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A Russian foreign ministry official said on Friday that Belarus may enter the conflict in Ukraine if Kyiv decides to “invade” either country. Russia used Belarus as a springboard to invade Ukraine in February 2022, and since October has deployed troops in Belarus for joint military drills. Both countries have since agreed to intensify their […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa has conveyed a message of condolence to the government and people of the Republic of Senegal following a bus accident, which resulted in the death of about 40 passengers and injuries to 80 travellers. The accident is reported to have happened in the early hours of Sunday morning, 8 January 2022, when […]
A 16-year-old boy was beaten into unconsciousness on a Manhattan street by a group who stole his Air Jordan sneakers. The NYPD says it happened around 9:15 p.m. last Saturday in front of a McDonald’s at 3543 Broadway in Hamilton Heights. The group walked up to the teen and started to punch and kick him […]
The embattled freshman Congressman from Long Island is refusing to step aside even those party leaders in his district demand he leave his seat. The Nassau County Republican Party is calling on Congressman George Santos to resign. “He has no place in the Nassau County Republican Committee, nor should he serve in public service, nor […]
Governor Kathy Hochul is once again proposing to give judges more discretion when setting bail. Hochul announced this policy initiative during her State of the State speech and on Wednesday defended her decision. “Right now judges have an inconsistency in the law,” Hochul explained. ‘They’re told to consider the least restrictive means, which means least […]
Iran has sentenced a former defense ministry official to death for allegedly spying for Britain, the official IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday. Alireza Akbari, who served as a deputy defense minister during the tenure of former president Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005), was found guilty of “corruption on earth and extensive action against Iran’s internal and […]
Saudi Arabia’s energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said on Wednesday the Kingdom intended to use its domestic uranium for the entire nuclear fuel cycle. He added that recent exploration had shown a diverse portfolio of uranium in the country. Saudi Arabia has a nascent nuclear program that it wants to expand. “The Kingdom intends […]
UK culture minister Michelle Donelan on Wednesday said she did not support the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, following a report that a “cultural exchange” is close to being agreed with Athens. Donelan told BBC radio a deal reportedly negotiated by the British Museum’s chairman, George Osborne, was not about the permanent return […]
Rwandan president Paul Kagame has said that the country can no longer accept refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) . In eastern DRC , a region rich in mineral resources, fighting between government forces and rebels from the M23 movement, a former Tutsi rebellion, has increased tensions with neighbouring Rwanda, which the DRC […]
Britain’s attempt to become the first European nation to launch satellites into space ended in bitter disappointment early on Tuesday when Virgin Orbit said its rocket had suffered an anomaly that prevented it from reaching orbit. The “horizontal launch” mission had left from the coastal town of Newquay in southwest England, with Virgin’s LauncherOne rocket […]
The White House on Monday condemned the latest executions of protesters announced by Iran and said the United States stands with other countries demanding “immediate cessation” of the death sentences. “We condemn the executions of Mohammad Mehdi Karami & Mohammad Hosseini and the additional executions announced today,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan tweeted, referring to […]
The Bronx community came together Monday to remember the 17 lives lost when a fire tore through a Bronx high rise one year ago. Monday marked one year since the Twin Parks fire in the Bronx that left 17 people dead and many more injured and displaced. Members of the community came together today to […]
When I came to office, I inherited a city with many crises, including increasing crime. And my top priority has always been public safety. From day one, I got to work with the Police Commissioner, our Deputy Mayor and our team to make our streets and subways safer. And our public safety strategy is working. New York City is getting safer. 2022 ended with crime trending downward in New York City. In December, we […]
President Joe Biden went to the US-Mexico border on Sunday for the first time since taking office, visiting an El Paso, Texas entry point at the center of debates over illegal immigration and smuggling. He met with uniformed customs and immigration staff at the Bridge of the Americas checkpoint, a complex of inspection buildings and […]
Protesters in southern Afghanistan on Sunday gathered following Prince Harry’s claim in his new memoir that he killed 25 people he described as Taliban fighters while posted with British forces in the country. Around 20 faculty and students demonstrated at a local university in Helmand, the province where British forces were largely concentrated during the […]
More than 7,000 nurses at two hospitals in New York City are on strike as of Monday at 6 a.m. in a dispute over pay and staffing levels. The walkout involves as many as 3,500 nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and around 3,600 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. The walkout is […]
China’s new foreign minister Qin Gang has started his term with a weeklong trip to five African countries, its foreign ministry announced. Qin, who until recently was ambassador to the United States, will visit Ethiopia, Gabon, Angola, Benin and Egypt from January 9 to 16, spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a daily media briefing on […]
Cheikh Anta Diop, born on December 29, 1923 in Thieytou, was a Senegalese scholar and important African historian who largely contributed to the overhaul of African historiography freed from Euro-centric precepts. Egyptologist, anthropologist, ethnologist, sociologist, Pan-Africanist politician in favor of an African federal state, he left for France at the age of 23 where he […]
Adriaan Vlok, a feared minister under South Africa’s apartheid system and one of its few high-ranking officials to be prosecuted has died Sunday aged 85 in a hospital near Pretoria, his family said. The former law and order minister, who oversaw a brutal police crackdown on opponents of white rule, “passed away early this morning […]
The number of hospitals that have failed to reach an agreement with the union representing a group of nurses in New York City is down to three, but thousands of nurses could still walk off the job Monday morning if a deal is not reached. “It’s time for these huge NYC hospitals, who pay their […]