Wed 04 May 2022: Israel is holding about 600 Palestinian detainees without charge or trial, the highest number since 2016, an Israeli rights group said. HaMoked, an Israeli rights group that regularly gathers figures from prison authorities, said on Monday that as of May there were 604 detainees held in administrative detention. Nearly all are […]
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Wed 04 May 2022: The Jewish ancestry of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy does not preclude Ukraine being ruled by neo-Nazis, according to Russia’s Foreign Ministry. In response to Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid’s statements, the ministry stated that Lapid’s belief that Zelenskyy could not be a Nazi because of his Jewish ancestry has been proven […]
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Wed 04 May 2022: The Kremlin denied Russia was storming the Azovstal steel plant after Ukraine claimed Russian forces had launched a powerful assault on the plant. “There is no storming,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, adding, “The order was publicly given by the supreme commander-in-chief to call off the assault.” The Russian army has […]
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Wed 04 May 2022: Nearly 700 families have left Sinjar in northern Iraq following Monday’s clashes between the Iraqi army and a PKK-affiliated militia called Sinjar Resistance Units, Iraqi Kurdish authorities said on Tuesday, reports Anadolu Agency. The families fleeing the Sinjar district arrived at various safe zones across the region, according to Interior Ministry officials […]
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Wed 04 May 2022: Reconstruction projects aimed at rebuilding are currently underway in parts of KwaZulu-Natal following the devastating floods that damaged infrastructure and roads across the province. Addressing the media on the response to the floods on Tuesday, KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala said that the construction of Residential Temporary Units has started. “Constructors are […]
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Wed 04 May 2022: A pair of new omicron subvariants has emerged, raising the possibility that survivors of earlier omicron strains can get reinfected. BA.4 and BA.5 have gained increasing attention in South Africa as weekly coronavirus cases tripled in the last two weeks, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. “It really came out of the blue over the weekend. We were […]
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Wed 04 May 2022: In the sixth package of sanctions hitting Russia for its war in Ukraine, the European Union’s leader called on the 27-nation union to block oil imports from Russia. Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, and two other significant banks would be cut off from the SWIFT international banking payment system, according to European […]
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Wed 04 May 2022: A spokeswoman for Russia‘s foreign ministry on Wednesday claimed Israeli mercenaries were fighting alongside the far-right Azov Regiment in Ukraine, further fuelling tensions with Israel after Russia suggested Adolf Hitler had “Jewish blood”. “Israeli mercenaries are practically shoulder to shoulder with Azov militants in Ukraine,” Maria Zakharova told pro-Kremlin Sputnik radio in an interview. Azov rose to prominence in 2014, […]
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Tue 03 May 2022: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday said that his country would support Sweden and Finland, if the two countries decided to join NATO. “We are following the debate in both countries very closely about possible accession to our defense alliance, NATO,” Scholz said in a press statement during his meeting with […]
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Tue 03 May 2022: The European Union warned member states Monday to prepare for a possible complete breakdown in gas supplies from Russia, insisting it would not cede to Moscow’s demand that imports be paid for in rubles. The European Commission will on Tuesday propose to member states a new package of sanctions to punish […]
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