Amsterdam, Mar. 7, (dpa/GNA) – South Africa has filed an urgent application with the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) to order Israel to allow more humanitarian…
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UN says 2023 was deadliest year for migrants since 2014
Geneva, Mar. 7, (dpa/GNA) – Last year, more people died on migration routes worldwide than ever since data collection began in 2014, the UN’s International Organization for…
Senegal’s delayed presidential election scheduled for March 24
Dakar, Mar. 7, (dpa/GNA) – Senegal’s delayed presidential election has been set for March 24, the government announced after a turbulent Cabinet meeting on Wednesday. The West…
Facebook and Instagram restored after outages
Mar 5 (BBC/GNA) – Meta says it has resolved a “technical issue” which caused Facebook, Messenger and Instagram to go down. Hundreds of thousands…
Ex-Twitter executives sue Musk for $128 million in severance pay
San Jose, Mar. 5, (dpa/GNA) – Four former top Twitter executives who were fired by billionaire Elon Musk when he bought the social media company are suing…
Gordon Brown warns ‘fake news’ risks preparations for next pandemic
London, Mar. 5, (PA Media/dpa/GNA) – Former prime minister Gordon Brown warned that “fake news” risked jeopardising a World Health Organisation mission to prepare for the next…
UK Navy ship intercepts two hauls of drugs in Caribbean worth ÂŁ290m
London, Mar. 5, (dpa/GNA) – A UK Royal Navy vessel has intercepted two huge hauls of drugs in the Caribbean Sea, worth more than ÂŁ290 million ($368…
Patent row between Amazon and Huawei ended
Beijing, Mar. 5, (dpa/GNA) – US e-commerce giant Amazon and China’s multinational tech corporation Huawei have ended a row over patents. Amazon and Huawei have reached a…
Turkey detains ex-police chief, six others, for spying for Mossad
Istanbul, Mar. 5, (dpa/GNA) – Turkish authorities detained seven suspects, including a former police chief, on Tuesday for allegedly selling information to Israeli spy agency Mossad, the…
US says Houthi hit Swiss-owned container ship in Gulf of Aden
Cairo, Mar. 5, (dpa/GNA) – Iranian-backed Houthis on Monday hit a Swiss-owned, Liberian-flagged container vessel in the Gulf of Aden with an anti-ship ballistic missile fired from…
Iran-Pakistan border region shaken by magnitude-5.4 earthquake
Tehran, Mar. 5, (dpa/GNA) – An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 on Tuesday shook the border region of south-east Iran and southern Pakistan, an area which…
China sets ambitious 5% growth target for 2024, despite economic woes
Beijing, Mar. 5, (dpa/GNA) – China has set an ambitious growth target of “around 5%” this year, despite the world’s second-largest economy struggling with slowing global demand…
China’s National People’s Congress opens in Beijing
Beijing, Mar. 5, (dpa/GNA) – China’s annual National People’s Congress opens in the capital Beijing on Tuesday. At the week-long event, nearly 3,000 delegates from the unelected…
France enshrines right to abortion in its constitution
Paris, Mar. 5, (dpa/GNA) – The French parliament voted on Monday to enshrine the right to abortion in the French constitution. The three-fifths majority required for this…
Australia’s Barrier Reef ‘in grave danger’ from ‘marine heatwave’
Sydney, Mar. 5, (dpa/GNA) – Scientists are warning of devastating coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Australia’s eastern state of Queensland. According…
US Vice President Harris receives Israeli war Cabinet minister Gantz
Washington, Mar. 5, (dpa/GNA) – US Vice President Kamala Harris received Benny Gantz, a member of Israel’s wartime Cabinet, for talks at the White House on…
Bitcoin surges to a new record high as mainstream money flows into crypto
New York, Mar 5 (CNN/GNA) — Bitcoin surged to its all-time high on Monday, shaking off a more than two-year rut that put the future of…
Apple hit with landmark $2 billion EU antitrust fine
London, Mar 4 (CNN/GNA) — The European Union has fined Apple €1.84 billion ($2 billion) for breaking its competition laws. The bloc announced Monday that…
Latvia registers increased number of migrants at border with Belarus
Riga, Mar. 4, (dpa/GNA) – With the arrival of spring weather, Latvia is once again registering more migrants illegally attempting to cross the border from neighbouring Belarus.…
German civil rescue ship takes 77 migrants on board in Mediterranean
Rome, Mar. 4, (dpa/GNA) – The crew of the Humanity 1 rescue ship has picked up 77 migrants from several boats drifting in the central Mediterranean, according…