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Is Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant at risk of an ‘accident’?

Posted by April 16, 2024

EXPLAINERGlobal powers raise alarm after latest drone attack on Russian-held nuclear facility hits reactor confinement structure.Ukraine’s Russian-held Zapori

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‘This fire will burn in their house’: Ukraine’s anger grows…

Posted by April 16, 2024

Athens, Greece – Frustration with the United States for holding back critical financial and military aid from Ukraine spilled into the open at the Delphi Econ

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International support for Tunisia’s jailed opposition leader Ghannouchi

Posted by April 16, 2024

Newly formed International Committee for Solidarity with Rached Ghannouchi says the Ennahdha party leader is ‘oldest prisoner of conscience in the Arab worldâ

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Solomon Islands prepares for ‘most important election since independence’

Posted by April 16, 2024

The people of the Solomon Islands are set to vote for their next government on April 17, in an election that could have repercussions for the rest of the Asia P

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Top 50 biggest news websites in the world: Newsweek doubles…

Posted by April 15, 2024

Newsweek was the biggest-growing news website in the world in March, according to Press Ga

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Will Israel respond to Iran’s first-ever direct attack?

Posted by April 15, 2024

The Israeli government says it’s weighing its options amid calls from allies to de-escalate tensions.The smoke has cleared and the dust has settled after Iran

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Coral reefs around the world experiencing mass bleaching, scientists say

Posted by April 15, 2024

Along coastlines from Australia to Kenya to Mexico, many of the world’s colourful coral reefs have turned a ghostly white in what scientists say has amounted

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Azerbaijan calls for ICJ to throw out Armenian ethnic cleansing…

Posted by April 15, 2024

The case accuses Azerbaijan of glorifying racism and allowing hate speech against Armenians.Azerbaijan has called for the UN’s International Court of Justice

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Europe pledges to boost aid to Sudan on unwelcome war…

Posted by April 15, 2024

Germany promises $260m as European diplomats meet in Paris to mark the first anniversary of the conflict.Germany will provide 244 million euros ($260m) in human

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Sweden launches war crimes trial against former Syrian officer

Posted by April 15, 2024

Mohammed Hamo is the first Syrian officer to face trial in Europe over military operations in the civil war.Sweden has launched the trial of a former Syrian arm

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Floods kill 58 in Tanzania with heavy rains persisting

Posted by April 15, 2024

More than 100,000 people have been affected by the flooding, which has hit Tanzania’s coastal areas especially hard.Floods have killed 58 people in Tanzania o

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UN urges restraint as Iran and Israel trade barbs at…

Posted by April 15, 2024

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges adversaries ‘to step back from the brink’ of a wider conflict.The United Nations has called on Iran and Israel to s

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