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Gaza Genocide
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 Genocide
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.
Gaza Genocide
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.
Gaza Genocide
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...
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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.
Film and TV
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
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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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Opinion
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...
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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.
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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.
Opinion
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.
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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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Music
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.
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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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