Russia has given passports to 1.5 million citizens of Ukrainian regions

Russia has given passports to 1.5 million citizens of Ukrainian regions

Russia has given passports to 1.5 million citizens of the annexed territories of Ukraine. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that passports have been given to citizens of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson of Ukraine. Moscow announced the annexation of these areas to Russia in September last year. According to the foreign news agency, Russia…

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Turkey and Egypt agree to restore diplomatic relations that have been broken for 10 years

Turkey and Egypt agree to restore diplomatic relations that have been broken for 10 years

Turkey and Egypt have severed diplomatic relations since 2013; Photo: File Ankara: Turkey’s newly elected President Tayyip Erdogan agreed to restore diplomatic ties suspended for a decade in a telephone conversation with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. According to the World News Agency, after Tayyip Erdogan was elected president for the second time in a…

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Egypt and Turkey agree on immediate restoration of diplomatic relations

Egypt and Turkey agree on immediate restoration of diplomatic relations

November 2022: The presidents of Egypt and Turkey shake hands during a meeting during the soccer World Cup in Doha. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan have agreed on the immediate restoration of diplomatic relations and the appointment of ambassadors. According to a foreign news agency, Sisi congratulated Erdogan on his…

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UN humanitarians complete first food distribution in Khartoum as hunger, threats to children, intensify

UN humanitarians complete first food distribution in Khartoum as hunger, threats to children, intensify

WFP’s Country Director in Sudan, Eddie Rowe, told reporters in Geneva that in a major breakthrough, the agency distributed food assistance to 15,000 people in both Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) controlled areas of Omdurman, part of the Khartoum metropolitan area, beginning on Saturday. Speaking from Port Sudan, Mr. Rowe highlighted other recent…

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WMO makes urgent call to action over melting cryosphere

WMO makes urgent call to action over melting cryosphere

WMO warned on Tuesday that glaciers and ice sheet melt in Greenland and Antarctica accounts for some 50 per cent of sea level rise, which is accelerating, with disastrous impacts on small island developing states (SIDS) and densely populated coastal areas. Glacier melt The average thickness of the world’s glaciers has plummeted by almost 30 metres since 1970. “The cryosphere…

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Nearly half of Haiti going hungry, new food security report warns

Nearly half of Haiti going hungry, new food security report warns

The latest integrated food security phase classification (IPC) analysis, reported on Sunday that of the total number of affected people, 1.8 million are in an emergency-level phase of need. This means that households face large food consumption gaps resulting in high acute malnutrition and excess mortality, or are forced to adopt negative coping mechanisms to…

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