ShareBy Aluta News Aug 17, 2021 Thousands of residents and tourists have fled to safety as forest fires in southern France continue to spread. The fires are not yet under control and around 900 firefighters are fighting them, the prefecture in Toulon announced on Tuesday morning. They are being supportedContinue Reading
Share By Aluta News August 17, 2021 Opium: Afghanistan’s drug trade that helped fuel the Taliban Taliban are involved in all facets, from poppy planting, opium extraction, trafficking to charging smugglers export fees. More than 80 percent of global opium and heroin come from Afghanistan The United States spent moreContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Aug 16, 2021 Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Monday sacked Health Minister Pavithra Wanniaarachchi and reshuffled his cabinet amidst growing opposition criticism that some of the ministries, including health, were underperforming as the Coronavirus pandemic worsened. The changes were made in the foreign, education, transport, media, power andContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Aug 16, 2021 The international community has urged the Taliban to allow Afghan nationals and foreigners who wish to leave the country safe passage. A group of more than 60 countries made the call in a joint statement issued by the U.S. State Department. “Afghans and internationalContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Aug 16, 2021 All commercial flights from Kabul’s airport have been cancelled, said a statement of Afghanistan’s civil aviation authority released on Monday. “All the flights from Kabul airport have been temporarily cancelled and the passengers should not come to the airport until informed,’’ the statement said.Continue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Aug 16, 2021 Zambia presidential election results on Mondey showed that the opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema secured a stunning landslide victory over incumbent Edgar Lungu. The electoral commission said Hichilema got 2,810,777 votes against Lungu’s 1,814,201, with all but one of the 156 constituencies counted. In aContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Aug 16, 2021 Mexican and Venezuelan authorities on Monday sent shipments of medical supplies and basic necessities as a humanitarian aid to earthquake-hit Haiti. Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard made this known on Twitter. Ebrard said “the first batch of medical supplies, equipment and basic necessities hasContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Aug 15, 2021 UN Secretary-General António Guterres has extended his deep condolences to the families of the victims as well as the government and people of Haiti over the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck the country on Saturday. Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, said in aContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Aug 14, 2021 Rival armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are carrying out horrific sexual attacks against women and girls, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) warned on Friday. The alert was prompted by what UNHCR has called “widespread and systematic” abuse in TanganyikaContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Aug 14, 2021 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday said there were 42,210 registered refugees and asylum-seekers currently in Libya. So far in 2021, a total of 20,799 refugees and immigrants have been rescued at sea and returned to Libya by the LibyanContinue Reading
