Fri 10 June 2022: According to figures released on Friday, the number of Syrians who became naturalized German citizens was three times more in 2021 than the previous year, as many of those who left between 2014 and 2016 met eligibility criteria. The number of foreigners who become naturalized Germans increased by 20% in 2021, […]
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Fri 10 June 2022: At a news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who is visiting the Western Balkans, Prime Minister Albin Kurti indicated that Kosovo will submit an official application to join the European Union before the end of the year. “We still aspire to the status of EU candidate and we plan to […]
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Fri 10 June 2022: Thousands of Muslims in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan rally over derogatory remarks about the Prophet Muhammad by two officials from India’s ruling party. Thousands of Muslims have rallied across the South Asia nations of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan over derogatory remarks on Prophet Muhammad by two officials from India’s ruling party […]
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Fri 10 June 2022: The United Nations said Friday it was concerned about the death sentences handed by pro-Moscow separatists to two British and one Moroccan soldier captured by Russian troops while fighting for Ukraine. “The UN Human Rights Office is concerned about the so-called Supreme Court of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic sentencing three […]
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Fri 10 June 2022: President Cyril Ramaphosa says he and government are committed to accounting to the people of South Africa and addressing challenges that the country is facing. He was speaking during a reply to the Presidency’s budget vote in Parliament on Friday. The President has been under some scrutiny amid revelations that there was […]
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Fri 10 June 2022: Africa will face a “very serious” famine situation if wheat exports from Ukraine to the continent do not resume, Senegal’s President Macky Sall, who is also chairman of the African Union, said Thursday. The famine could destabilize the continent, Sall told French media outlets Radio France Internationale and France 24 television. Mentioning his meeting last week with Russian […]
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Fri 10 June 2022: President Putin of Russia, compared himself to Peter the Great, the 18th-century Russian king who led a conquest of the Baltic coast during his battle against Sweden. On Thursday, as the Kremlin’s soldiers continued a grinding war of attrition in eastern Ukraine, Putin also spoke of his country’s need to “take […]
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Fri 10 June 2022: Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Ronald Lamola says the President, as a victim of crime, has a right to be treated fairly by the justice system. The Minister said this when he participated in a debate on the Presidency budget vote during a sitting of the National Assembly on Thursday. “We […]
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Fri 10 June 2022: Saudi Arabia has ruled that Western Muslim pilgrims intending to participate in the annual Hajj pilgrimage must now apply through a government website, abolishing the role of travel agencies in the process. After months of uncertainty amongst aspiring pilgrims in Western countries due to Saudi authorities’ silence on the places allocated […]
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Thu 09 June 2022: According to media reports, a court in a separatist-controlled breakaway region of eastern Ukraine has sentenced two British citizens and one Moroccan national to death for being caught while fighting for the Ukrainian army against Russian forces. The supreme court of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), which is controlled by […]
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