25-02-2024 HATFIELD: When she arrived in England almost two years ago, Mila Panchenko thought her months-long journey from the devastated Ukrainian city of Mariupol was over and she could settle down but, after moving home four times since then, the 55-year-old Ukrainian has been declared homeless and her future is …
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24-02-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ SHAMBHU: Indian farmers demanding higher prices for their crops burned effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other ministers on Friday as they sought to expand their protest against his government months before elections. Thousands of farmers began a ‘Delhi Chalo’ (Let’s go …
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24-02-2024 JERUSALEM: The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel says it has gathered evidence Hamas gunmen “systematically and intentionally” committed sexual crimes during the 7 October attacks. A report by the umbrella organization describes “identical patterns” of sexual violence at multiple locations. These allegedly included violent rapes of women …
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24-02-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY: A 28-year-old police officer has been charged with murdering missing Australian TV personality Jesse Baird and his boyfriend Luke Davies. Detectives launched a frantic search on Wednesday after the couple’s bloodied items were found in a bin near Sydney. Beaumont Lamarre-Condon, Baird’s ex-boyfriend, was …
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24-02-2024 LONDON, ONTARIO: A Canadian white supremacist who deliberately ran over four members of a Muslim family has been sentenced to life in prison for the murders. Nathaniel Veltman, 23, was convicted in November of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder for the attack that …
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24-02-2024 EDINBURGH: Scientists have revealed a new, remarkably complete fossil, a 16ft (5m)-long aquatic reptile from the Triassic period. The creature dates back 240 million years and has been dubbed a “dragon” because of its extremely long neck. It is called Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, a species that was originally identified back …
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24-02-2024 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE/ KARACHI: In Pakistan, the internet has become a battleground. Not one fought with tanks and missiles but with throttled bandwidth and targeted shutdowns. Less than two months into 2024, Pakistan’s 128 million internet users have repeatedly been plunged into …
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24-02-2024 UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has sanctioned the leaders of six armed groups fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo amid escalating violence in the country’s restive northeastern region. “We are pleased that as of today, six additional armed group leaders will be designated by …
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24-02-2024 GAZA CITY: Israeli army shelling of residential homes in central Gaza killed at least 40 Palestinians, local authorities say, adding that they hold the US administration in addition to Israel responsible for the “ongoing crimes”. “We call on the free world to immediately put an end to this war …
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23-02-2024 HOUSTON: An American company has made history by becoming the first commercial outfit to put a spacecraft on the Moon. Houston-based Intuitive Machines landed its Odysseus robot near the lunar South Pole. It took some minutes for controllers to confirm the craft was down, but eventually a signal was …
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