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Congo-Kinshasa: New Wave of Violence in Ituri Puts Civilians at Further Risk - Eastern DR Congo Report
[MSF] Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has witnessed a renewed spike in atrocities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s Ituri province, where its medical teams are providing care for civilians with horrific injuries. In a new report released today, "Risking Their Lives to Survive," MSF underscores the extreme needs of many communities endangered by recent attacks, increased displacement...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:
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Filipinos find a new way to earn extra pesos β as virtual assistants
Driven by a desire for better pay and flexible hours, a million Filipinos hungry for opportunity are powering a virtual-assistant revolution.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Relocation of Hindu temple in Malaysia fuels accusations of special privileges
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is set to lay the foundation stone for a new mosque on the current site of the Hindu temple in Kuala Lumpur.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Kenya: Kenyan Police Officer Missing After Gang Ambush in Haiti
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- A Kenyan officer deployed under the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission in Haiti remains unaccounted for after gangs ambushed a rescue team in the Artibonite Department, MSS spokesperson Jack Ombaka confirmed in a statement.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Nigeria: Senate Dismisses Akpoti-Uduaghan's Sexual Harassment Petition As Ezekwesili, Senator Clash
[Premium Times] The Senate panel said it would not hear Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan's petition because on the grounds that the matter was already before a court.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Judge not convinced of killer's remorse after shooting young rapper
A Supreme Court judge says he's "far from persuaded" that a killer is sorry for shooting a young rapper dead during a home invasion in Melbourne's west four years ago.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Summernats guards avoid jail after punching patrons in festival brawl
Two security guards who punched patrons in a brawl at Summernats have escaped jail time, with a judge labelling the situation as "highly volatile".
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Scam Factories: The inside story of Southeast Asiaβs fraud compounds - Part 3
Those who escape scam compounds face persistent questions from authorities and their families about whether they are truly a victim.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Scam Factories: The inside story of Southeast Asiaβs fraud compounds - Part 2
Scamming is big business in Southeast Asia, on an almost unstoppable rise.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Scam Factories: The inside story of Southeast Asiaβs fraud compounds - Part 1
Life inside the huge scam factories across Southeast Asia using modern slavery to staff their secret compounds.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:'The goal was to kill': Palestinian Oscar winner recounts the settler attack, detention
'The goal was to kill': Palestinian Oscar winner recounts the settler attack, detention Israeli police released Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal on Tuesday, after detaining him a day earlier following what activists described as an attack by settlers in the occupied West Bank. "After I won the Oscar, I did not expect to be exposed to such attacks," Ballal said in a video by AFPTV. "It was a very strong...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Diving through time: South Australiaβs flooded caves hide a rich megafauna history
Scientists have teamed up with cave divers on a perilous mission β to reach exceptional fossils and learn more about Australiaβs past
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Could UN peacekeepers be the key to a Ukraine ceasefire force?
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Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Latest news bulletin | March 26th β Morning
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Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Scent of scandal: Pakistani YouTuber Rajab Buttβs perfume stirs religious controversy
Rajab Butt was charged with blasphemy after launching a perfume named β295β, referring to blasphemy legislation in Pakistanβs penal code.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa Retires Army Commander Sanyatwe, Appoints Him Sports Minister
[New Zimbabwe] President Emmerson Mnangagwa has retired Lieutenant General Anselem Nhamo Sanyatwe as Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) Commander and curiously shunted him into a ministerial position.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Raising cigarette taxes and tobacco wars have created a βseriousβ budget problem. What can Labor do about it?
