21-09-2022 UNITED NATIONS: Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday for the first face-to-face talks between leaders of the US-allied nations since 2008, Lapid’s office said. Israel-Turkey relations, long-frosty amid feuding over the Palestinian cause, have …
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21-09-2022 TEHRAN/ DUBAI: Protests raged for a fourth straight day across Iran on Tuesday and authorities said three people had been killed during unrest over the death of a young woman in police custody. The death last week of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini who was arrested by morality police for “unsuitable …
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21-09-2022 UNITED NATIONS: One person is estimated to be dying of hunger every four seconds, over 200 NGOs warned Tuesday, urging decisive international action to “end the spiralling global hunger crisis”. In an open letter addressing world leaders gathering in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, 238 organisations …
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21-09-2022 LONDON/ MOSCOW: Moscow has likely moved its Kilo-class submarines from the Crimean peninsula to southern Russia over fears of them being struck by long-range Ukrainian fire, according to British intelligence. In a daily briefing on Tuesday, the United Kingdom’s defence ministry said those submarines had “almost certainly” been moved …
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21-09-2022 PARIS: A French court on Tuesday found three police officers guilty of manslaughter over the death of a Black man in Paris in 2015. Each was sentenced to a 15-month suspended jail term, a judge said. Amadou Koume died after he was pinned to the ground by officers in …
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21-09-2022 WEST BANK/ JENIN/ GAZA/ JERUSALEM: A joint investigation by a London-based multidisciplinary research group and a Palestinian rights group has uncovered further evidence that refutes Israel’s account that the killing of veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was a mistake. Forensic Architecture and Al-Haq said that Abu Akleh’s …
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20-09-2022 UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Monday that unequal education was quickly dividing the planet as he sought to keep development on the agenda ahead of a week of diplomacy focused on global crises. The UN chief called a special summit on education a day before …
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20-09-2022 MEXICO CITY: A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck western Mexico on Monday on the anniversary of two devastating temblors, killing at least two people, damaging buildings, knocking out power and sending residents of Mexico City scrambling outside for safety. Two died in the Pacific port of Manzanillo, authorities said, one …
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20-09-2022 TEHRAN/ DUBAI: Two men were killed among dozens hurt in Iran on Monday during protests over the death of a young woman while she was in the custody of the morality police, a Kurdish rights group said, as demonstrations ignited by the incident went on for the third day. …
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20-09-2022 MARYLAND: A Maryland judge has vacated the 2000 murder conviction of Adnan Syed after prosecutors said there were two other possible suspects in the killing of his former girlfriend who were never disclosed to the defence at trial. The case gained national attention when the podcast “Serial” raised doubts …
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