Wed 29 June 2022: Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, told members of his Yamina party that he will not be running in the upcoming election, a statement from his spokesperson said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. The statement, which came ahead of a Knesset vote to dissolve parliament and prepare for new elections, said Bennett would retain his […]
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Wed 29 June 2022: On the eve of the NATO Summit in Madrid, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan and US President Joe Biden had a meeting. In addition to thanking Erdoan for his support in securing Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership, Biden praised him for his efforts to get the grain out of Ukraine. Erdoğan, […]
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Wed 29 June 2022: Russia blasted the expulsion of 70 Russian diplomats from Bulgaria on Wednesday, saying it was done at the request of external forces. “These external forces under false claims try to pit European states with Russia, cynically manipulate dependent governments and politicians, destroy everything that has been created on the European continent […]
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Wed 29 June 2022: The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) head Brendan Carr has written to Apple and Google requesting them to remove Chinese short-video making platform TikTok from their respective app stores for “its pattern of surreptitious data practices.” Apple and Google have until July 8 to respond to the FCC commissioner’s request to […]
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Wed 29 June 2022: Pope Francis on Wednesday called the bombing of a crowded shopping centre in the city of Kremenchuk the latest in string of “barbarous attacks” against Ukraine. Ukraine said at least 18 people were killed and about 60 injured on Monday by a Russian missile strike. Russia’s defence ministry said it had […]
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Wed 29 June 2022: Prominent Indian Muslim organizations, and leaders on Wednesday called the murder of a Hindu man in India’s Rajasthan state on Tuesday a “disgrace to humanity and an act of defaming Islam.” Reacting to a video posted on social media by two men claiming that they avenged an insult to Islam, Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind, a leading Muslim organization, said […]
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Wed 29 June 2022: The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has confirmed the country’s second case of Monkeypox. The latest case was identified through laboratory testing. In a statement, the NICD said the case involves a 32-year-old male residing in the Western Cape. “He reports no recent travel history. Contact tracing has commenced in […]
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Wed 29 June 2022: After the three countries pledged to defend each other’s security, NATO ally Turkey removed its veto on Finland and Sweden’s application to join the Western alliance, putting an end to a drama that lasted weeks and tested allied cohesion in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The breakthrough came on […]
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Tue 28 June 2022: On Tuesday, Dmitry Peskov, a spokesperson for the Kremlin, criticized NATO’s plans to boost the number of high-readiness soldiers in Europe to more than 300,000. “NATO is an aggressive bloc, this is a bloc that was created for purposes of confrontation and it continues to demonstrate its nature and to implement its, set by default, […]
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Tue 28 June 2022: On Wednesday, China accused the US of engaging in “dangerous and provocative” activities in the region, Anadolu Agency reported. “The United States has frequently sent ships and aircraft to conduct close-in reconnaissance of China for a long time, which has seriously endangered China’s national defense and security,” said Wang Wenbin, the spokesperson for […]
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