Tue 28 June 2022: Following the deaths of 23 people, the head of the African Union Commission expressed dismay at the “violent and degrading” treatment of African migrants seeking to enter Spain from Morocco and demanded an investigation. On Friday, over 2,000 migrants assaulted the tightly guarded border between the Spanish outpost of Melilla and […]
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Tue 28 June 2022: U.S. President Joe Biden‘s wife and daughter have been banned from Russia, along with 23 other Americans, the Russian foreign ministry said on Tuesday. “As a reaction to the constantly expanding U.S. sanctions against Russian political and public figures, 25 American citizens are added to a ‘stop list,’” the ministry said in a note accompanying the […]
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President Cyril Ramaphosa and other Heads of State/Government from Argentina, India, Indonesia, Senegal and the G7 countries in a group photograph during the G7 Leaders Summit in Schloss Elmau, Bavaria. Tue 28 June 2022: President Cyril Ramaphosa says food, fertiliser and grain shortages caused by the conflict between Ukraine and Russia must motivate Africa to […]
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Tue 28 June 2022: The US military claims to have carried out a raid in Syria’s Idlib province on a top leader of an al-Qaeda-linked group. According to a statement from the US Central Command, the attack on Monday targeted Abu Hamzah al Yemeni, a “senior leader” of Hurras al-Din, an organization affiliated with al-Qaeda, […]
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Tue 28 June 2022: Authorities in San Antonio said that more than 40 migrants were discovered dead inside a big-rig truck’s trailer on Monday. At least 46 individuals, including four children, were reported killed and hospitalized, according to San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood. According to police, both males and females, many of them young […]
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Mon 27 June 2022: The annual World Drug Report from the UN is out, and it provides information regarding cannabis that was pretty much expected. The regular use of cannabis has increased significantly since its non-medical usage became permitted. Covid lockdowns too had a similar effect, with nothing else to do, people turned to the […]
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Mon 27 June 2022: New G7 sanctions on Russia were announced by the United States on Monday, June 27. The Russian defense industry is the subject of these latest sanctions. Slowing down the Russian war machine in Ukraine appears to be the goal. “G7 leaders will align and expand targeted sanctions to further restrict Russia’s […]
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Mon 27 June 2022: Tehran, Iran – Iran’s foreign ministry says Saudi Arabia is ready to hold more direct bilateral talks, one day after the Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi travelled to Tehran to mediate between the two regional rivals. Foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told reporters during a press conference on Monday that Riyadh is […]
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Mon 27 June 2022: Russia has missed the deadline on payment of its foreign-currency sovereign debt for the first time in a century as the 30 day grace period on about $100m of two bond payments due on May 27 expired on Sunday. The deadline is considered an event of default if missed, according to […]
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Sun 26 June 2022: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made light of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s iconic bare-chested images during a G7 meeting in Krün, Germany. On social media sites, the video has gone viral At a G7 lunch on Sunday (June 26), world leaders mocked Putin’s tough-man image […]
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