Wed 19 October 2022: Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree imposing martial law in four “annexed” regions of Ukraine – Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson. “It will immediately be sent for approval to the Federation Council, and the State Duma will be informed of the decision,” Putin said in televised remarks at the […]
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Wed 19 October 2022: India’s opposition Congress party elected a former minister on Wednesday as its first president in 24 years not from the Gandhi dynasty, in an effort to reverse its electoral decline amid the rise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Mallikarjun Kharge, 80, was appointed by members over fellow politician Shashi […]
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Wed 19 October 2022: Iran has promised to provide Russia with surface to surface missiles, in addition to more drones, two senior Iranian officials and two Iranian diplomats told Reuters, a move that is likely to infuriate the United States and other Western powers. A deal was agreed on 6 October, when Iran’s First Vice President, […]
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Wed 19 October 2022: Britain’s annual consumer inflation rate increased to 10.1% in September, up from 9.9% in August, official data showed on Wednesday. The figure returned to July’s 40-year high due to rising food prices, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in a statement. The prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages jumped 14.5% […]
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Wed 19 October 2022: Somalia faces famine on a scale last seen half a century ago, the United Nations has said as it set a new target of more than $2bn in funding needs. “Things are bad and every sign indicates that they are going to get worse,” James Elder, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) […]
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Tue 18 October 2022: Another schoolgirl has reportedly been killed by the Iranian security services after she was beaten in her classroom for refusing to sing a pro-regime song when her school was raided last week, sparking further protests across the country this weekend. According to the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations, 16-year-old Asra […]
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Tue 18 October 2022: Households in Britain may see blackouts and gas outages in the coming winter between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. amid an ongoing energy crisis, the head of the National Grid warned. John Pettigrew said electricity and gas may be switched off on “those deepest, darkest evenings in January and February” if energy supplies suffer due to the war in Ukraine. The move […]
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and his Western Sahara counterpart President Brahim Ghali. Tue 18 October 2022: President Cyril Ramaphosa has reaffirmed South Africa’s support for the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, commonly referred to as Western Sahara, which has endured a long territorial dispute between Morocco and its indigenous Sahrawi people. “Morocco’s illegal occupation […]
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Tue 18 October 2022: Free-range eggs will be banned soon in Britain after the government declared an avian influenza prevention zone (AIPZ) in the country on Monday. The measure comes as Britain grapples with its largest-ever outbreak of bird flu. The situation is most severe in the east of England. As a consequence of the […]
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Tue 18 October 2022: As local government officials scramble to provide assistance to hundreds of thousands of people being evacuated from their submerged homes, the death toll from floods in Nigeria this year has risen to 603. The disaster, which has affected residents in 33 of Nigeria’s 36 states, has caused more than 1.3 million […]
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