Fri 16 September 2022: Removing the British monarch as head of state would complete ‘decolonisation process’, Jamaican academic says. The death of Queen Elizabeth II will accelerate the push by former UK colonies to ditch the British crown, experts and advocates have said, amid heightened anti-colonial sentiments in the remaining Commonwealth realms. Despite the collapse of the […]
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Fri 16 September 2022: The United States would cross a “red line” and join the conflict in Ukraine if it decided to give Kiev longer-range missiles, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry. Russia “reserves the right to defend its territory,” said Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the foreign ministry, in a briefing on Thursday. Advanced […]
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Fri 16 September 2022: Syria’s simmering 11-year war is at risk of boiling up, once again, with a return to large-scale combat after several frontlines across the country flared up in recent months, the United Nations warned on Wednesday in a new report, Reuters reports. “Syria cannot afford a return to larger-scale fighting, but that is where […]
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Fri 16 September 2022: Low vaccination rates in Africa make the COVID-19 pandemic still a threat, according to the acting director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). “The virus is still circulating and with the low rates of vaccination, the pandemic is still very much with us here on the […]
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Fri 16 September 2022: President Joe Biden announced in a memo that his administration has approved an additional $600 million in military assistance for Ukraine. “I hereby delegate to the Secretary of State the authority… to direct the drawdown of up to $600 million in defense articles and services of the Department of Defense, and […]
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Fri 16 September 2022: The “Prince of Wales” title is “an insult to Wales and is a symbol of historical oppression,” according to a petition campaign launched on the Change.org platform, and more than 27,000 people have signed it. “Since the days of Llywelyn the Last and the ‘rebel’ Prince of Wales, Owain Glyndwr, the […]
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Thu 15 September 2022: Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, confirmed that Doha cannot replace Russian gas given the fact that it is an important source for the global market, noting that his country will supply Europe with gas. In an interview with France’s Le Point newspaper, Al-Thani said: “We want to help […]
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Thu 15 September 2022: The Russian president’s encounters with the Chinese leader cannot be considered a meeting of equals, analysts say. Few recent meetings had been as highly anticipated as the meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The Russian and Chinese […]
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Thu 15 September 2022: Saudi Arabia is to make use of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to help crowd management and streamline services for pilgrims visiting the kingdom’s two holy cities of Makkah and Madinah. During the second edition of the Global AI Summit in Riyadh, Lieutenant General Mohammed Al-Bassami, the director of public security at […]
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Thu 15 September 2022: Following the death of his mother Elizabeth and the accession of King Charles III, discussions in the UK about the role of the monarchy were reignited. The topic of whether King Charles III will make a good ruler was raised during one of these discussions. There have been a number of […]
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