Pristina: Violent protests against the Albanian mayor in the Serb community area of Kosovo have also left 30 NATO-led peacekeeping force personnel injured. Serbs tried to seize the offices of a municipality in northern Kosovo where Albanian mayors took office last week. Some of the clashes took place in the municipality of Zvicin, 45 km…
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…
The Indian government admitted about the incident of firing BrahMos missile in Pakistani territory on March 9 last year that it had to bear the global shame for firing the missile. According to the media report, the Indian government says that the incident of the Brahmos missile falling in Pakistan has also affected relations with…
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…
The matter of one of the three nuclear sites of Iran has been resolved. According to the Iranian media from Tehran, the IAE had investigated the discovery of uranium particles in Iran’s nuclear site. According to the news agency, an investigation was conducted after finding 83.7 percent pure uranium particles at the Iranian nuclear site….
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…
The military base housed Ugandan soldiers and African Union mission personnel; Photo: File Mogadishu: Insurgents in Somalia have attacked an African Union peacekeeping mission and a Ugandan military base in the center of the country, killing 17 people and injuring scores. According to the World News Agency, Al-Shabaab fighters attacked the Masagawa military base in…
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…
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…
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…
