Sun 03 April 2022: According to Houthi rebels, a fuel tanker docked at the Hudaydah port in western Yemen on Sunday, the first since a UN-brokered cease-fire took effect a day earlier. A vessel carrying mazut, a low-quality fuel, arrived at the Hudaydah port after being held for 88 days, according to Essam al-Motwakel, a […]
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Sun 03 April 2022: The Kremlin has warned the West that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rouble payment scheme for natural gas is the prototype that Russia will extend to other major exports because the West has sealed the decline of the US dollar by freezing Russian assets. “It is the prototype of the system,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russia’s […]
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Sun 03 April 2022: On Sunday, Sri Lanka temporarily blocked access to social media platforms, according to an independent internet monitoring organization and local media outlets. NetBlocks stated that Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and WhatsApp looked to be blocked for people. ⚠️ Confirmed: Real-time network data show Sri Lanka has imposed a nationwide social media […]
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Sun 03 April 2022: The Taliban announced on Sunday a ban on the cultivation of narcotics in Afghanistan, the world’s biggest opium producer. “As per the decree of the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, all Afghans are informed that from now on, cultivation of poppy has been strictly prohibited across the country,” […]
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Sun 03 April 2022: On April 2, China reported 13,287 new Covid cases, the most since February 2020, with the majority in Shanghai and northeastern Jilin province. On Sunday, the national health authority reported 1,506 confirmed Covid cases for the previous day, a decrease from the previous day’s total of 2,129 cases. However, the country […]
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Sun 03 April 2022: In an escalation in bloodshed in the conflict-torn country, Mali’s army claims to have killed 203 militants in an operation in the heart of the Sahel state. The army announced on Friday that a nine-day military operation began on March 23 in the Moura area of the Sahel, which it described […]
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Sun 03 April 2022: Ukrainian forces have buried hundreds of people in a mass grave in a commuter town outside Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, after retaking control of the area from Russian troops, according to an official. “In Bucha, we have already buried 280 people in mass graves,” Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk told the AFP news agency […]
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Sun 03 April 2022: Imran Khan survived a move to oust him as Pakistan’s prime minister, getting a reprieve when the deputy speaker of Parliament blocked a no-confidence motion as unconstitutional. Khan, whose fate was not immediately clear, later advised the country’s president to dissolve Parliament, leading to fresh political instability in the nuclear-armed country […]
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Sat 02 April 2022: Pakistani lawmakers are going to vote on a no-trust motion from the opposition against Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday in the capital Islamabad. An embattled Khan, who time and again, has refused to step down and vowed to contest the no-confidence motion, claims to have a “surprise” in store for […]
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Sat 02 April 2022: Pope Francis came the closest he has yet to implicitly criticizing President Vladimir Putin over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, saying on Saturday a “potentate” was fomenting conflicts for nationalist interests. Moscow says the action it launched on February 24 is a “special military operation” designed not to occupy territory but to […]
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