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BRUSSELS: Two Swedish nationals were shot to death and a third person was wounded in central Brussels on Monday night, and a man who identified himself as a member of the Islamic State claimed responsibility in a video posted online. The…
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CHICAGO: An Illinois man was charged with hate crimes for stabbing a 6-year-old Muslim boy to death and wounding his mother in an attack that targeted them for their religion and as a response to the war between Israel and Hamas. The boy…
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NEW YORK: Human Rights Watch accused Israel of using white phosphorus munitions in its military operations in Gaza and Lebanon, saying the use of such weapons puts civilians at risk of serious and long-term injury. Asked for comment on…
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JERUSALEM: Israel's military on Friday called for all civilians of Gaza City, more than 1 million people, to relocate south within 24 hours, as it amassed tanks near the Gaza Strip ahead of an expected ground invasion. "Now is a time for…
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A joint statement issued by 31 Harvard student organizations have held Israel ‘entirely responsible’ for Hamas attack that has killed at least 700 Israelis. A letter titled 'Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the…
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NEW YORK: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned Hamas attack against Israel, but said he was “deeply distressed” by the Jewish state’s subsequent imposition of a total siege on the Gaza Strip. “The humanitarian situation in…
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Israel has announced a “total” blockade of the already besieged Gaza Strip, including a ban on food and water, after Hamas carried out the biggest attack on the country in decades. Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said authorities…
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STOCKHOLM: American economic historian Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel economics prize for her work examining wage inequality between men and women, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. The prestigious award, formally known as…
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KABUL: More than 2,400 people were killed in earthquakes in Afghanistan, the Taliban administration said, in the deadliest tremors to rock the quake-prone mountainous country in years. The Saturday quakes in the west of the country hit…
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OSLO: Narges Mohammadi, a jailed Iranian women's rights advocate, won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. One of Iran's leading human rights activists, Mohammadi has campaigned for women's rights and the abolition of the death penalty.…
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STOCKHOLM: Norwegian author and dramatist Jon Fosse won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable." “His immense oeuvre written in Norwegian Nynorsk and spanning a variety of…
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NEW DELHI: An Indian news portal being investigated over alleged illegal funding said it does not publish propaganda and its funding had been received through appropriate banking channels. NewsClick said in a statement it has been…
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Britain's government proposed banning younger generations from ever buying cigarettes, a move that would give the country some of the world's toughest smoking rules. If passed into law, the smoking age would rise by one year every year,…
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STOCKHOLM: Scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots," which illuminate computer monitors and television screens and are used by doctors to…
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The United States House of Representatives has voted to remove Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy as a result of infighting within his own party. McCarthy was expelled from his role in a 216-210 vote on Tuesday evening, the first…
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