Fri 14 October 2022: The Swiss government has submitted a draft law to the parliament that would impose a $1,000 fine on those who violate the country’s ban on face coverings. Following the vote in the referendum to forbid face coverings last year, the draft law was sent on Wednesday. 51.2 percent of voters approved […]
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Fri 14 October 2022: Evacuees from Ukraine’s southern Kherson region were expected to begin arriving in Russia on Friday, Reuters reports, after a Moscow-installed official suggested residents should leave for safety, a sign of Moscow’s weakening hold on territory it claims to have annexed. “We suggested that all residents of the Kherson region, if they […]
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Thu 13 October 2022: On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Turkey establish a natural gas hub. Speaking on the sidelines of a regional gathering in Kazakhstan, Putin said building a hub in Türkiye would allow, among other things, regulating prices, selling gas at market prices, “not […]
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Thu 13 October 2022: Abdul Latif Rashid was chosen as the new president of Iraq by the Iraqi parliament on Thursday after defeating outgoing President Barham Salih in the vote. According to the official Iraqi news agency, Rashid received 162 votes while Salih only received 99. After the candidates were unable to win the support […]
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Thu 13 October 2022: A bomb detonated on a military bus close to Damascus, killing at least 18 soldiers and injuring another 27, according to Syrian state media, A military source was quoted by the state news agency SANA as saying, “A military bus in Damascus countryside was targeted this morning by a terrorist detonation […]
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IRIS-T SLM Air Defense System (FILE PHOTO) Thu 13 October 2022: As Russia continues to pound Ukrainian cities with missiles in the aftermath of the Kerch bridge explosion, France and UK has said it will deliver radar and air defence systems to Ukraine in the coming weeks. According to reports, French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron […]
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Thu 13 October 2022: Petitions challenging the Karnataka hijab ban led to a split verdict in the Supreme Court today. Justice Hemant Gupta dismissed the petitions against the hijab ban, while Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia allowed them. One of the lawyers representing the petitioner said that the matter will be placed before the Chief Justice of […]
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Thu 13 October 2022: Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist, has been ordered to pay $965 million in damages for making false claims that the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012 was a hoax. In the defamation trial in Connecticut, the families of eight victims and an FBI agent who responded to the attack had demanded […]
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Thu 13 October 2022: WWF calls for urgent action as landmark report on wildlife populations shows ‘terrifying’ decline across the world. The world’s wildlife populations have suffered a “devastating” decline in the past 50 years as humans have cleared forests and polluted the air, land and sea, according to World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) latest Living […]
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Wed 12 October 2022: Russia is prepared to supply the European Union with additional natural gas volumes during the fall and winter, President Putin said on Wednesday. One of the two branches of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has survived the recent leak incident and Russia is willing to send gas through it to Europe, […]
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