Fri 19 August 2022: The U.S. voiced concern Thursday about Israel’s closure of several Palestinian non-governmental organizations in the occupied West Bank. “We are concerned about the Israeli security forces‘ closure of the six offices of the Palestinian NGOs in and around Ramallah today,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters. “We have reached out to the Israeli government, including at senior levels, […]
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Fri 19 August 2022: In statements to Bloomberg News on Thursday, Indonesian President Joko Widodo invited the manufacturer of electric vehicles (EVs), Tesla, to produce both its automobiles and batteries there, Reuters reported. The president, known as Jokowi, stated in an interview that Indonesia wants to create a “huge ecosystem of electric cars” as opposed […]
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Fri 19 August 2022: Known as Kadyrovtsy after their leader Ramzan Kadyrov, the fighters are said to be brutal but delusional about their abilities. Bucha, Ukraine – Most of the Russian servicemen sitting in and atop 34 armed personnel carriers that rolled into Bucha on February 27 were ethnic Chechens, according to Ukrainian military leaders and […]
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Fri 19 August 2022: EU-mediated “crisis management” talks Thursday between Serbia and Kosovo failed to quell rising tensions, but further dialogue will be held “in the coming days,” the bloc’s diplomatic chief said. “Unhappily, we did not get to an agreement today… But it is not the end of the story,” EU High Representative Josep Borrell said in a brief […]
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Thu 18 August 2022: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said during his visit to Lviv that the war will eventually end at negotiating table. He added that the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky and UN chief Antonio Guterres echo this view also. Speaking after the trilateral meeting with the Ukrainian leader and UN chief in Lviv, he said that the main topic was the Ukraine-Russia war during […]
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Workers remove a Soviet T-34 tank installed as a monument in Narva, Estonia, on August 16. Thu 18 August 2022: Estonia claimed on Thursday that it had stopped “the most extensive cyber attack since 2007” shortly after demolishing Soviet monuments in a region with a sizable Russian ethnic population. More than 200 public and private […]
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Thu 18 August 2022: The forest fires raging in northern Algeria have claimed the lives of at least 38 people and injured several others. a mother and daughter were killed in Setif, according to Kamel Beldjoud, the interior minister of the nation. Most of those killed occurred in El Tarf, close to the Tunisian border. […]
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Thu 18 August 2022: Cybersecurity firm says Amnesty International and Taiwan’s ruling party among organisations targeted in campaign. Taipei, Taiwan – A hacking group suspected of acting on behalf of the Chinese government has carried out a multi-year espionage campaign against numerous governments, NGOs, think-tanks and news agencies, according to a new report. The group, known […]
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Thu 18 August 2022: Bilkis Bano, who was gang-raped and witnessed the murder of 14 members of her family by a Hindu mob during the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in the western Indian state of Gujarat, is back in the news. On Monday, 11 inmates who were serving life terms for the case’s rape and murder […]
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Thu 18 August 2022: The United States will take steps in the coming weeks and months to counter China’s military and economic activity around Taiwan, State Department spokesman Ned price said on Wednesday. “We will continue to take steps that are resolute but also calm to uphold peace and stability in the face of Beijing’s […]
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