President Donald Trump formalised his bid to become his party’s presidential candidate on Tuesday with victories in Georgia, Mississippi, and Washington. These victories pushed him past the 1,215 delegates needed to become the Republican nominee. Trump’s biggest challenger was Nikki Haley, whom he had earlier knocked out of the race. Trump’s victory was mirrored by […]Read More

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim reiterated his country’s close ties to Hamas. According to an AFP report the prime minister made these remarks during a visit to Germany. Asked about this during a press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, Ibrahim stated that he “had no apologies” about his ties with Hamas though […]Read More

A US coalition has killed 11 people and injured 14 others in strikes on small towns in eastern Yemen, according to a Reuters report. According to a statement by the US Central Command (CENTCOM), the strikes were in retaliation for Houthi missiles targeting a Singapore-owned ship. “Between 8:50 a.m. and 12:50 p.m. (Sanaa time) on March […]Read More

Sudan’s Army General Yasser al-Atta, deputy commander of the Sudanese army, has stated that there will be no truce during the holy month of Ramadan, according to a report in Reuters.   “There are those who talk about a truce in Ramadan. There is no truce by order of the army and the people,” Atta […]Read More

China’s Communist Party (CPC) is expected to pass a bill on Monday that will give it even more powers over the State Council which is the country’s cabinet. According to a South China Morning Post report the amendments to the State Council Organic Law will subject the body to greater oversight over the legislature which […]Read More

South Korea has started deploying the military to cope with the mass strike of 12,000 doctors in the country. According to a Reuters report military physicians and doctors from public health centres will start working from strike-hit hospitals on Monday. The number of military physicians called on to help so far have been roughly 2,400, […]Read More

The US Treasury Department sanctioned two entities on March 8 which it says are promoting Russia’s Wagner Group and its activities in Africa. US Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Brian Nelson said in a statement on March 8: “Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two companies […]Read More

Israel’s settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories have expanded by a record amount, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) chief Volker Turk said on Friday according to a Reuters report. Turk’s remarks came with the release of a 16-page report by the UN, where he said in a statement. “Settler violence and settlement-related […]Read More

Hong Kong has released the draft text of a new national security law which if enacted will enable offenders to get life sentences for treason. According to a report in the Guardian, the law known as Article 23 is legislation that relates to crimes relating to national security. Activists say that if the draft bill […]Read More

North Korea has used the Covid-19 pandemic to seal its northern border with China said international human rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a BBC report. This has led to “intensifying repression” from the regime with “drastically reduced” cross-order movement and trade according to the report. Pyongyang first cut off its China border in […]Read More

The US embassy in Moscow has warned of an imminent attack on the country’s capital in a recent statement. According to a report in the Moscow Times, the statement issued as a warning to American citizens living in the city read: “The embassy is monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings […]Read More

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday says that Beijing supports the “full” membership of the Palestinian state in the United Nations, according to a report in the South China Morning Post.   Wang made these remarks at a press conference on the sidelines of the country’s Two Sessions gathering. The press conference comes after […]Read More

The battle to seal the presidential nomination went to script as both President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump notched up dominating victories on ‘Super Tuesday”, a day when both Republican and Democratic voters from 15 US states selected their candidate of choice as presidential nominee. Speaking post the results, President Biden said, “Tonight’s […]Read More

Russia has said that it is considering putting a nuclear power plant in cooperation with China according to a Reuters report. This was stated by the head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov. According to a report in RT news, Borisov who was appointed to head the Russian space agency in 2022, had claimed […]Read More

The US has sanctioned Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa, his wife, First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, and eight other senior officials, according to a report in Africa News. The United States’ Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has stated that the 11 individuals are being targeted for corruption and serious human rights abuses. They […]Read More