Sun 08 May 2022: At least 60 people are missing and feared dead in the debris of a burned-out school after a Russian air raid in eastern Ukraine. The governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai, said on Sunday that two people were confirmed dead after Russian forces dropped a bomb on the school, and […]
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Sun 08 May 2022: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has held meetings with Iran’s supreme leader and the country’s president during a surprise visit to Tehran, a key military backer of the Syrian regime. Assad met with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Ebrahim Raisi after making an unannounced visit to the Iranian capital on […]
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Sun 08 May 2022: The Pakistani government has rejected the World Health Organization’s (WHO) report on number of COVID-19 deaths in the country, questioning the United Nations body’s methodology to collect data and supposing an error in the software used to collate the numbers. In a recent report, the WHO estimated there were 260,000 COVID-19 […]
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Sun 08 May 2022: An electoral committee of over 1,500 mostly pro-Beijing members elected John Lee as Hong Kong’s next leader on Sunday. In the election for chief executive, Lee received 1,416 votes, greatly above the required 751 votes. Over 97 percent of the members of the Election Committee voted in a secret ballot on […]
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Sun 08 May 2022: Saudi Arabia‘s King Salman bin Abdulaziz was admitted to hospital on Saturday in the Red Sea city of Jeddah to undergo medical tests, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported on Sunday, citing a statement from the royal court. He is undergoing the tests in the King Faisal Specialist Hospital, the statement said, giving no other details. King Salman, […]
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Sun 08 May 2022: President Volodymyr Zelensky is also set to hold talks with G7 leaders via video conference to discuss the situation in his country, which fears a renewed intensity to Moscow’s offensive after the evacuation of civilians from Mariupol’s Azovstal steelworks. The complex — the final pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the devastated […]
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Muslims all across Ethiopia demonstrated in solidarity with the victims of anti-Muslim attacks in Gonder. Sat 07 May 2022: The UN human rights chief has voiced alarm at recent deadly clashes between Muslims and Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia and called on authorities to investigate and bring perpetrators to justice. United Nations High Commissioner for Human […]
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Sat 07 May 2022: The United Nations on Saturday called for the adoption of a more strategic approach to address the Palestinian economic and fiscal crisis. The call came in a report issued by the office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO), Tor Wennesland, ahead of an upcoming […]
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Sat 07 May 2022: A Florida pension fund has filed a lawsuit against Tesla CEO Elon Musk to block the billionaire from buying Twitter. Musk is violating Delaware law, according to the pension fund, because he has additional obligations to Tesla’s stockholders. However, Musk has reached deals with Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and Morgan Stanley, […]
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Sat 07 May 2022: On Saturday, Russia’s top legislator accused the US of coordinating military actions in Ukraine, which he claimed amounted to direct US military action against Russia. “Washington is essentially coordinating and developing military operations, thereby directly participating in military actions against our country,” Vyacheslav Volodin wrote on his Telegram channel. Kyiv has received heavy weapons […]
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