ShareBy Aluta News July 20, 2021 UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned the “horrific bomb attack targeting civilians” at a busy market in the North-east of the Iraqi capital, just before the Eid-al-Adha holiday. In a statement issued by Deputy Spokesman to UN Secretary-General, Farhan Haq, the UN chiefContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 20, 2021 A former Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), Ban Ki-moon, has been re-elected for an additional four-year term as Chair of the International Olympics Committee (IOC) Ethics Commission. Ban’s re-election took place at the 138th IOC Session on Tuesday in Tokyo. The South KoreanContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 19, 2021 UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Monday said that Chinese state-backed groups had carried out hacking attacks on the Microsoft exchange server. “The cyber-attack on Microsoft Exchange Server by Chinese state-backed groups is a reckless but familiar pattern of behaviour,’’ Raab said, quoting theContinue Reading
ShareNATO on Monday called on China to “act responsibly” in cyberspace after several members of the alliance accused Chinese state-backed groups of carrying out hacking attacks on the Microsoft exchange server. “We acknowledge national statements by Allies attributing responsibility for the Microsoft Exchange Server compromise to the People’s Republic ofContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 17, 2021 Rescuers have pulled out 11 bodies and rescued 19 people from a well after a concrete slab over it collapsed in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, the Police said on Saturday. The people had assembled on the slab of the well toContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 17, 2021 The US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday confirmed that a rare case of human monkeypox was detected in Texas, making it the first case of the virus seen in the state. The viral illness was found in a U.S. resident,Continue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 17, 2021 The World Health Organisation is ramping up pressure in its search for the origins of the coronavirus. In a letter to member countries, WHO listed its research priorities and announced a new permanent working group to look for the origin of new pathogens. WHOContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 17, 2021 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was, on Saturday, sworn in for a fourth seven-year term, amid a worsening economic crisis in the war-ravaged country. In May, al-Assad, who has ruled Syria since 2000, was re-elected after gaining an expected landslide in a presidential election that was dismissedContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 16, 2021 The long-serving president of Portuguese giants Benfica, Luis Filipe Vieira, has resigned after being detained over allegations of tax fraud and money laundering, the Lisbon club said on Friday. The 72-year-old Vieira, who had led Benfica for 18 years, offered his resignation on Thursday.Continue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 15, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh, will receive the Olympic Laurel at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Games on July 23, the International Olympic Committee said on Thursday. The 81-year-old Yunus is to be the second recipient of the Laurel, aContinue Reading
