Sun 10 July 2022: The anti-government protesters in Sri Lanka on Sunday continued to occupy the residences of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Wickremesinghe, a day after they barged into the premises and set on fire one of the buildings protesting over the nation’s severe economic crisis even as the island nation is still […]
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Sun 10 July 2022: A spike in inflation rates has pushed 71 million people into poverty in developing nations since March 2022, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) alerts in a report released Thursday. With soaring inflation, interest rates are likely to rise, causing further recession-induced poverty to exacerbate the crisis, accelerating and deepening poverty worldwide. […]
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Sun 10 July 2022: On Saturday, US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden marked Eid al-Adha, also known as the Feast of Sacrifice, and they wished Muslims around the world a “joyous holiday.” “Jill and I send our warmest greetings to Muslims across the United States and around the world celebrating Eid al-Adha,” Biden said in a statement. […]
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Sun 10 July 2022: In a mass shooting that took place in a pub in the Soweto neighborhood of Johannesburg, at least 15 people were killed. Gauteng Police Commissioner Elias Mawela said masked men entered the liquor outlet in Nomzamo park in Orlando East. They opened fire on patrons using high-calibre weapons. “We were called in the early […]
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Sat 09 July 2022: After protestors seized the president’s official mansion and office in the capital, Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe made an offer to resign. According to a statement from the prime minister’s office, he informed the speaker of the house that he was prepared to resign so that an all-party administration could […]
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Sat 09 July 2022: On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy dismissed a number of high-ranking foreign envoys, including Kyiv’s ambassador to Germany, according to the presidential website, Reuters reported. He announced the removal of Ukraine’s ambassadors to Germany, India, the Czech Republic, Norway, and Hungary in a decree that provided no explanation for the action. […]
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Sat 09 July 2022: The federal government has declared inmates who escaped from Kuje prison in Abuja wanted. Nearly 70 Boko Haram and Islamic State in West Africa (ISWAP) terrorists, were among the almost 1,000 inmates who escaped during a terror attack at a major prison in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, a top official said Friday. Police […]
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Sat 09 July 2022: According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), more than 2.93 million Ethiopian children are still out of school due to a combination of violence and drought. According to the current Ethiopia Situation Report, 2.53 million students are absent from school due to violence, while 401,000 […]
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Sat 09 July 2022: In one of the largest anti-government marches in the crisis-ridden nation this year, thousands of protestors in Sri Lanka burst through police barricades and attacked the president’s mansion and office. “The president was escorted to safety,” the source said, adding that troops fired in the air to prevent angry crowds from […]
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Sat 09 July 2022: Elon Musk has announced the cancellation of a $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter, claiming that the social media business failed to share information on fraudulent or spam accounts on the platform. Musk’s lawyers stated in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday that Twitter has neglected […]
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