan’s southern Blue Nile state, where fighting lasted for two days and resulted in at least 150 deaths. Crowds protested in the streets of the state capital of Blue Nile, Damazin, on Thursday, chanting slogans decrying a conflict that has […]
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