Views: 4 Geneva, Switzerland Former Uganda Minister for Ethics and Integrity Fr Simon Lokodo is dead, the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) has confirmed. Unconfirmed reports indicate that Fr Simon Lokodo, a member of the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) collapsed on Thursday 27th before he was rushed to ICU, where he succumbed to COVID-19 […]
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Views: 5 WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has gone into self-isolation until Tuesday after being deemed a close contact of a person who tested positive for COVID-19, the government said. © Reuters/PRAVEEN MENON Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addresses her supporters at a Labour Party event in Wellington The exposure took place on
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Views: 0 Russia has expanded a list of EU officials prohibited from entering the country amid worsening tensions over Ukraine. The move comes as “reciprocation” for restrictive measures Brussels put on Moscow.Russia has added a number of European Union officials to a list of people barred from entering the country as a tit-for-tat response to
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Views: 3 A military court in Democratic Republic of Congo Saturday is set to pronounce a long-awaited verdict in a mass trial over the 2017 murder of two UN experts in a troubled central region. © BERTIL ERICSON UN experts Zaida Catalan and Michael Sharp were killed in Kasai, DR Congo while investigating mass gravesDozens of
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Views: 2 A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck about 219km (136.1miles) west-northwest of Pangai, Tonga, on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The earthquake was at a depth of 14.5km. The USGS has issued a green alert for shaking-related fatalities and economic losses, however, there is a low likelihood of damage since there
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Views: 0 The International Olympic Committee said on Thursday that it has spoken with Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai again and plans to meet her in Beijing during next month’s Winter Games. Peng, a former world number one in doubles, has been the subject of worldwide concern since alleging in November that she had been
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Views: 1 The emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani is expected to tell the US president, Joe Biden, that his country will provide some short-term emergency liquid gas to help replace any loss of supplies if Russia cuts off supplies to Germany. Qatar is looking to supply Europe through transferring excess supplies in
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Views: 2 One of MTN Uganda’s I.T Data centers (File Photo) MTN Uganda has emerged the best Performing Network following country-wide network tests conducted by Rohde & Schwarz, using an ETSI scoring method based on ITU-T and ETSI standards. Â MTN Uganda registered the highest points in both its data and voice services ahead of
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Views: 2 Gianni Infantino, the president of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), sparked outrage on Wednesday after he claimed that hosting a World Cup every two years could help save African migrants from “death in the sea.” Speaking to a group of European politicians regarding his future plans for FIFA—the world’s highest governing
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Views: 4 The US has delivered its formal response to Russian demands that Nato bar Ukraine from the international alliance and pull back its forces from Eastern Europe. A the same time, administration officials are considering additional measures, including sanctions, as diplomatic conversations persist. © APSecretary of State Antony Blinken speaks about Russia and Ukraine
