Fri 18 March 2022: Pope Francis on Friday called the war in Ukraine a “perverse abuse of power” waged for partisan interests, which has condemned defenceless people to brutal violence. Since the war began, the pope has not used the word “Russia” in his condemnations but has used phrases such as “unacceptable armed aggression” to get his point […]
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Fri 18 March 2022: The Opposition’s no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan has divided Islamabad; however, this is not the first time that the premier has faced such a motion. In the March 2021 Senate elections, Yousuf Raza Gilani defeated the government’s candidate former finance advisor Abdul Hafeez Sheikh in the National Assembly for […]
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Fri 18 March 2022: President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for the United Nations Security Council to be overhauled and for its composition to be representative of the global landscape. The President said this when he responded to oral questions before the National Assembly, in Cape Town, on Thursday. He said the fact that Africa, a […]
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Fri 18 March 2022: Ukraine said Friday that the Russian army has recruited nearly a thousand mercenaries from Syria. “The Russian occupiers, which have suffered huge losses during the war, have already recruited mercenaries from the troops under the command of (Syria’s) Bashar al-Assad regime and (Lebanese group) Hezbollah’s so-called army,” the General Staff of […]
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Fri 18 March 2022: Russia’s Defense Ministry accused the US on Thursday of developing infectious diseases in biolabs in Ukraine with the aim of spreading them to Russia disguised as natural outbreaks. The head of the Russian Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Force, Igor Kirillov, presented documents at a press briefing in Moscow that were […]
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Thu 17 March 2022: About 3.2 million people have fled Ukraine, according to data released by the United Nations. While the numbers arriving in the frontline states – Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Moldova – have slowed in recent days, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he expected a “bigger wave” next week. “The war […]
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Thu 17 March 2022: Rescue workers are searching for survivors in the rubble of a theatre in the besieged city of Mariupol after Ukraine said a powerful Russian air strike had hit the building where hundreds of people had been sheltering from the war. The port city is encircled by Russian forces and has faced […]
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Thu 17 March 2022: The Chinese foreign ministry says it firmly rejects US State Secretary Antony Blinken’s comment that China’s unwillingness to condemn Russia is inconsistent with China’s position on the UN charter. China always believes the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states should be upheld, said Zhao Lijian, spokesperson at the Chinese foreign ministry, […]
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Thu 17 March 2022: On Thursday, South Korea recorded a new high of over 600,000 coronavirus cases, with officials claiming the country was nearing the apex of an Omicron-fueled infection wave. South Korea leads the world in newly reported cases in the last seven days, with 2,417,174 infections, followed by Vietnam with 1,776,045 infections, according […]
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Thu 17 March 2022: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson underscored the need for countries to work together “to improve energy security and reduce reliance on Russian hydrocarbons” on Wednesday. Meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh, Johnson “set out the UK’s view that we are facing a fundamentally changed world order following […]
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