Tue 19 July 2022: Britain‘s ex-finance minister Rishi Sunak again topped the latest vote by Conservative MPs to choose a new prime minister. Three contenders were left in the race as another candidate was eliminated with this vote. Sunak, the former chancellor and the frontrunner, won 118 MPs’ votes, just short of the 120 needed to guarantee a […]
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Tue 19 July 2022: In response to the increase in fires that have occurred during a heatwave that has set records throughout Europe and the United Kingdom, London’s firefighting authority has declared a major incident in the British capital. Tuesday saw the deployment of dozens of fire engines by the London Fire Brigade, including 30 […]
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Tue 19 July 2022: Turkish president met Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei and President Raisi in advance of a trilateral summit with Russian President Putin, with Ukraine and Syria on the agenda. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has advised Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan not to launch a new military operation in Syria, in advance […]
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Tue 19 July 2022: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi for talks in Tehran on Tuesday, with bilateral and regional matters the top issues on the agenda. Erdoğan and Raisi will co-chair the 7th Meeting of the Türkiye-Iran High Level Cooperation Council, where all aspects of bilateral ties and potential steps to enhance bilateral […]
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Tue 19 July 2022: Due to the rapid spread of a highly contagious omicron subvariant, coronavirus infections are once again on the rise in South Korea, local media reported on Tuesday. According to Yonhap News Agency, a total of 73,528 new cases were confirmed in the last 24 hours, more than doubling the number from […]
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Tue 19 July 2022: Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) Minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has extended the National State of Disaster to 18 August 2022. In a Government Gazette published on Monday, the Ministry said the extension of the National State of Disaster “owes to the impact of severe weather events which was originally […]
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Tue 19 July 2022: In the midst of tensions over the conflict in Ukraine, the treatment of Muslims who are an ethnic minority in Xinjiang, and an unratified investment agreement, China and the European Union will hold high-level economic and trade negotiations. On Tuesday afternoon, Beijing time, the virtual meeting between economic representatives from the […]
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Mon 18 July 2022: As part of its efforts to wean itself from its reliance on Russian energy, the European Union and Azerbaijan announced a new agreement on Monday that will double the amount of Azeri gas imported. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a Strategic Partnership in the Field of Energy was signed by […]
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Mon 18 July 2022: Russian President Vladimir Putin claims that isolating Russia from the rest of the world is impossible, and that sanctions imposed by Western countries will not halt Russia’s development. Since sending troops into Ukraine on February 24, Russia has faced a barrage of Western sanctions aimed at isolating it from the global […]
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20 foot Nelson Mandela‘s statue in Ramallah, Palestine. Mon 18 July 2022: Millions of people across the world remembered Nelson Mandela, the most revered global statesman, who would have turned 104 years old on Monday. The United Nations, in 2009, designated July 18 as International Nelson Mandela Day to celebrate his birthday and also to […]
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