Sun 19 June 2022: As Russian soldiers intensified their attack on Ukrainian positions in the east of the country, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg advised Western allies to prepare for the long haul in Ukraine. On Saturday, Johnson and Stoltenberg issued separate warnings, while Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited […]
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Sun 19 June 2022: Floods in Bangladesh has deteriorated because of heavy rain and an onrush of water from the hills and upstream India, affecting millions of people, according to officials. “Till now, 10 districts out of 64 have been hit by the floods across the country,” State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Ministry, […]
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Sun 19 June 2022: Bosnia Herzegovina plays a key role in the region’s stability, and Türkiye will not allow a new conflict, said the Turkish foreign minister on Saturday. Mevlut Çavuşoğlu’s remarks came during a joint news conference with his Bosnian counterpart Jasmina Turkovic in the capital Sarajevo. “Bosnia and Herzegovina is in a key position in terms of regional […]
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Sat 18 June 2022: The Railways cancelled 369 trains on Saturday due to the agitation against the Centre’s recently announced Agnipath scheme for recruitment of soldiers in the armed forces, officials said. These include 210 mail/express and 159 local passenger trains. The Railways has also partially cancelled two mail/express trains, thus the total number of […]
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Sat 18 June 2022: On Saturday, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Lebanon to respect the ruling of a UN-backed court in the 2005 death of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. “The Secretary General’s thoughts are with the victims of the 14 February attack and their families,” his spokesperson Farhan Haq said in a statement. Haq […]
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Sat 18 June 2022: US President Joe Biden took a tumble as he was riding his bicycle Saturday morning, but was unhurt. A video from a White House pool report showed the 79-year-old president immediately getting up after his fall. He then says: “I’m good.” US President Joe Biden falls down off his bike in Delaware, USA pic.twitter.com/oaidg62H0O — […]
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Sat 18 June 2022: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will visit Türkiye on June 22, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Friday, in another step towards reviving strained ties between the two regional powers. In late April, Erdoğan went to Saudi Arabia in what was the first high-level visit in years. It followed a months-long drive to mend relations. Erdoğan […]
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Fri 17 June 2022: According to local media on Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is considering creating a coalition government with opposition leader and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Bennett met with senior political aides, including Aron Shaviv, in the Defense Ministry’s Tel Aviv headquarters late Thursday. According to the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation […]
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Fri 17 June 2022: Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a confrontational speech at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday, claiming that his country’s economy had weathered Western sanctions imposed in response to Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine, Reuters reported. Putin accused the United States of treating other countries as “colonies”, and said gloomy forecasts for the […]
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Fri 17 June 2022: Greece has pushed back nearly 42,000 asylum seekers since 2020, according to a new report published by Turkish authorities. Türkiye’s Ombudsman Institution prepared the report, titled “Pushbacks and Drowning Human Rights in the Aegean Sea,” exposing the violation of international immigration law by Greece. According to the data from the Directorate of Migration Management that the report used, […]
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