Putin is attending China’s Belt and Road summit for a third time but the meeting could be overshadowed by wars. Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Beijing ahead of a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday. Xi invited his “dear friend” Putin to China’s third Belt and Road Initiative forum where the…
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800 Children Killed in Gaza as Protests Around the World Demand Israel Cease Fire.
Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip for an eighth day in a row as the besieged Palestinian enclave faces a growing humanitarian catastrophe. Israel has ordered 1.1 million people to move to southern Gaza within 24 hours, raising fears that an Israeli ground operation is imminent. Israel says as many as 300,000 Israeli troops are amassed near…
Egypt warned Israel days before Hamas struck, US committee chairman says
Israel was warned by Egypt of potential violence three days before Hamas’ deadly cross-border raid, a US congressional panel chairman has said. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee head Michael McCaul told reporters of the alleged warning. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu described the reports as “absolutely false”. Israeli intelligence services are under scrutiny for their…
Elon Musk asks to see “list of violations’ after EU tells him to tackle spread of disinformation about Israel-Hamas Conflict on X
The struggle to identify reliable sources for news about the war was exacerbated over the weekend by Mr Musk, who on Sunday posted the names of two accounts he said were “good” for “following the war in real-time”. Elon Musk has told an EU chief to send him a list of the “violations” he is…
Israel-Hamas conflict live: Fighting rages as Hezbollah launches strikes; 700 Israelites Dead.
In pictures: Buildings in Gaza reduced to rubble Images emerge showing the level of destruction caused by Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip. A man takes a solar panel from a mosque destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip [Yousef Masoud/AP]A Palestinians man sits in the rubble of a building after…
After almost 3 decades of service, UN Career Diplomat chooses Uganda as New Home to Promote PanAfrican values, Youth Entrepreneurs and Solutions on Global Stage.
By Earnest Kivumbi Benjamin KAMPALA- H.E Rosa Malango, former United Nations Resident Cordinator to Uganda has returned to Kampala to take on a new mandate . In statement seen by HICGI News Agency, Malango says; After almost thirty years of service with the United Nations, I have begun a newphase as an international senior adviser…
Putin Holds Talks with South Sudan’s Salvar Kiir
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said relations between Russia and South Sudan were developing “intensively”. Speaking at a meeting with the South Sudan President Salva Kiir in Moscow, Putin noted Russia was one of the first countries to recognise the sovereignty and independence of South Sudan. “I must say we believe that we have…
Pregnant ‘dwarf’-like creature found on tree in Uganda is ‘cryptic’ new species
Nestled into the woodlands of Uganda sat a “dwarf”-like creature. The pregnant animal waited out the night on a tree trunk —or tried to. Passing scientists spotted the pregnant animal — and discovered a “cryptic” new species. Researchers ventured into the woodlands of the Karamoja region of the central African country several times in 2015,…
