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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ukraine’s Odessa sees Iranian drones again in its air space
BSS :Ukraine said on Sunday that the southern port city of Odessa saw Iranian-made drones overnight in its air space, two days after a Russian...