ShareBy Aluta News July 24, 2023 Senior UN officials on Sunday condemned the deadly Russian missile strikes in the Ukraine city of Odesa which damaged several historic buildings. Over the past week, Russia has carried out aerial attacks on Odesa and two other port cities, Chornomorsk and Mykolaiv, since terminatingContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 21, 2023 Governments and street protests in several Muslim-majority Arab countries on Friday denounced the renewed desecration of a Qu’ran in Sweden. Saudi Arabia, Islam’s birthplace, expressed strong denunciation of the “repeated and irresponsible actions of the Swedish authorities” in permitting “extremists” to desecrate copies ofContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 21, 2023 The United Nations on Thursday celebrated the life and legacy of the first black President of post-apartheid South Africa, Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013. The commemoration of Nelson Mandela International Day, which is celebrated on July 18, pays tribute to his fight forContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 4, 2023 Afghanistan’s Taliban government has ordered all women’s beauty salons to close, local media reported on Tuesday. “No justification was provided for the decision. The licences the salons require to operate will expire next month,’’ according to the decree published by Afghan media. Beauty salonsContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 4, 2023 The President-elect of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Dennis Francis, has unveiled the theme of the 78th session in collaboration with the Member States and UN top officials. The theme will be “Rebuilding trust and reigniting global solidarity: Accelerating action on the 2030 AgendaContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 30, 2023 Poland, supported by Hungary, called for a revision of plans to reform asylum rules in the European Union (EU) at a two-day meeting of the bloc’s leaders in Brussels, resulting in a stand-off. Under the plans, all member states are to take in someContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 30, 2023 In another major reversal, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action policies at colleges and universities that use race as a factor in deciding who is admitted. In a pair of decisions the six conservative justices ruled that Harvard, the nation’sContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 27, 2023 Nearly 36 million people in the World Health Organisation’s European region may have developed prolonged health impairments after Coronavirus infections since the pandemic began. This corresponds to about one in 30 Europeans over the past three years, WHO Regional Director Hans Kluge said atContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 24, 2023 British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he is in touch with allies about the armed rebellion led by the Wagner mercenary group in Russia. UK defence officials have described the rebellion as “the most significant challenge” to the Kremlin in recent times. President VladimirContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 22, 2023 A California resident on Wednesday was found guilty of illegally importing to the U.S., a mosaic believed to be 2,000 years old from Syria, the U.S. Department of Justice said. According to U.S. authorities, 56-year-old Mohammed Yassin Alcharihi illegally imported the mosaic depicting theContinue Reading
