11-10-2022 LONDON: The British government released its latest hate crime statistics for England and Wales (2021-22) with the key finding that hate crimes recorded by the police have increased by 26% in the year ending March 2022 compared with the previous year. It is important to note the caveat that …
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11-10-2022 Bureau Report + BBC NEW DELHI/ MAHARASHTRA: A village in India has decided to get rid of two modern addictions TV and the internet by reducing the use of both by a couple of hours every day. The Maharashtra village sounds a siren at 7 pm in the evening …
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10-10-2022 TEHRAN: Students in Tehran told President Ebrahim Raisi to “get lost” on Saturday, as protests over Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody enter their fourth week. Meanwhile, two people were killed as security forces shot at protesters in the Iranian Kurdish cities of Sanandaj and Saqez, rights …
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10-10-2022 MANAGUA: Hurricane Julia has made landfall on the eastern coast of Central America. Julia passed the Colombian island of San Andres before hitting the coast of Nicaragua just north of Bluefields with maximum sustained winds of 85 miles per hour (140 kilometers per hour), the US National Hurricane Center …
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10-10-2022 PORT-AU-PRINCE: Haitian officials requested foreign security assistance on Friday in a document signed by Prime Minister Ariel Henry warning of “the risk of a major humanitarian crisis.” The document authorized Henry to request international troops to help reign in growing lawlessness in the country. Henry requested “the immediate deployment …
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10-10-2022 MEXICO CITY: At least 57 students were poisoned by an unidentified substance in a rural secondary school in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, according to local authorities. The mass poisoning on Friday was the third at Chiapas schools reported in local media over the past two weeks, spooking …
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10-10-2022 TEHRAN: School-girls chanted slogans, workers went on strike and street clashes erupted across Iran as protests over the death of Mahsa Amini entered a fourth week in defiance of a bloody crackdown. Anger flared after the 22-year-old Iranian-Kurd’s death on September 16, three days after she was arrested by …
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10-10-2022 VIENNA: Austrians have started voting in a presidential election expected to return incumbent Alexander Van der Bellen, after a campaign in which he has cast himself as the stable option in uncertain times. Campaigning on a slogan of “clarity”, Van der Bellen is widely tipped to clinch a second …
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09-10-2022 MADRID: A shocking video footage of an incident from Spain wherein a group of male university students are seen howling sexist insults at their female counterparts in the neighboring block have drawn massive outrage, with many government figures, including Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, condemning the behaviour. The video clip …
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09-10-2022 BERLIN: An act of “sabotage” targeting communication infrastructure was to blame for a major disruption on the German railway network. Federal police are investigating the incident, Minister of the Interior and Community Nancy Faeser said on Saturday, adding the motive for it was unclear. The apparent attack brought train …
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