Sun 17 November 2024: In many African communities, fire hazards are a concern due to the materials used for building and daily activities such as cooking and heating. The risks are increased by the use of highly flammable materials in homes and the absence of fire prevention measures. A major fire in a Johannesburg building in 2023, for example, […]
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Sun 17 November 2024: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for a multi-sectoral action plan among all relevant Bangladesh ministries to respond to lead poisoning and strengthen laboratory capacity in the health and environment sectors to test heavy metals. Globally, Bangladesh ranks fourth in the number of children affected by lead pollution, and […]
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A man holds a banner as Ultra-Orthodox Jewish (Haredi) group gathers to protest against conscription in front of the Tel HaShomer military branch Tel Aviv, Israel on August 6, 2024 [Matan Golan – Anadolu Agency] Sun 17 November 2024: Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid called Sunday for denying government funding and passports to ultra-Orthodox Jews […]
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Sun 17 November 2024: Will the next human to walk on the Moon speak English or Mandarin? In all, 12 Americans landed on the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972. Now, both the US and China are preparing to send humans back there this decade. However, the US lunar programme is delayed, in part because the spacesuits […]
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Sat 16 November 2024: Afghanistan’s currency, the afghani (AFN), has strengthened considerably against Iran’s toman in the past year, Iranian media reported. According to Iranian-based financial website gheymat360.com, the afghani has strengthened by 40%, recording the strongest growth rate among foreign currencies on the Iranian forex market. Currently one afghani is sold for 992 tomans […]
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Sat 16 November 2024: Unredacted court documents released on Thursday (Nov 14) show that NSO Group, the company behind the Pegasus spyware, admitted to developing exploits to hack into the phones of around 1,400 WhatsApp users in 2019. This operation, according to WhatsApp, violated both federal and state laws. The information came to light as […]
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Sat 16 November 2024: Journalists Megan O’Toole and Jillian Kestler-D’Amours win award for report on Indigenous fight for water rights in US. Al Jazeera English online has been awarded a top prize at the 29th annual Amnesty International Canada Media Awards for a report on the Indigenous struggle for water rights in the southwestern United […]
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Fri 15 November 2024: The population of both savannah and forest elephant species has declined sharply in the past half a century across the sub-Saharan African region, according to a research report released in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. Published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the report, which was released Monday evening, […]
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Daughter of the late slain civil rights leader Malcolm X Ilyasah Shabazz. Sat 16 November 2024: The family of Malcolm X, a militant civil-rights leader who was assassinated almost 60 years ago, filed a $100-million federal lawsuit on Friday that accuses the FBI, CIA and New York Police Department of allowing his murder to […]
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Fri 15 November 2024: A joint British-Iraqi archaeological team has identified the likely site of the seventh-century Battle of Al-Qadisiyyah, a decisive event in early Islamic history, thanks to declassified 1970s US spy satellite imagery, AP reports. The Battle of Al-Qadisiyyah, fought in 637CE in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), marked a crucial victory for Arab Muslim forces of […]
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