A female white rhino in Namibia The number of endangered rhinos poached in Namibia last year was the highest on record and almost twice as many as the year before, officials say. A total of 87 rhinos were killed compared with 45 in 2021, official government data show. Most were poached in Etosha, Namibia’s biggest …
In Egypt, homosexuality is highly stigmatised, and there have long been allegations that police are hunting LGBT people online. Now BBC News has seen evidence of how the authorities are using dating and social apps to do this, Ahmed Shihab-Eldin reports. All victims’ names have been changed Having grown up in Egypt, I am aware …
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The funding comes under a new programme, which aims to help vulnerable middle-income countries and island states. The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) executive board has approved a support program for Bangladesh worth $4.7bn at current exchange rates, making the South Asian country the first to access its new Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF). The funding …
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[Source] Five Russian men seeking asylum are currently stranded at Incheon International Airport after South Korean authorities denied their entry into the country and prevented them from leaving the airport. Dzhachar Khubiev, Vladimir Maraktaev, a man who wished to be identified only by the pseudonym Andrey and two others have remained at the airport’s departure …
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has applied for a six-month tourist visa to remain in the United States, his lawyer said, as the far-right politician faces an investigation at home into accusations he helped incite this month’s riot in the Brazilian capital. US authorities received Bolsonaro’s visa application on Friday, his lawyer, Felipe Alexandre, told …
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Anthony Blinken and Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, January 30, 2023 Read also: Israel supports Ukraine ‘behind the scenes’, says Israeli ambassador to Germany According to the communique, both the United States and Israel remain convinced that Tehran must not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. To that end, the officials discussed a range of measures …
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German minister says Brazil’s new government offers ‘great chance’ to protect rainforest after widespread destruction. Germany has pledged tens of millions of dollars to help Brazil defend the Amazon rainforest, a critical global ecosystem that it experienced years of devastation under former far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. During a news conference in Brasilia on Monday, …
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Jens Stoltenberg He warned that a Ukrainian defeat in the war would further degrade global security, and urged the international community to continue supporting Kyiv. Read also: Ukraine needs ‘significantly’ more weapons to prevail, NATO’s Stoltenberg says “President Putin can end the war today,” NATO website quotes Stoltenberg’s speech. But the challenge is that we …
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United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called for “calm” and “de-escalation” between Israelis and Palestinians while reiterating Washington’s “ironclad” commitment to Israel. In a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday, Blinken reaffirmed that the administration of US President Joe Biden will push forward with normalization efforts …
Map of Zanzibar and Pemba The Indian Ocean archipelago of Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous province of Tanzania. It consists of the island of Zanzibar or Unjuga, Pemba as well as smaller neighboring islands. A former center of the spice and slave trades, present-day Zanzibar is infused with African, Arab, European and Indian influences. In 1964 …
