Mon 03 October 2022: Libyan authorities have said they have discovered 42 unknown bodies in a mass grave in the northern coastal city of Sirte, Anadolu News Agency reports. The General Authority for Research and Identification of Missing Persons said in a statement on Sunday that it received a notification from the office of the local prosecutor […]
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Mon 03 October 2022: Health Minister, Dr Joe Phaahla, says the shortage of healthcare workers is threatening the quality and sustainability of health systems in Africa and worldwide. “Health care is a fundamental human right. But without health workers, there cannot be health services,” he said on Sunday. The Minister was speaking at an official […]
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Mon 03 October 2022: The latest setback to President Vladimir Putin’s recruitment of 300,000 servicemen is the sending home of thousands of Russians who had been mobilized for military service in Ukraine. The governor of the far eastern Russian region of Khabarovsk, Mikhail Degtyarev, reported that several thousand men had shown up for enlistment in […]
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Mon 03 October 2022: Iranian security forces clashed with students at a prestigious university in Tehran, according to social and state media, in the latest sign of a deadly crackdown on nationwide protests sparked by the death in custody of a young woman. The anti-government demonstrations, which began on September 17 with the funeral of […]
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Mon 03 October 2022: After winning the first round of voting in Brazil’s presidential election, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro in the second round. Left-wing former president Lula came in at 47.97%, while right-wing Bolsonaro received 43.60%, the electoral office announced Sunday. The second-round vote, extending what has been a tense […]
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Mon 03 October 2022: UK Prime Minister Liz Truss has dropped a controversial plan to abolish the top rate of income tax after the proposal angered backbench MPs and sent the British pound to record lows. “We get it, and we have listened,” Truss said in a statement posted on Twitter on Monday. “The abolition […]
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Sun 02 October 2022: Pope Francis said he is haunted by “rivers of blood and tears” and has made a direct appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin to halt the “spiral of violence and death” in Ukraine. In a speech devoted to Ukraine in St. Peter’s Square, the head of the Catholic Church also denounced […]
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Sun 02 October 2022: The US suicide rate rose in 2021, particularly among young men, according to official data out Friday — an increase that ends a two-year-decline. The number of suicides rose from around 46,000 in 2020 to 47,650 in 2021, according to preliminary figures released by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention […]
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Observers are deployed throughout the country to assess the elections. Sun 02 October 2022: Bosnia and Herzegovina citizens head to the polls Sunday to choose lawmakers at the canton, entity, and national levels, as well as the three members of the Presidential Council. More than 5,900 ballot boxes across the country open at 7 a.m. local time (0500GMT) […]
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Sun 02 October 2022: According to British military intelligence, Russia’s forces are believed to have sustained significant losses as they withdrew from Lyman, a strategically significant town in eastern Ukraine. The British Defence Ministry’s daily brief stated on Sunday that the town in the Donetsk region was “likely being defended by undermanned elements of Russia’s […]
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