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South Africa urges ICJ to consider action on Israel’s planned Rafah assault
World Court asked to order additional emergency measures ahead of an assault on Gaza city crammed with displaced people. South Africa says it has asked the World Court to consider whether Israel’s plan to extend its offensive in the Gaza Strip into the densely populated southern city of Rafah requires additional emergency measures to protect […]
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Coal miner building SA’s biggest wind farm
Coal producer Seriti Resources has started building South Africa’s largest wind farm, as the country’s mining industry seeks to cut its reliance on troubled state-owned power utility Eskom. South Africa plans to transition to cleaner-energy sources from the most polluting fossil fuel, but faces the additional challenge of cushioning the blow to communities dependent on […]
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Death toll of Palestinians in Gaza rises to 27,478: ministry
GAZA, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) — The death toll of Palestinians killed from Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip has risen to 27,478, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said on Monday. During the past 24 hours, at least 113 Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks in various places in the Gaza Strip, raising the total number of […]
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Senegal’s Macky Sall postpones presidential election
Senegal’s President Macky Sall has indefinitely postponed the presidential election that was scheduled to take place on February 25. Speaking in a televised address to the nation on Saturday, the president announced he had cancelled the relevant electoral law, citing a dispute over the candidate list. Sall said he signed a decree abolishing a November […]
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Namibia’s President Hage Geingob dies aged 82
Namibian President Hage Geingob has died at the age of 82, his office has announced, less than a month after it was announced he would undergo treatment for cancer. Geingob died on Sunday at Lady Pohamba Hospital in the capital Windhoek with his wife and his children at his side, acting president Nangolo Mbumba said […]
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Microsoft is worth more than US$3tn
Microsoft became the second-ever company worth US$3 trillion on Wednesday as the artificial intelligence boom sent shares of the company’s stock soaring higher. For comparison, Microsoft’s market value is now larger than the entire GDP of France and just behind that of the United Kingdom. The stock rose by nearly 1,5 percent to about US$405 […]
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Global coal use to reach record high in 2023, energy agency says
Global coal use is expected to reach a record high in 2023 as demand in emerging and developing economies remains strong, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said. The demand for coal is seen rising 1.4 percent in 2023, surpassing 8.5 billion tonnes for the first time as usage in India is expected to grow […]
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Trump’s ex-lawyer Giuliani told to pay $148m for defaming election workers
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who served as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, has been ordered to pay $148m in damages to two former election workers he defamed with false claims about the 2020 presidential election. An eight-person federal jury in Washington, DC, said on Friday that Giuliani should pay Ruby Freeman and her […]
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ECOWAS formally suspends Niger’s membership
ABUJA, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) — The 15-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has formally suspended Niger’s membership in the regional bloc until constitutional order is restored in the country. In a statement sent to Xinhua Friday, the ECOWAS Commission said the suspension followed a decision of the Authority of Heads of State and […]
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Voting ends in Egypt’s presidential election
CAIRO, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) — Egypt concluded on Tuesday the three-day voting in the presidential election as the vote-counting process started immediately, according to the National Election Authority (NEA). The timetable previously released by the NEA indicated that the vote-counting, which started after 9:00 p.m. local time (1900 GMT) on Tuesday, will be completed on […]
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