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Gaza infant, saved from dead mother’s womb, passes away

A premature Palestinian baby, who was saved from her mother’s womb after she was killed in an Israeli attack in the Gaza Strip, has died after days in an...

Gaza protests in US universities: Over 550 students arrested so far

Around 550 arrests have been made in the last week across major US universities as police crackdown on peaceful and iconic protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.

Half of Gaza’s population ‘starving’, food relief a ‘drop in the ocean’ of need: WFP

The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has said half of Gaza’s population – estimated to be some 2.3 million people – are starving.

After Columbia, Pro-Palestine protests expand to major US universities

Students of major universities in the United States have launched pro-Palestinian protests demanding divestment from companies involved in...

Leicester Ram Navami procession: Muslim groups seek police action against Hindutva mob for Islamophobic chants

Multiple Muslim organisations lodged complaints with Leicestershire police seeking action against a Hindutva mob for their Islamophobic chants raised during Ram Navami procession.

Actor Will Smith banned from attending Oscars for 10 years

Will Smith will not be allowed to attend the Academy Awards for the next 10 years, as a result of his slapping comedian Chris Rock on stage during this year's Oscar ceremony

28 years after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, ‘stain of shame endures’

The UN paid tribute on Thursday to the one million people who were murdered in 100 days during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, during which moderate Hutu, Twa and others who opposed the genocide, were also killed.
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What Elon Musk’s US$3 billion Twitter deal means?

Hamza Mudassir, Cambridge Judge Business School The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, is now Twitter’s largest shareholder after acquiring a 9.2% stake in the social media platform for just under...

UN General Assembly votes to suspend Russia from Human Rights Council

The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on Thursday calling for Russia to be suspended from the Human Rights Council. 
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Pakistan court rules Imran Khan no-confidence vote block is unconstitutional

Pakistan Supreme Court has announced that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s move to dissolve Parliament was illegal, and is ordering that the house be restored and that Khan was a no-confidence motion on Saturday.

Zelenskyy calls for Russian oil embargo

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on Western nations to agree to an embargo on Russian oil.
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Ukraine: Remains of child found in burned pile of bodies in Bucha

The Associated Press said its reporters saw “the small, blackened foot of a child” in the tangle of a pile of six burned corpses in Bucha.

What the invasion of Ukraine means for the IPCC’s latest climate change report

Myles Allen, University of Oxford and Hugh Helferty, Queen's University, Ontario The UN’s new IPCC report on the mitigation of climate change says that immediate and deep emissions reductions are...
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70-year-old Sikh assaulted in New York; Indian Consulate, Sikh, Muslim groups condemn

A 70-year-old Sikh man Nirmal Singh who is visiting from Punjab, India, was punched in the unprovoked assault on Sunday morning in New York.

Bucha killings raise ‘serious’ questions about possible war crimes: UN human rights chief 

Senior UN officials have echoed the Secretary-General’s call for an independent investigation into the killing of scores of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, following the emergence this past weekend of graphic images from the suburb of the capital, Kyiv. 
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First Pakistani artist to win Grammy: Listen to Arooj Aftab’s song ‘Mohabbat’

Pakistani vocalist Arooj Aftab on Sunday scored her first Grammy, winning a prestigious trophy for her song 'Mohabbat' in the Best Global Performance category.

99 percent of world’s population now breathing polluted air, warns WHO

An astonishing 99 percent of the world’s population breathes polluted air that exceeds internationally approved limits, with negative health impacts kicking in at much lower levels than previously thought, UN medical scientists said on Monday.
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