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Putin signs decree allowing seizure of Americans’ assets if US confiscates Russian holdings
President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree allowing Russia to confiscate U.S. assets to compensate for any Russian assets confiscated in the United States. The decree was published on the Russian government’s legal portal on Thursday as top finance officials from the Group of Seven industrialized nations began a meeting at which the question of what to do with Russian…
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Biden welcomes Kenya’s President as US plays catch-up engagement in Africa
Kenyan President William Ruto is the first African leader in more than 15 years to make an official state visit to the US. This is an opportunity for President Joe Biden to demonstrate commitment to Africa at a time when Washington appears to be playing catch-up in its engagement with the continent. But relations with other African allies are under…
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Microsoft, G42 unveil $1bn digital investment initiative in Kenya
By Innocent Raphael Microsoft Corporation and G42 have unveiled a substantial digital investment initiative in Kenya, collaborating with the Republic of Kenya’s Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy. According to information published on the Microsoft website on Wednesday, the partnership will include an initial $1 billion investment to enhance Kenya’s digital infrastructure and capabilities. Stating that central to…
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ICC prosecutor seeks arrest of Israeli, Hamas leaders
he chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has applied for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas’s leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, for war crimes. Karim Khan KC said there were reasonable grounds to believe that both men bore criminal responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity from the day of Hamas’s attack on…
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Raisi’s death: Iran declares five days of mourning
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced on Monday a five days of mourning for President Ebrahim Raisi who died in a helicopter crash. Ali Khamenei expressed his condolences following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi and also Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian. “I announce five days of public mourning and offer my condolences to the dear people of Iran,” said…
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UPDATED: Iran’s President Raisi, FM Amirabdollahian die in helicopter crash
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian have been killed in a helicopter crash in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. Raisi died after a helicopter carrying him and other officials crashed in a mountainous and forested area of the country in poor weather. The 63-year-old, a figure representing conservative and hardline factions in Iranian politics, was president for nearly…
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Home Office threatens to deport disabled Nigerian after 38years in UK
A disabled man who has lived in the UK for 38 years has been threatened with removal from the UK by the Home Office. Anthony Olubunmi George, 61, came to the UK at the age of 24 in 1986 from Nigeria. He has not left the UK since and has no criminal convictions. In 2019, he had two strokes, which left him with…
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Helicopter carrying Iran’s President suffers ‘hard landing’
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has suffered a “hard landing”, state television reported, saying more details will follow soon as search operations are under way for the helicopter. Iranian state media said the incident occurred on Sunday near Jolfa in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. A day earlier, Raisi was in neighbouring Azerbaijan to inaugurate a dam alongside President…
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Three killed as military stop ‘attempted coup’ in DR Congo
A total of three people have been reported killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DR Congo) capital following a shootout between armed men in military uniform and guards of a top politician – an incident the army described as an attempted coup. Two police officers and one of the attackers were among those killed in the shootout that started…
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Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso conclude plans to form alliance
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have finalised plans to form a confederation after turning their backs on former colonial ruler France to seek closer ties with Russia. Their foreign ministers met Friday in Niger’s capital Niamey to agree on a text establishing the Confederation of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). “The objective was to finalise the draft text relating…
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