Sun 11 March 2021: In a first, the UAE leader has named its first female astronaut for a space programme. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Saturday announced it had chosen the Arab world’s “first female astronaut” to take part in its ambitious space program. UAE Vice President and Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid […]
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Sun 11 March 2021: Bitcoin’s value spiked above the $60,000 zone to approach record highs over the weekend, breaking out of a two-week tight range and propelled by talk of constrained new supplies against evidence of wider adoption. The world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency hit $61,222.22 on Saturday, its highest in nearly a month. It […]
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Sun 11 April 2021: A giant new statue of Christ being constructed in southern Brazil will rise even higher than the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue that overlooks Rio de Janeiro. A head and outstretched arms were added this week to the statue, which has been under construction since 2019 in the city of Encantado, […]
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Sat 10 April 2021: Amnesty International released its annual report on Wednesday, April 7, with a section on human rights abuses in Iran. In this report, with a sharp criticism of the human rights situation in Iran, it announced that the Iranian government in 2020 was increasingly using executions as a tool for political suppression of protesters […]
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Sat 10 April 2021: A 26-year-old woman was stabbed to death by her husband at a market in Delhi on Saturday afternoon, police said. The man stabbed her 25 times over suspicion of her having an illicit affair, they said. The chilling footage of the incident shows Harish repeatedly stabbing his wife, Nilu, in public […]
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Sat 10 April 2021: Donald Trump’s top diplomat Mike Pompeo has been hired to appear on Fox News as a “contributor,” the conservative cable news channel said Thursday. “I intend to give viewers a candid, no-nonsense look at geopolitics, international relations and the America First policies that helped chart the course for unprecedented American prosperity […]
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Sat 10 April 2021: EU institutions have been toning down Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s description as a “dictator” by Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, AKIpress News Agency reported on Friday. During a meeting held in the Turkish capital Ankara on Tuesday, European Union (EU) Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, one of the two visiting EU leaders, […]
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Sat 10 April 2021: American rapper and actor Earl Simmons, known by the stage name DMX or Dark Man X, died on Friday, his record label said, after he suffered a heart attack during what media reports said was a drug overdose. He was 50 years old. The Grammy-nominated performer died after suffering “catastrophic cardiac […]
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Sat 10 April 2021: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat has tested positive for coronavirus, the organisation tweeted on its official handle. Mr Bhagwat, 70, has been showing commons symptoms of coronavirus infection, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) tweeted. “He is currently having common symptoms of COVID-19 and has been admitted to Kingsway Hospital in […]
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Sat 10 April 2021: Facebook users may not be learning about jobs for which they are qualified because the company’s tools can disproportionately direct ads to a particular gender “beyond what can be legally justified”, university researchers said in a study published on Friday. According to the study, in one of three examples that generated […]
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