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03-04-2023 TOKYO: Scientists have filmed a fish swimming at an extraordinary depth in the ocean, making it the deepest observation of this nature that has ever been made. The species – a type of snailfish of the genus Pseudoliparis was filmed swimming at 8,336m (27,349ft). It was filmed by an …

03-04-2023 JERUSALEM: Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have protested in Tel Aviv for the 13th straight week against a controversial judicial overhaul that has now been suspended by the government while talks are held with party representatives. Carrying Israeli flags on Saturday, people marched through the centre of Israel’s commercial …

03-04-2023 HELSINKI: Voters in Finland are casting their ballots to elect members of a new parliament in what opinion polls suggest will be a tough competition for Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s Social Democrats Party (SDP) to keep its post. More than 2,400 candidates from 22 parties are vying for the …

03-04-2023 MEXICO CITY: A new report has identified failures in an investigation into the 2014 disappearance of 43 students in Mexico, one of the most high-profile mass kidnappings in recent history. The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), a panel of experts appointed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, …

03-04-2023 BOGOTA: Farmers in parts of Colombia say sales of coca, the raw ingredient used to make cocaine, have collapsed after a recent surge in production of the illicit drug. “We’ve seen a complete collapse of buyers,” said Andres Rojas, a coca farmer in the Catatumbo region who advocates for …

03-04-2023 VIRGINIA: In a highly unusual ruling, a state court judge in Virginia has voided a United States Marine’s adoption of an Afghan war orphan more than a year after he took the three-year-old girl away from the Afghan couple raising her but the girl’s future remains uncertain. For now, …

03-04-2023 DAMASCUS/ JERUSLEM: Israel has launched air raids on outposts in Syria’s Homs province, wounding at least five soldiers, according to the Syrian defence ministry. The raids early on Sunday were the third in recent days and came only a day after another attack on Friday that killed two Iranian …

02-04-2023 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump Jr, the son of former US president Donald Trump, has celebrated the early release of capitol rioter Jacob Chansley aja QAnon Shaman. A reintegration program has accepted QAnon Shaman, who was sentenced to one of the longest terms ever given to a rioter at the US …

02-04-2023 CAIRO: Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad in Cairo on Saturday, a first since Syria’s civil war broke out over a decade ago, Shoukry’s office said. The meeting comes amid amplified Arab engagement with the Damascus government which has been politically isolated in …

02-04-2023 TEHRAN: President Ebrahim Raisi has said that the hijab is “a legal matter” in Iran after a viral video appeared to show a man throwing yoghurt at two uncovered women in a shop near a holy Shia Muslim city. Growing numbers of women have defied authorities by discarding their …