Growing illicit tobacco trade is undercutting the legal market, leaving government coffers short of funds to pay for major policiesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe tobacco wars just shot a $6.9bn hole in the federal budget. A wave of crime in otherwise quiet suburbs has now become a structural drag on the nationβs finances.The...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Hong Kong lawmakers call for simpler fee waiver process under healthcare reform
Hospital Authority chief says applications will be made available via the βHA Goβ mobile app, which legislators also suggest.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Afternoon Update: budget tax cuts pass lower house; easing inflation boosts rate cut hopes; and a dachshund on the run
Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Afternoon Update here, and start your day with our Morning Mail newsletter.The Albanese government has moved to quickly push its budget tax cuts through parliament in an apparent move to wedge the opposition. The bill passed through the lower house on Wednesday morning without Coalition support β a move Jim Chalmers highlighted in a National Press Club...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Inquiry into botched MyWay+ rollout hears personal details were accessible online
An inquiry into Canberra's troubled MyWay+ ticketing system has been told the personal details of public transport users were likely accessible on the internet before and after its launch.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:More than 100 businesses linked to illegal tyre stockpile near Bendigo
About 10,000 tyres have been found at an illegal dump at Lockwood South, near Bendigo, sparking a statewide operation by the EPA.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Niger: Mosque Attack Which Killed 44 Should Be 'Wake-Up Call', Says Rights Chief
[UN News] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker TΓΌrk on Tuesday condemned the recent attack on a mosque in Kokorou village, in western Niger, in which at least 44 worshippers were killed and 20 injured.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Paddington Bear statue vandalisers fined for criminal damage
The pair drunkenly stole the statue in the early hours of the morning before fleeing in a taxi to the RAF base they live on.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Wrapped in plastic: Sarah Hanson-Young waves a dead salmon in Senate β video
The Greens senator produced the apparently headless, dead fish during question time in the Senate after directing a question at Laborβs Jenny McAllister. βOn the eve of an election, have you sold out your environmental credentials for a rotten, stinking extinction salmon?β, Hanson-Young asked before the Senate president, Sue Lines, told Hanson-Young to remove the fish from the chamber. The Albanese governmentβs new...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Senegal: IMF Chief Outlines Plan to Resume Grants to Senegal
[RFI] A top boss at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says his organisation hopes to finalise a new aid programme for Senegal as soon as possible after suspending its $1.8 billion credit line in October following revelations of distorted figures and fiscal mismanagement.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Ethiopia: Ethiopia Advances WTO Membership As Govt Announces 'Successful' Fifth-Round Negotiations
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Ethiopia has announced positive outcomes from the recently concluded fifth round of negotiations, advancing the government's plan to complete its World Trade Organization (WTO) accession process by March 2026.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:An ominous shadow falls over mRNA technology
Once researchers begin wondering whether their government might pull the rug from under them, the damage is done
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Colombia: Armed Groups Batter Border Region
People cross a river to Venezuela from Tibu, Colombia on January 21, 2025, following fightings that killed dozens and forced thousands to flee their homes in the Colombian Catatumbo region. 2025 AP Photo/Fernando Vergara Armed groups fighting over parts of the Catatumbo region near theColombia-Venezuelaborder have committed grave abuses and displaced thousands.The groups have killed, assaulted, kidnapped, and...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Zimbabwe: Who Is Kirsty Coventry and How Did She Become the Most Powerful Person in World Sports?
[The Conversation Africa] The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has elected a woman as its president for the first time ever. Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry is also the youngest ever IOC president and the first from an African country, becoming a symbol of the IOC's drive to diversify its leadership and image.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Africa: Wealthy Nations Owe Climate Debt to Africa - Funds That Could Help Cities Grow
[The Conversation Africa] Wealthy nations fuelled their industrial growth and urbanisation by burning fossil fuels. This was the biggest cause of climate change, which now affects every country in the world, even developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa which are responsible for less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Wealthy nations owe a climate debt.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Thailandβs PM Survives Parliamentary Vote of No-confidence
The opposition People's Party has accused Paetongtarn Shinawatra of being under the undue influence of her father, ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Albanese thinks the Coalition is βdelulu with no soluluβ β but what does it mean?
Caitlin Cassidy translates the prime ministerβs use of gen Z phrases for Catie McLeodFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe prime minister is using phrases I donβt understand in parliament. On Wednesday, he said the Coalition were βdelulu with no soluluβ. What is going on?Catie, I am rapidly aging out of being cool and donβt understand the...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Death toll rises in Korean wildfires as firefighters struggle to contain blaze
Multiple wildfires are raging across South Korea's south-eastern region, with thousands of firefighters aided by the military deployed in a bid to contain one of the country's worst forest fires in decades.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Thousands turn out for Turkey protests after more than 1,400 arrests
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says protesters want to turn the country into a "place of chaos".
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Demonstrators block traffic in Budapest in opposition to new law banning LGBTQ+ Pride events
The protest was the second in as many weeks since the ruling Fidesz party of Hungary used its two-thirds parliamentary majority last Tuesday to expedite the law, which critics say is the government's most recent assault on the rights of the LGBTQ+ community in the country.
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