Wed 02 March 2022: Two years after deadly riots shook the Indian capital, Muslim victims of the upheaval and their families say they still await justice. The worst communal riots in decades erupted when then-US President Donald Trump arrived in New Delhi on Feb. 23. The riots lasted until Feb. 27, resulting in the deaths […]
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Wed 02 March 2022: A First Nation group in Canada announced on Tuesday that it has discovered 169 possible graves at the former Grouard Mission, a residential school known for horrific abuses of students. Officials from the Kapawe’no First Nation claimed at a press conference Tuesday that the graves were discovered using ground penetrating radar […]
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Wed 02 March 2022: The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, expressed dismay Tuesday over reports that foreigners fleeing Ukraine amid its war with Russia are experiencing mistreatment and pleaded for more humanity and compassion for non-Europeans and refugees from other nations. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi told journalists that 677,000 people had fled […]
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Russian bank run under way. Long queues of people trying to get their money out. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Wed 02 March 2022: Russian residents are no longer allowed to leave the country with more than the equivalent of $10,000 as the Kremlin tries to keep capital inside the country. The rule affects movement of foreign currency too […]
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Tue 01 March 2022: Mineral Resources and Energy Minister, Gwede Mantashe, says the current conflict between Ukraine and Russia poses a danger to ailing African economies. The Minister was speaking at the Africa Energy Indaba on Tuesday. “The present situation regarding Ukraine, that pits the Russian Federation against the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation [NATO] and […]
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Tue 01 March 2022: Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday that 85% of his country’s residents will always support Russia whatever may happen. “That is why our position is so difficult: Serbia has embarked on the European path, Serbia has always supported Ukraine’s integrity, but on the other hand, some eighty-five percent of people […]
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Tue 01 March 2022: Russia’s foreign minister has claimed Kyiv has been seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, telling a Geneva disarmament meeting that this is a real danger that Moscow needed to prevent. “Ukraine still has Soviet technologies and the means of delivery of such weapons,” Sergey Lavrov told the Conference on Disarmament in a […]
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Tue 01 March 2022: As South Africa prepares to host its 4th Investment Conference later this month, Minister Ebrahim Patel has hailed this key event as a boon to the country’s target of netting R1.2 trillion in investment. “President Cyril Ramaphosa in 2018 committed to raising over R1.2 trillion worth of investments over a five-year […]
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Tue 01 March 2022: The UN Security Council (UNSC) has imposed an arms embargo on all Houthi rebels, as the Yemeni group confronts heightened international pressure following a series of recent attacks on Gulf countries. The resolution, introduced by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and passed with 11 votes in favor and four abstentions on […]
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Tue 01 March 2022: Ukraine on Monday said it had received donated Starlink satellite internet terminals from SpaceX, but an internet security researcher warned these could become Russian targets. A shipment of SpaceX’s Starlink user terminals arrived in Ukraine on Monday, providing Ukrainians access to the satellite Internet network as traditional service faces interruptions from […]
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