Nigeria’s hydrological services agency has warned of potential flooding in 11 states after neighbouring Cameroon said it was starting to release water from one of its largest dams following recent heavy rainfall in West and Central Africa. The warning comes as Nigeria is already grappling with severe floods in northeastern Borno state where a dam […]
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8 former security personnel to face trial for 2004 Tak Bai crackdown leading to protesters’ death. Thai authorities announced on Wednesday that they will prosecute 8 former security personnel involved in the Tak Bai crackdown two decades ago, where 78 protesters were killed. A spokesperson for Office of the Attorney General, Prayut Phetcharakhun, stated that
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A primary student was stabbed and wounded Wednesday near Japanese educational facilities in China, in the latest of a string of knife attacks targeting foreigners. “A 10-year-old student of a Japanese school in Shenzhen was stabbed by a man about 200 meters from the school gate,” said Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian. Jian added
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Kyiv, Ukraine — Ukrainian drones struck a large military depot in a town deep inside Russia overnight, causing a huge blaze and prompting the evacuation of some local residents, a Ukrainian official and Russian news reports said Wednesday. The strike came after a senior U.S. diplomat said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s recently announced but still confidential
UN member states debated Tuesday a push by the Palestinians to formally demand an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories within 12 months. The text, which has faced fierce criticism from Israel, is based around an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice calling Israel’s occupation since 1967 “unlawful.” “Israel is under an obligation to
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Beirut, Lebanon: Hezbollah vowed on Wednesday to punish Israel for a deadly attack in which hundreds of paging devices used by the militant group’s members exploded almost simultaneously across Lebanon. There was no immediate comment from Israel on the wave of explosions that killed nine people, including the 10-year-old daughter of a Hezbollah member, and
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A Taiwanese manufacturing firm has been thrust into what has become a global paper trial over how pagers used by Lebanese group Hezbollah exploded in a major espionage attack on Tuesday, which has been widely blamed on Israel. Gold Apollo in New Taipei had its office raided by police on Wednesday, with its director facing international media questions, after it was
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AMMAN: Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Wednesday swore in a new government led by Jaafar Hassan as prime minister and minister of defense, state news agency PETRA reported. The reformist government was tasked with accelerating IMF-backed reforms and pushing through political and economic modernisation plans. The reformist government was tasked with accelerating IMF-backed reforms and
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China’s first university in Israel closes, pulls out The first Chinese university established in Israel has shut down after three years, weeks after pausing new enrolments amid Israel’s war on Gaza. The university was a branch of Beijing’s University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), which had received approval from Israel’s Council for Higher Education and was recognised as
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DUBAI: Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan said on Wednesday the dangerous situation in Gaza requires all parties to double their efforts to deal with the latest developments. Prince Faisal made the remarks as he attended an Arab-Islamic ministerial committee meeting in Jordan focused on halting the conflict in Gaza. Meanwhile, Jordan’s foreign minister said Israel is pushing the whole
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