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Breaking News Fri, 19 Apr 2024
A passerby, taking on his cellphone, walks past a banner showing missiles being launched from Iranian map in northern Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 19, 2024. Iran fired air defenses at a major air base and a nuclear site near the central city of Isfahan after spotting drones early Friday morning, raising fears of a possible Israeli strike in retaliation for Tehran's unprecedented drone-and-missile assault on the country.
Iran   Israel   Mideast Peace   Photos   Wikipedia: IranIsrael relations  
Iran and Israel playing with fire as old rules of confrontation are torn up
Reported Israeli drone strike on Isfahan may signal that this widening conflict has become more dynamic While the details remain vague, and Iranian denials strong, it seems very likely, given past his... (photo: AP / Vahid Salemi) The Guardian
Soldiers loyal to Burkina Faso's latest coup leader Capt. Ibrahim Traore gather outside the National Assembly as Traore was appointed Burkina Faso's transitional president in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Friday Oct. 14, 2022
Africa   Burkina Faso   France   Photos  
Burkina Faso junta expel 3 French diplomats over alleged subversive activities
DAKAR, Senegal — The military Junta ruling Burkina Faso have expelled three French diplomats for alleged subversive activities, according to a government document posted on social media Thursday. | ... (photo: AP / Kilaye Bationo) Newsday
FILE  Former South African President Jacob Zuma addresses supporters of the newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) in Durban, South Africa, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. South Africa's election commission has ruled that Zuma is not eligible to run in upcoming elections because of Zuma's criminal record. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison in 2021 for defying a court order to appear before a judicial commission that was investigating corruption allegations during his presidency. (AP Photo, File) Jacob Zuma’s nine lives: How South Africa’s ex-president keeps coming back
In March, South Africa’s electoral commission barred former president Jacob Zuma from running as a parliamentary candidate in next month’s general elections due to a previous criminal conviction w... (photo: AP / Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) Al Jazeera
Jacob Zuma   Photos   Politics   South Africa  
File - Farmers bring in the harvest with their combine harvesters, background, on a barley field near the village of Uzunovo in Moscow region, 170 km (105 miles) south of Moscow, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010.  Moscow announced a ban on grain exports due to a severe drought. Food fight: Russia’s ‘grain diplomacy’ reshaping global markets
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “grain diplomacy” continues to cause headaches for the European Union while potentially reshaping global trade dynamics and markets more in Moscow’s favor. |... (photo: AP / Ivan Sekretarev) Asiatimes
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A young girl carries an empty container as she walks across the sands to fill it from a well in Barrah, a desert village in the Sahel belt of Chad, Friday, April 20, 2012. UNICEF estimates that 127,000 children under 5 in Chad's Sahel belt will require lifesaving treatment for severe acute malnutrition this year, with an estimated 1 million expected throughout the wider Sahel region of West and Central Africa in the countries of Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Senegal and Mauritania Deadly Sahel heatwave caused by ‘human-induced’ climate change: Study
Human-caused climate change contributed to an unusually intense and lethal hot spell throughout West Africa’s Sahel region in April, according to a study by World Weath... (photo: AP / Ben Curtis) Al Jazeera
Africa   Climate change   Photos   Weather  
FILE - People displaced by the ongoing fighting between Congolese forces and M23 rebels gather in a camp on the outskirts of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. The U.N. human rights chief says the world is forgetting the escalating violence in eastern Congo as conflicts continue in places like Ukraine and Gaza. He visited the region and called for peace and support for millions repeatedly displaced. Eastern Congo has long been overrun by more than 120 armed groups seeking to control the regions rich resources as they carry out mass killings. The U.N. rights chief says eastern Congo's escalating violence is being forgotten by the world
The world is forgetting the escalating violence in eastern Congo as conflicts continue in places like Ukraine and Gaza, the U.N. human rights chief said Wednesday while v... (photo: AP / Moses Sawasawa, File) Yahoo Daily News
DR Congo   Human Rights   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: March 23 Movement  
A digital twin is a virtual model of a physical object. It spans the object's lifecycle and uses real-time data sent from sensors on the object to simulate the behavior and monitor operations. Digital twin market to surpass $150bn by 2030, impacting many industries
