US announces $1.1b in new arms aid for Ukraine
BSS :The United States announced on Wednesday a new package of arms and supplies for Ukraine worth $1.1 billion for reinforcing Kyiv’s forces over the medium and long term. The package of orders for...
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Innovation at a crossroads after pandemic: UN
BSS :Funding for innovation swelled during the Covid-19 pandemic, with significant growth in developing countries, the UN said on Thursday, warning though that the current geopolitical turmoil was threatening the advances.In a fresh report,...
11 soldiers killed, 50 missing after militant attack, Burkina Faso says
BSS :Eleven soldiers died and around 50 civilians were missing after a suspected militant attack in Burkina Faso’s north, the government said late Tuesday.Violence has raged in the landlocked West African country after Lieutenant-Colonel...
Iran police to oppose protests with ‘all their might’
BSS :Iran’s police command warned on Wednesday that the force would come down hard on protests that erupted nearly two weeks ago over the death of a young woman in custody.Dozens of people have...
At least 22 killed in Congo in two Uganda helicopter crashes, Congo army says
Reuters :GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sept 28 (Reuters) – At least 22 people were killed when two Ugandan military helicopters crashed in east Democratic Republic of Congo, a Congo army spokesman who asked...
EIIR to CIIIR: royals reveal Charles’s new cypher
BSS/AFP :Buckingham Palace on Monday revealed King Charles III’s new royal cypher — the monogram of his initials that will feature on government buildings, state documents and new post boxes.His late mother Queen Elizabeth...
UN General Assembly concludes general debate
BSS :This year’s general debate of the UN General Assembly concluded on Monday, after representatives of 190 member states spoke around the theme of “A watershed moment: transformative solutions to interlocking challenges.” Csaba Korosi, President...
Cuba, Florida brace for Hurricane Ian
BSS :Cuba declared an emergency alert in multiple provinces Monday as fast-approaching Hurricane Ian strengthened rapidly, with Florida also ramping up preparations ahead of a likely hit.Some 50,000 people in Cuba’s western Pinar del...
100 dead in Lebanon migrant shipwreck off Syria: new toll
BSS :Syrian authorities have recovered 100 bodies from a Lebanese migrant boat that sank in the sea last week, state media reported about one of the deadliest recent shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean.The first...
Cholera death toll rises to 29 in Syria as outbreak spreads
Al Jazeera :At least 29 people have been killed due to a cholera outbreak in several regions of Syria, in what the United Nations has called the worst outbreak in the war-torn country for...
Poverty pushes Afghan children to work at brick kilns
Al Jazeera :Nabila works 10 hours or more a day, doing the heavy, dirty labour of packing mud into moulds and hauling wheelbarrows full of bricks. At 12 years old, she has been working...
Lebanon migrant ship death toll rises to 94
BSS :Seventeen bodies were recovered on Saturday after a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sank off Syria’s coast, raising the overall toll to 94, Syrian state television said, in one of the eastern Mediterranean’s...