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United Kingdom: The highest officials in the United Kingdom have launched the Gaashan project to support survivors of gender-based violence in Somalia. Sir Philip Barton, the UK’s top diplomat, launched the Gaashaan project in anticipation of International Women’s Day, along with British Ambassador to Somalia, Mike Nithavrianakis, and Somali Minister for Women, Human Rights and Development, Amina Hassan Ali. This project will provide aid to survivors of gender-based violence in Somalia. The UK government has committed £15 million to establish Gaashaan, a project aimed at helping survivors of gender-based violence in Somalia. The project, which means “shield” in Somali, will run…

Ukraine: Military intelligence of Ukraine has reported that Ukrainian naval drones have sunk a Russian warship off inhabited Crimea. They stated that it’s the latest in an incredible win over the once-feared Black Sea fleet. Recent reports stated that a country without a navy managed to defeat a supposedly powerful Russian fleet. This achievement is not only significant in military terms, but it also provides a much-needed psychological boost to Ukraine. Morale in Kyiv has been low due to the lack of international support, and this victory has come at a critical time. As per Ukraine’s claims, a special operations team…

Panama: The Electoral Tribunal of Panama has cancelled the candidacy of former President Ricardo Martinelli in the presidential elections to be held in May. Alfredo Junca, the president of the body, announced a decision that ended Martinelli’s hopes of being re-elected. This decision comes a month after the former President’s failed attempt to seek asylum in the Nicaraguan embassy to avoid imprisonment on corruption charges. Martinelli governed as the president of the country from 2009 to 2014. Last year, the 71-year-old supermarket tycoon was sentenced to over 10 years in prison and fined $19 million for using public funds to…

Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that children are dying of starvation in northern Gaza. Over the weekend, WHO visited the Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan hospitals for the first time since early October, according to the Director-General of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The dire situation in Gaza was mentioned by Ghebreyesus in a social media post. Ten children died due to a lack of food and ‘severe malnutrition’ and many hospital buildings were destroyed, the director-general noted in his post. Several children have died at Kamal Adwan Hospital from malnutrition and dehydration, according to Hamas’ health ministry in…

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California: Former senior executives of Twitter have taken legal action against Elon Musk and X Corp. They claim that they are entitled to severance payments totalling more than $128 million. Parag Agrawal, the former CEO of Twitter, along with the company’s Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, Chief Legal Counsel Vijaya Gadde, and General Counsel Sean Edgett filed a lawsuit, claiming that they were fired without cause on the day Musk concluded the acquisition of Twitter in 2022. The company was later rebranded as X by Musk. According to the executives’s accusation, Musk didn’t want to pay their severance. They said that,…

Europe: Apple has been fined a sum of €1.8 billion ($1.5 billion) by the EU as a penalty for the curtailing competition from rival music streaming services such as Spotify. The European Commission imposed a fine that is four times higher than expected on tech companies that abuse their dominant position in the market for phones and online services. According to Margrethe Vestager, the European competition commissioner, a slight fine would have been nothing more than the equivalent of ‘a parking fine’ and was designed to act as ‘a deterrent’ to such preparations by Apple and others. “I think it is…

United Kingdom: The UK government has granted £1.5 million to the International Planned Parenthood Federation to aid Ukrainian women and girls. The services aid in safeguarding vulnerable people by providing access to essential sexual and reproductive health services, like mobile clinics and safe abortion care. Since July 2022, over 20,000 individuals have received medical care, and over 100,000 people have received sexual health information due to this funding. The United Kingdom promised to provide £4.7 billion in non-military support to Ukraine after a full-scale invasion began. This includes £357 million in humanitarian aid to address the specific needs of women…

United States: The SpaceX rocket has lifted off from Florida carrying three US astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut headed for the International Space Station (ISS) to embark on a six-month science mission in Earth orbit. A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket, carrying an autonomous Crew Dragon capsule called Endeavor, launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral on Florida’s Atlantic coast. The live NASA-SpaceX webcast showed the rocketship rising 25 stories from the takeoff tower, its nine Merlin engines lighting up the night sky in clouds of steam and a red fireball. During the launch, the rocket consumed 700,000 gallons of…

Australia: Penny Wong, Australia’s Foreign Minister, has announced the allocation of 64 million Australian dollars ($41.8 million) for maritime security at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) special summit in Melbourne. While discoursing at a forum on maritime cooperation, Wong said that, “The countries of our region rely on oceans, seas and rivers for livelihoods and commerce, including free and open sea lanes in the South China Sea.” The Minister didn’t mention the countries to which funding would be provided. However, Wong appreciated the initiatives taken by Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines to ‘establish their maritime boundaries.’ China…