Ibtihaj Muhammad is an American sabre fencer and member of the United States fencing team (FILE PHOTO) Tue 30 April 2024: With the Paris Olympic Games around the corner, a huge controversy has broken out with regard to the dress of the participating athletes. It is learnt that France has decided to allow the […]
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Mon 29 April 2024: Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu said on Friday that the main threat for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) members emanates from Afghanistan where international terrorist groups find shelter due to unstable and indefinite political situation. Speaking at a meeting of the SCO defense ministers in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana, Shoygu said Washington […]
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A female green sea turtle makes her way back to the sea after laying her eggs on Chagar Hutang beach [Patrick Lee/Al Jazeera] Mon 29 April 2024: Redang Island, Malaysia – Under a full moon, a bulbous creature emerges from the South China Sea onto a quiet beach on the Malaysian island of Redang. Watched […]
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Mon 29 April 2024: The Japanese yen has hit a 34-year low against the US dollar. The yen fell to 160.17 per dollar on Monday, its lowest level since April 1990, sparking speculation that Japanese officials could intervene to support the currency for the first time since late 2022. Though the Bank of Japan (BOJ) […]
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Sun 28 April 2024: Bangladesh experienced its longest heat wave in recorded history this April with forecasts showing no improvement for the rest of the month, according to meteorologists. Md. Bazlur Rashid, a meteorologist at the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, told Anadolu that heat waves swept across the entire country for 27 days straight until Saturday. […]
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Sat 27 April 2024: Thirty antiquities that were stolen, sold, or illegally shifted by networks of American antiquities traders and traffickers have been returned to Cambodia and Indonesia, according to New York City prosecutors. Alvin Bragg, the district attorney for Manhattan, stated in a statement on Friday that the artifacts were worth at $3 million […]
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Fri 26 April 2024: The Taliban Acting Minister of Interior Affairs Sirajuddin Haqqani has said in a meeting with a delegation from Malaysia in Kabul that Malaysia is an advanced country and that Afghanistan should use is experiences. According to a statement released by the Interior Ministry, Haqqani, in the meeting on Thursday, emphasized that […]
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Fri 26 April 2024: The court was hearing WhatsApp’s 2021 petitions challenging a provision of the 2021 Information Technology Rules for social media intermediaries, requiring them to identify the first originator of information. New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp told the Delhi high court on Thursday (April 25) that it will effectively close operations in India and leave […]
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Tue 23 April 2024: India’s cut and polished diamond exports in 2023/24 plunged 27.5 per cent from a year ago to a $15.97 billion due to sluggish demand from the United States, China and the United Arab Emirates, a leading trade body said on Monday. The fall in exports forced the world’s biggest diamond polisher […]
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Tue 23 April 2024: Pakistan has officially classified the Iran-backed Shia militia, Zainebiyoun Brigade, as a terrorist organisation, amid the ongoing tensions with Iran and the group’s potential risk to national security. According to the American news outlet, The Media Line, Pakistan’s Ministry of Interior Affairs released a public notification on 11 April which announced the […]
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