Beijing’s zero-Covid policy have hit the economy and job market hard: according to the National Bureau of Statistics, the unemployment rate for those between the ages of 16 and 24…
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Continue ReadingYouth activists staged a coordinated “global climate strike” on Friday to highlight their fears about the effects of global warming. They took to the streets in Jakarta, Tokyo and Berlin…
Continue ReadingNewly elected Kenyan President William Ruto gave his maiden speech at the 77th session of the UN General Assembly on Wednesday highlighting the conventional threats to humanity posed by regional…
Continue ReadingRussia launched referendums on Friday aimed at annexing four occupied regions of Ukraine, raising the stakes in the seven-month-old war with what Kyiv called an illegal sham that saw residents…
Continue ReadingRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday rejected Western accusations at a UN Security Council session on abuses in Ukraine, calling instead for punishment of Kyiv’s government. #Ukraine #Russia #UN…
Continue ReadingThe Security Council meeting on Ukraine comes a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of Russians to fight in Ukraine, moved to annex…
Continue ReadingNigeria is battling its worst floods in a decade with more than 300 people killed in 2022 including at least 20 this week, authorities said on Monday, admitting the situation…
Continue ReadingUkraine will take center stage at the United Nations on Wednesday as world leaders warned of a new era of divisions over the war and other crises including climate change.…
Continue ReadingMoscow-backed separatists in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region and pro-Kremlin authorities in Ukraine’s Russian-controlled region of Kherson said Tuesday they will hold referendums on becoming part of Russia from September 23…
Continue ReadingPresident Volodymyr Zelensky last week announced the discovery of a "mass grave" in Izyum after it was recaptured from the Russians. At one burial site, more than 440 graves dating…
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Continue ReadingThree women, who were among 49 Ivorian soldiers detained in Mali, were released on September 3, state television said, around seven weeks since the arrest of the troops sparked a…
Continue ReadingPresident Emmanuel Macron starts a three-day visit Thursday to Algeria to help mend ties with the former French colony, which this year marks its 60th anniversary of independence. FRANCE 24’s…
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