16-03-2024 CHICAGO: Authorities in Chicago said Wednesday that an 11-year-old boy was killed and a pregnant woman was critically wounded after a person launched an attack on the pair in the Edgewater neighborhood in North Side. Police said that they arrested a suspect without releasing any information. The law enforcers …
Read More »More Israeli strikes kill dozens Gazans awaiting aid
16-03-2024 GAZA CITY: At least 29 Palestinians were killed while awaiting aid in two separate Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Gaza’s health ministry said. In the first incident, Palestinian health officials in the Hamas-ruled strip said eight people were killed in an airstrike on an aid distribution …
Read More »Trump becomes emotional as court battles rage on
16-03-2024 GEORGIA: Republican nominee for White House and former President Donald Trump has named himself one of the worst-treated person in the country’s history referring to his legal troubles, amid a Georgia judge recently threw out six of 41 criminal charges against him Wednesday. While speaking in an interview with …
Read More »Japan same-sex marriage ban ruled unconstitutional again
15-03-2024 TOKYO: Two more rulings in Japanese district courts have added weight to the push for same-sex marriage to be legalized. This week, courts in Tokyo and Sapporo ruled the nation’s current ban was “unconstitutional”, in line with previous landmark verdicts. The rulings in separate cases found that the ban …
Read More »‘60 migrants die in dinghy in Mediterranean’
15-03-2024 ROME: At least 60 migrants are dead after a dinghy sunk in the Mediterranean Sea. Some 25 survivors were picked up by the Ocean Viking, a vessel operated by the European humanitarian group SOS Mediterranee. Those pulled from the sea told their rescuers that they had set off from …
Read More »Fear & chaos await Haitian migrants forced back over border
15-03-2024 PORT-AU-PRINCE: At the Dajabon border crossing between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, a constant stream of trucks pulls up carrying undocumented Haitian migrants, who are being deported back to their home country. They are being sent to a nation in the grip of its most acute humanitarian crisis since …
Read More »US House passes bill that could ban TikTok nationwide
15-03-2024 WASHINGTON: The United States House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a bill that could eventually ban the social media platform TikTok in the country, in its latest salvo against both China and big tech. The bill received resoundingly bipartisan support, with vote of 352 to 65 in favour. It …
Read More »Israeli strike in Lebanon kills ‘significant’ Hamas member
15-03-2024 BEIRUT: An Israeli drone strike targeted a car in southern Lebanon near the coastal city of Tyre, killing a member of the Palestinian militant Hamas group and a civilian. Since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in Gaza on Oct. 7, Israeli strikes have killed or wounded several ranking members of …
Read More »Protests in India against ‘anti-Muslim’ citizenship law
15-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Sporadic protests have erupted across India against the implementation of the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), sparking renewed concerns about its discriminatory impact on Muslims. Narendra Modi government faces backlash as demonstrations broke out in various states, including Assam and Tamil Nadu, just …
Read More »UN seeking $850m for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
15-03-2024 UNITED NATIONS/ DHAKA: The United Nations is calling for more donations for Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh. In its annual response plan to the crisis, the UN appealed for $852.4m to provide food and other aid to the mostly Muslim Rohingya refugees and their host communities. Bangladesh …
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