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Saudi Arabia set to join anti-West bloc with China and Russia

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit -Sergei Bobylev/Spuntik/Kremlin Pool/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The Telegraph By Campbell MacDiarmid Saudi Arabia is joining an anti-Western influence bloc formed by Russia and China, in a sign of Riyadh’s deepening ties with Beijing as the US pivots away from the Middle East. The kingdom’s cabinet approved a plan to join the Shanghai Cooperation

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Kamala Harris visits Ghana ‘slave castle,’ says ‘history must be learned ‘

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks after touring the Cape Coast slave castle during her week-long trip to Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia, in Cape Coast, Ghana March 28, 2023. Photographer Francis Kokoroko By Reuters U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a speech to thousands of young Ghanaians on Tuesday in Accra on women’s empowerment,

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Ex-Somalia ambassador to the UN visited Israel

Credit to Photo/Twitter A strong discussion was caused by the visit of former Ambassador Idd Bedel Mohamed to Israel, where he participated in a conference on cooperation between Israel, the Arabs and Africa. Idd Bedel Mohamed, who once served as Somalia’s ambassador to the UN, participated in a meeting organized by the Jerusalem Center for

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‘We are all Chinese’, former Taiwan president says while visiting China

Former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou gestures as he arrives at an airport in Shanghai, China March 27, 2023. Ma Ying-jeou’s Office/Handout via Reuters By Reuters People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are ethnically Chinese and share the same ancestor, former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said on Tuesday at the start of a historic

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3 children, 3 teachers fatally shot in US city of Nashville school shooting

By Anadolu Agency Three children and three adults were gunned down in a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, law enforcement said Monday as the US grapples with yet another horrific school shooting. The heavily armed female shooter was killed during a shootout with a five-member police team that engaged her on the second

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Raila, Malema take supporters to streets, protest high cost of living

South Africa’s Julius Malema (left) and Kenya’s Raila Odinga. On March 20, 2023 they were at the centre of protests that went on concurrently in their respective countries: Credit to Photo/AFP By The East African Kenya’s Raila Odinga and South Africa’s Julius Malema, born in different backgrounds and at different times, are not political allies,

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Ugandan president confirms participation in 2nd Russia-Africa Summit

By Anadolu Agency Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said Saturday he will attend the upcoming Russia-Africa Summit and Economic Forum in St. Petersburg. “I will definitely come to St. Petersburg in July. In this issue, the political will is of crucial importance. It is not an issue of needs, but an issue of ideology. As long

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My family owned 1,000 slaves and profited from the trade: this is how I am trying to make amends

The bell of the Belmont Estate in Grenada, a former 17th-century slave plantation. Photograph: Georg Berg/Alamy The Guardian By Laura Trevelyan In 1833, when Britain finally abolished slavery, my ancestors were absentee owners of more than 1,000 enslaved people on the Caribbean island of Grenada. To the best of my knowledge, the Trevelyans never set

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Afghan pilot who served with British forces and fled to UK in small boat facing deportation to Rwanda

The Afghan pilot faces deportation to Rwanda after arriving in the UK on a small boat (supplied) The Independent By Holly Bancroft An Afghan war veteran who served alongside British armed forces is among those who have fled to the UK on small boats and are now being threatened with deportation to Rwanda. The air

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Putin says Moscow to station nuclear weapons in Belarus, first time since 1990s

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko during a meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia February 17, 2023. Sputnik/Vladimir Astapkovich/Kremlin via Reuters By Reuters Russia will station tactical nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus, President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday, marking the first time since the mid-1990s that Moscow

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