Wed 21 September 2022: While 151 municipalities are teetering on the brink of collapse, 43 have already collapsed and require urgent intervention to rescue them, National Treasury told Parliament on Wednesday. Senior officials from Treasury painted a bleak picture when they appeared before Parliament’s Standing Committee on Appropriations. Members of Parliament were briefing on local […]
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Wed 21 September 2022 Tehran, Iran – Several Iranian government and state-affiliated media websites are down after a Twitter account linked to the “Anonymous” hacker collective claimed to have launched cyberattacks on them, aimed at supporting protests following the death of Mahsa Amini. The 22-year-old woman from the northwestern province of Kurdistan died in Tehran on […]
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Wed 21 September 2022: Wednesday saw the first Russian mobilization since World War Two, as President Vladimir Putin issued a warning to the West that if it continued its “nuclear blackmail,” Moscow would retaliate with the full force of its vast arsenal. “If the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we use all available means to […]
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Wed 21 September 2022: More than 200 NGOs issued a dire warning on Tuesday, estimating that one person dies of hunger every four seconds, and urging swift international action to “end the spiraling global hunger crisis.” 238 organizations from 75 countries, including Oxfam, Save the Children, and Plan International, expressed outrage over the rising rates […]
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Tue 20 September 2022: On Tuesday, Russian lawmakers approved legislation that will make soldiers who desert or surrender in battle subject to harsher punishments. Under the amendments endorsed by the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament, there will be a 10-year prison sentence for desertion, failure to report for military service, and surrender. […]
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Tue 20 September 2022: Tuesday saw the bodies of 95 more Armenian soldiers who were killed in border clashes that Azerbaijan claims the Armenian army “provocation” to start, Anadolu Agency reported. According to a written statement by the State Commission for Prisoners of War, Hostages, and Missing Persons of Azerbaijan, the bodies were transferred to […]
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Tue 20 September 2022: An aide to Iran’s Supreme Leader paid condolences to the family of a woman whose death in police custody has sparked days of protests and promised their rights would not be ignored, Iranian media said on Tuesday, in an apparent effort to defuse tensions, Reuters reports. Mahsa Amini, 22, from Iran’s Kurdistan province, fell […]
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Tue 20 September 2022: Britain’s culture minister Michelle Donelan, said on Tuesday that 250,000 mourners filed past Queen Elizabeth’s coffin at Westminster Hall in London during her lying-in-state, Reuters reported. “It’s approximately around the 250,000 mark. We’re just crunching those final numbers,” Donelan told Times radio. The full figures would be released in due course, […]
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Tue 20 September 2022: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan has stated that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is seeking an end to the war he started in Ukraine, and that a “significant step” will be taken. He said his impression from recent talks with Vladimir Putin was that he wanted to “end this as soon as […]
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Tue 20 September 2022: Ramallah, occupied West Bank – A Palestinian man has been killed during ongoing clashes between Palestinian fighters and Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Nablus. Local media identified the man as 53-year-old Firas Yaeesh. His death was announced at dawn on Tuesday. Witnesses, as well as […]
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