GlobalData’s Digital Twins report examines growth and users across many industries including power, healthcare and sport. | The digital twin market will be worth $154bn... (photo: AI) Offshore Technology
Business   Digital twin market   Global Trading   Photos  
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia Remembering Cambodia’s genocide in a corner of Africa
Kigali, RWANDA- April 1975 was a cruel month for millions of Cambodians. Forty-nine years ago, on April 17, the Khmer Rouge finally captured Phnom Penh after a five-year ... (photo: Creative Commons / nicolas pascarel) Asiatimes
Cambodia   Photos   Rwanda   United Nations  
Head of UNSMIL Briefs Press after Security Council Meeting on Libya UN envoy lashes out at Libya’s feuding parties and their foreign backers, then says he’s resigned
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy for Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, lashed out at the country’s feuding parties and their foreign backers at a U.N. Security Council me... (photo: UN / Rick Bajornas) Wtop
Libya   Photos   Politics   United Nations  
File - Young girls pull containers of water as they return to their huts from a well in the village of Lomoputh in northern Kenya Thursday, May 12, 2022. United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths visited the area on Thursday to see the effects of the drought which the U.N. says is a severe climate-induced humanitarian emergency in the Horn of Africa UN calls for women's participation to boost climate resilience in Africa
NAIROBI, April 16 (Xinhua) -- The dream of a green, resilient, and inclusive future for Africa is within reach once governments harness the ingenuity of grassroots women ... (photo: AP / Brian Inganga) China.dot.org
Africa   Climate change   Photos   United Nations  
FILE - Leader of the Ennahdha party, Rached Ghannouchi, speaks to the media after he was freed by the Tunisia's anti-terrorism unit in Tunis, Tunisia, Tuesday, July 19, 2022. International support for Tunisia’s jailed opposition leader Ghannouchi
Marking the first anniversary of the arrest of Tunisia’s prominent opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi, an international committee has formed to raise awareness of the ... (photo: AP / Hassene Dridi, File) Al Jazeera
Islamic   Photos   Politics   Tunisia  
Crypto coins (Bitcoin, Litecoin) on the table South Africa FSCA greenlights 59 crypto licenses
South Africa’s financial regulator, the FSCA, has approved 59 license applications from cryptocurrency facilities seeking to serve local residents. According to , the F... (photo: Creative Commons) Cryptopolitan
Photos   South Africa   Trading   Wikipedia: Crypto   crypto  
In this Saturday, April 5, 2014 file photo, family photographs of some of those who died hang in a display in the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Kigali, Rwanda Because the world is not always beautiful and angelic
On the occasion of the thirty-year anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, The Economist featured an article about the efforts made by the current leader, Paul Kag... (photo: AP / Ben Curtis, File) Philenews
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Soldiers loyal to Burkina Faso's latest coup leader Capt. Ibrahim Traore gather outside the National Assembly as Traore was appointed Burkina Faso's transitional president in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Friday Oct. 14, 2022
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File - Farmers bring in the harvest with their combine harvesters, background, on a barley field near the village of Uzunovo in Moscow region, 170 km (105 miles) south of Moscow, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010.  Moscow announced a ban on grain exports due to a severe drought.
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FILE  Former South African President Jacob Zuma addresses supporters of the newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) in Durban, South Africa, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. South Africa's election commission has ruled that Zuma is not eligible to run in upcoming elections because of Zuma's criminal record. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison in 2021 for defying a court order to appear before a judicial commission that was investigating corruption allegations during his presidency. (AP Photo, File)
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A passerby, taking on his cellphone, walks past a banner showing missiles being launched from Iranian map in northern Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 19, 2024. Iran fired air defenses at a major air base and a nuclear site near the central city of Isfahan after spotting drones early Friday morning, raising fears of a possible Israeli strike in retaliation for Tehran's unprecedented drone-and-missile assault on the country.
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