Fri 02 September 2022: Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s deposed leader, was given a three-year prison term for election fraud by a military junta court, local media reported on Friday. According to Khit Thit Media, the War on Terrorism Council found her guilty of alleged electoral fraud. A junta court gave the former State Counsellor […]
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Fri 02 September 2022: Pavel Palazhchenko, Gorbachev’s interpreter for decades, says the late Soviet leader was traumatised by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, was shocked and bewildered by the Ukraine conflict in the months before he died and psychologically crushed in recent years by Moscow’s worsening ties with Kyiv, his interpreter has […]
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Fri 02 September 2022: Members of the Uighur diaspora are urging the world to act after the United Nations said China may have committed crimes against humanity in the far-western region of Xinjiang. The long-awaited report (PDF) by the outgoing UN Human Rights Commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, was published late on Wednesday, just minutes before the end of […]
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Thu 01 September 2022: The United States on Thursday welcomed a report by the United Nations that said China may have committed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. “This report deepens and reaffirms our grave concern regarding the ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity that PRC government authorities are perpetrating against Uyghurs,” Blinken said in a statement while calling for Beijing to be […]
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Thu 01 September 2022: Clashes among rival Shia Muslim militants in the Iraqi city of Basra have killed at least four people, security officials said on Thursday, as violence from a worsening political crisis hit the south of the country, Reuters reports. The unrest began with two days of intense street fighting in Baghdad earlier in […]
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Thu 01 September 2022: In the biggest development since the microblogging site became widely regarded as a tool for exchanging information, including by governments, Twitter has provided the ability to modify tweets. The edit button will be available to Twitter Blue subscribers in the coming weeks, according to the social media company. if you […]
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Thu 01 September 2022: South Africa intends to enhance the teaching of robotics and coding in public schools through the establishment of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute. Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said the AI Institute is being established in partnership with institutions of higher learning, in particular the Johannesburg Business School […]
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Thu 01 September 2022: A United Nations nuclear agency team has arrived at the site of Europe’s largest nuclear plant to evaluate security circumstances, according to the agency and Ukraine’s nuclear energy operator on Thursday, amid fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces that forced the shutdown of one reactor. The International Atomic Energy Agency team, […]
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Ravil Maganov, chairman of Lukoil, with Russian president Vladimir Putin (left). Thu 01 September 2022: Chairman of Russia’s second-largest oil producer Lukoil, Ravil Maganov, died on Thursday after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, according to Russian media reports. No immediate comment was available from Lukoil. The hospital, known as the Kremlin Clinic for […]
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Thu 01 September 2022: A court in Kuala Lumpur finds Rosmah Mansor guilty of seeking and receiving bribes in connection to a multi-million dollar solar power project. A court in Kuala Lumpur has found Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, guilty of seeking and receiving bribes in exchange for a […]
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