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New Zealand swears in first Maori woman as governor-general
Social justice advocate Dame Cindy Kiro was sworn on Thursday as New Zealand's governor-general, becoming the first Maori woman to hold the largely ceremonial role.
21 October 2021, 07:02 AM
Goodbye, Columbus: Vikings crossed the Atlantic 1,000 years ago
Long before Columbus crossed the Atlantic, eight timber-framed buildings covered in sod stood on a terrace above a peat bog and stream at the northern tip of Canada's island of Newfoundland, evidence that the Vikings had reached the New World first.
20 October 2021, 19:43 PM
Nearly 100 women sworn in as first female judges to Egypt’s State Council
Nearly 100 women Tuesday became the first female judges to join Egypt’s State Council, one of the country’s main judicial bodies.
20 October 2021, 16:34 PM
Road accident leaves 17 dead in Cairo
At least 17 people were killed on Wednesday when a truck and a microbus collided on the Ring Road in Greater Cairo, state newspaper Al-Ahram said.
20 October 2021, 15:40 PM
This day in history
1935 - Communist forces end their Long March at Yan’an, in Shaanxi, China, bringing Mao Zedong to prominence
19 October 2021, 18:00 PM
UN: 10,000 children killed or maimed in Yemen since 2015
Ten thousand Yemeni children have been killed or maimed since a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia intervened in March 2015
19 October 2021, 18:00 PM
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Milan and Costa Rica were among the winners of the Earthshot Prize on Sunday, an environmental award created by Britain’s Prince William, who has criticized world leaders for an uninspiring response to the climate change crisis.
18 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Russia to halt diplomatic mission to NATO over spy row
Russia said on Monday it would halt the activities of its diplomatic mission to NATO after the alliance expelled eight Russians in a row over spying.
18 October 2021, 12:31 PM
China denies testing hypersonic missile, says it was space vehicle
China tested a space vehicle in July, not a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile as reported by the Financial Times, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday.
18 October 2021, 10:42 AM
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1922 - The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) was formed.
17 October 2021, 18:00 PM
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Last week, various attacks were carried out, for example, Norway, Afghanistan, England, which caused many dead and wounded.
17 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Russian fighter jet scrambled to escort US military plane
A Russian MiG-31 fighter jet has been scrambled to escort a U.S. B-1B strategic bomber over the Sea of Japan, TASS news agency reported on Sunday citing the Russian military, just days after an incident with a U.S. naval destroyer in the same region.
17 October 2021, 13:20 PM
17 US missionaries, family members kidnapped in Haiti
As many as 17 American Christian missionaries and their families, including children, were kidnapped on Saturday by gang members in Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince, U.S. media reported.
17 October 2021, 06:29 AM
Taliban to announce plans ‘soon’ Says UN
The Taliban will announce a framework that allows girls to attend school in Afghanistan “soon,” a senior United Nations official said, after four weeks in which Afghan boys have been allowed a secondary education but girls have not.
16 October 2021, 18:00 PM
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1973 - The Arab-dominated Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announces a decision to cut oil exports to the United States and other nations that provided military aid to Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
16 October 2021, 18:00 PM
WTO again fails to agree on Covid vaccine patent waiver
The World Trade Organization said Friday its member nations had again failed to agree to suspend intellectual property rights for
16 October 2021, 18:00 PM
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It has been an incident, it has been some misunders-tanding, it has been a lack of commu-nication. That’s it, that’s over. Let’s move forward.
16 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Violence threatens Colombian peace accords, UN warns
The deteriorating security situation in Colombia represents a “considerable challenge” to the country’s 2016 peace accords, the United Nations said Thursday at a Security Council meeting.
15 October 2021, 18:00 PM
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1946 - Hermann Goering, the highest ranking Nazi tried at Nuremberg, committed suicide by taking a cyanide capsule in his prison cell the night before he was to be hanged.
14 October 2021, 18:00 PM
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The United States is returning to the UN Human Rights Council three-and-a-half years after its dramatic walk-out -- time seized upon by China to assert wider influence.
14 October 2021, 18:00 PM