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What Happened on Day 86 of the War in Ukraine
Saturday, 21. May 2022 07:50 o'clock
Russia moved to expand military recruitment to older citizens and said that it was suspending gas shipments to Finland. -
As China Doubles Down on Lockdowns, Some Chinese Seek an Exit
Friday, 20. May 2022 11:00 o'clock
Inquiries to immigration consultants have surged; social media users trade tips on how to get abroad. But the government aims to “strictly restrict nonessential exit activities.” -
Australia’s Election: What to Watch and What’s at Stake
Saturday, 21. May 2022 05:37 o'clock
While voters are most focused on cost-of-living issues, the opposition Labor Party has made the election a referendum on the conduct of Prime Minister Scott Morrison. -
Forced From Kharkiv, Russian Troops Regroup and Dig In
Saturday, 21. May 2022 01:22 o'clock
Outside of Kharkiv, Russian forces are entrenching themselves for the long haul. “There is a whole underground city there,” a Ukrainian officer said. -
In Pictures: Sri Lanka’s Protesters Remain Defiant
Friday, 20. May 2022 14:06 o'clock
As the pain of an economic crisis deepens, a nation’s anger and desperation are visible. -
U.S. Company Supplying Russian Military Seeks Exit, Caught Between Sanctions and Kremlin
Saturday, 21. May 2022 01:00 o'clock
Arconic runs a huge Russian metal plant, bought in an era of cooperation between the U.S. and Russia. Now it is struggling, after years of increasing Russian military aggression.
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Mozambique confirms first wild poliovirus case in 30 years
Thursday, 19. May 2022 15:54 o'clock
Case in child in Tete province follows detection of similar strain in Malawi in February, officials say
Mozambique has identified its first case of wild polio in three decades following the genetic sequencing of a similar strain of the childhood disease in Malawi earlier this year.
Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization’s regional director for Africa, said the detection of the new case was “greatly concerning” and that it demonstrated “how dangerous this virus is and how quickly it can spread”.
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Widow of man killed in Libya accuses South Africa of ‘silence’ in hunt for his body
Thursday, 19. May 2022 14:11 o'clock
The South African government sent Anton Hammerl’s passport to his widow in 2016 but has refused to say how it came to have it
The widow of a British-based photographer who was murdered by Col Gaddafi’s forces in Libya in 2011 has accused South Africa of withholding crucial information about her husband’s death that could help in efforts to locate his body.
Anton Hammerl was killed in an incident in May 2011 that saw other journalists, including James Foley – who was later kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic State in Syria – taken prisoner.
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‘Huge spike’ in global conflict caused record number of displacements in 2021
Thursday, 19. May 2022 08:00 o'clock
Those fleeing combat were internally displaced 14.4m times, with biggest toll in sub-Saharan Africa, report reveals
Conflict and violence forced people from their homes a record number of times last year, a report has found, with sub-Saharan Africa bearing the brunt of mass internal displacement caused by “huge spikes” in fighting.
People fleeing violence were internally displaced 14.4m times in 2021, an increase of 4.6m on 2020, according to figures published by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
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‘History repeating’: Amazon base in Cape Town splits Indigenous groups
Thursday, 19. May 2022 06:00 o'clock
Building work is quiet, for now, on £200m project that pits different visions of South Africa’s future against one another
Smoke curls into the air, a drum beats, the dance begins, a chant is raised. Ten metres away, cars howl past on a busy road, drivers unaware of the sacred ritual taking place in the centre of a bustling South African city.
Francisco Mackenzie, a chief of the Cochoqua community of the Khoi people, talks of ancient beliefs and battles five centuries ago, against invaders from overseas. He points to the iconic skyline of Table Mountain, and then to a nearby building site.
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UN confirms death of one of last Rwandan genocide fugitives
Wednesday, 18. May 2022 21:01 o'clock
Phénéas Munyarugarama is second person wanted for their involvement in 1994 mass killings to die
One of the last five fugitives wanted for his role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Phénéas Munyarugarama, died in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2002, UN prosecutors have announced.
Munyarugarama, a local army commander, “died of natural causes” and was buried in Kankwala, in the eastern DRC, the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) announced in The Hague.
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‘I thought the UK was a good country’: Sudan massacre refugee faces removal to Rwanda
Wednesday, 18. May 2022 17:37 o'clock
Mohammed is among first asylum seekers to face removal under Home Office’s controversial scheme
It took Mohammed more than three years and a journey of more than 5,000 miles to reach the UK after fleeing a massacre in his village in Sudan.
Now, just over a week after arriving by kayak across the Channel, he is among the first tranche of asylum seekers facing forced removal to Rwanda, on the continent where his journey began.
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Un periodista que viajó a Milán para cubrir el Valencia-Atalanta, positivo por coronavirus
Thursday, 27. February 2020 16:13 o'clock
Se trata del segundo caso confirmado en la comunidad y el decimoquinto en España desde el lunes -
Mapa de la expansión y claves para entender el coronavirus de Wuhan
Sunday, 1. March 2020 14:16 o'clock
Qué es, cómo se transmite, cuál es la población más vulnerable y dimensiones del contagio en el mundo -
El turismo italiano se resiente; España mira expectante
Thursday, 27. February 2020 14:26 o'clock
La patronal hotelera del área de Venecia describe un sector “al borde del colapso” -
“La magnitud del problema del coronavirus no será diferente a una gripe”
Thursday, 27. February 2020 18:26 o'clock
Ángel Gil de Miguel, catedrático de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, lanza un mensaje de tranquilidad -
Seis italianos encerrados por partida doble
Thursday, 27. February 2020 12:36 o'clock
Los compañeros de viaje de los cuatro positivos en Canarias están aislados del resto en el hotel en cuarentena -
Trump nombra al vicepresidente Pence a cargo de la crisis del coronavirus
Thursday, 27. February 2020 18:26 o'clock
El CDC confirma el primer caso de origen desconocido en Northern California. El infectado no ha viajado recientemente al extranjero ni ha tenido contacto con un caso confirmado