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Saudi Arabia set to allow women to start driving

Daily Dispatch September 26, 2017

Saudi Arabia women will soon have the right to drive, due to a royal decree issued by King Salman. BBC reports that a royal decree issued on Tuesday,  by King Salman ordered that a ministerial body would implement the change by June 2018, following a consultation over the next 30 days. Saudi

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Former president Gbagbo to remain in detention for trial

Daily Dispatch September 26, 2017

The International Criminal Court on Tuesday said judges had ordered former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo to remain in detention during his war crimes trial. Judges said Gbagbo presented a flight risk and has a “network of supporters” that could obstruct or endanger trial proceedings if he were released. Gbagbo’s defence team had requested provisional […]

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US imposes sanctions on North Korean banks, executives

Daily Dispatch September 26, 2017

The US imposed sanctions on eight North Korean banks and 26 executives on Tuesday, ratcheting up pressure on the country amid increasingly bellicose exchanges with Pyongyang over its nuclear program. “This further advances our strategy to fully isolate North Korea in order to achieve our broader objectives of a peaceful and denuclearized Korean peninsula,” US […]

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BREAKING: Angola swears in new president, Joao Lourenco

Daily Dispatch September 26, 2017

Jose Eduardo dos Santos’s 38-year reign over Angola finally came to an end Tuesday when his hand-picked successor Joao Lourenco was inaugurated as president at a ceremony in Luanda. Lourenco read an oath in which he vowed “on my honour to devote myself” to the role of president, as he took power after the ruling […]

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Dubai launches world’s first self-flying taxis

Daily Dispatch September 26, 2017

The world’s first self-flying taxi was launched at the Jumeirah Beach Park in Dubai, United Arab Emirates today. The Autonomous Air Taxi (AAT) of Dubai was the brainchild of  Dubai’s Road and Transport Authority (RTA). According to Dubai Media Office, the two-seater AAT, capable of transporting people without human intervention or a pilot, has been […]

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India Unveils $2.5b Plan To Electrify All Households By End 2018

Daily Dispatch September 26, 2017

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched a $2.5 billion project to electrify the country’s households by the end of 2018. More than 40 million households – about a quarter of all in the country – are yet to be electrified and about 300 million of India’s 1.3 billion people are still not hooked […]