Thu 22 September 2022: Saudi Arabia and Turkiye have helped to mediate the largest prisoner exchange deal between Russia and Ukraine since Moscow launched its invasion nearly seven months ago. As many as 300 prisoners from ten different countries were released, including citizens of the US, the UK and Morocco. Some had been sentenced to […]
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Thu 22 September 2022: WhatsApp, a service provided by Meta Platforms Inc., announced on Thursday that it was working to keep users in Iran connected after that nation restricted access to both Instagram and the WhatsApp app, Reuters reported. WhatsApp “will do anything” within its technical capacity to keep the service accessible and that it was not […]
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Thu 22 September 2022: Angelina Jolie, a top Hollywood actress and special envoy to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, urged the international community to do more as millions of people are in trouble in the flood-hit areas of Pakistan. During her visit to the National Flood Response Coordination Centre (NFRCC) late Wednesday, Jolie said […]
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Thu 22 September 2022: The South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has hiked the repurchase rate (repo rate) by 75 basis points. The increase means that the repo rate will now be 6.25% per year from 23 September 2022, with prime now at 9.75%. The MPC made the decision during its meeting on […]
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Thu 22 September 2022: British Prime Minister Liz Truss has informed her Israeli counterpart, Yair Lapid, that she is reviewing relocating the British embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Truss discussed the possible move with Lapid during a meeting at the UN summit in New York yesterday. Taking to Twitter, Lapid said that the pair “discussed […]
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Thu 22 September 2022: Optus, Australia’s second-largest telecom, has disclosed that customers’ personal data may have been compromised in a cyberattack against the company. Optus said on Thursday that it was investigating the possible unauthorised access of customer information, including names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, and driver’s licence and passport numbers. […]
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Thu 22 September 2022: According to residents and internet watchdog NetBlocks, Iran has restricted access to social media networks Instagram and WhatsApp in response to protests over the death of a woman in police custody. Significant internet outages were also reported across the country, with one of the country’s largest mobile phone operators being knocked […]
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Thu 22 September 2022: While the COVID-19 pandemic and East European war have severe global consequences, Minister Naledi Pandor says the world should not neglect the needs of the marginalised. “Our greatest global challenges are poverty, inequality, joblessness and feeling excluded,” the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) Minister said on Wednesday. Pandor was […]
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Thu 22 September 2022: More than 1,400 people have been arrested at demonstrations across Russia against President Vladimir Putin’s announcement of a partial mobilisation of civilians to fight in Ukraine, a police monitoring group said Wednesday. The OVD-Info monitoring group counted at least 1,400 people detained at rallies in 38 different cities across the country after Putin’s morning address […]
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Wed 21 September 2022: According to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats on Wednesday have significantly increased the risk of nuclear conflict. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization lambasted Putin for implying nuclear action during the invasion of Ukraine. “Nuclear threats are unacceptable at any time, by anyone,” ICAN […]
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