ShareBy Aluta News March 15, 2024 Hamas has presented a Gaza ceasefire proposal to mediators and the U.S. that includes the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for freedom for Palestinian prisoners, 100 of whom are serving life sentences, according to a proposal seen by Reuters. Hamas said the initialContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Feb. 21, 2024 The UK government on Wednesday slapped sanctions on six senior officials of the Arctic penal colony where Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny died. The sanctioned individuals include Col. Vadim Kalinin, the head of the “Polar Wolf” IK-3 Arctic Penal Colony as well as fiveContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Feb. 21, 2024 South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has determined May 29 as the date for this year’s national and provincial elections. The president has consulted with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) on the election date and convened a meeting with all nine provincial premiers to discussContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Feb. 20, 2024 The mother of Alexei Navalny, the leading Russian opposition figure, has sent a video message to Russian President Vladimir Putin pleading for his body to be released. Navalny, died at a remote Arctic penal colony. In the one-minute video, Lyudmila Navalnaya stands outside theContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Feb. 20, 2024 The death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 29,195 with 69,170 others wounded as the Israeli attacks continue, The Gaza-based Health Ministry said on Tuesday. The Israeli army had killed 103 Palestinians and wounded 142 others in the Strip during the pastContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Feb. 20, 2024 At the start of his Latin American trip to Cuba, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has reaffirmed the intention of closer economic relations with the economically hard-hit island state. New incentives had recently been created for Russian companies to invest in Cuba, Lavrov saidContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Feb. 14, 2024 Singapore authorities are to refund wrongly collected goods and services tax (GST) worth 7.5 million Singapore dollars (5.5 million U.S. dollars) to taxpayers from March. The ministry of finance said this in a statement issued on Wednesday. It said the ministry found out afterContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Jan. 3, 2024 The start date for former U.S. president Donald Trump’s trial for attempted election fraud has been pushed back. The court in the capital Washington announced on Friday that the start of the trial, originally scheduled for March 4, would be postponed due to unresolvedContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Jan. 3, 2024 The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, Denise Brown has condemned a deadly attack on aid workers in the south of the country. Two French citizens volunteering with a Swiss non-governmental organisation were killed and three other foreigners injured in a Russian drone strike inContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Jan. 23, 2024 Uganda is negotiating with an investment company led by a member of Dubai’s royal family to develop a planned $4 billion refinery for some of its crude oil, its energy minister said on Tuesday. Uganda in July last year terminated negotiations with a consortiumContinue Reading
