ANTI-MUSLIM HATE IN UK ‘HITS HIGHEST LEVEL IN MORE THAN A DECADE’

Sun 06 October 2024: Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate in the UK has risen to the highest total in more than a decade, according to a charity monitoring such incidents. Tell Mama said it recorded 4,971 incidents of anti-Muslim hate and discrimination in the year since the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel. The incidents, to the end of […]

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ITALY STRENGTHENS PENALTIES TO COMBAT ASSAULTS ON HOSPITAL STAFF

Sun 06 October 2024: The Italian government Friday passed a decree toughening measures against people attacking health staff in hospitals across the country. The move is meant to address a surge in assaults on doctors, nurses, and other professionals in the public health system. Key countermeasures included allowing for arresting perpetrators on the scene of […]

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ELON MUSK TO JOIN TRUMP FOR RALLY AT SITE OF FIRST ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

Sat 05 October 2024: Elon Musk has said he is going to join Donald Trump for an election rally at the site of a July assassination attempt on the former president’s life. Musk, 53, announced on Friday that he will appear at the event in Butler, Pennsylvania, the following day. Trump, who served as the United States president from 2017 to 2021, […]

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OVER 700,000 NOW DISPLACED IN HAITI AMID ESCALATING CRISIS, UN REPORTS

Fri 04 October 2024: More than 700,000 people are currently internally displaced in Haiti, marking a 22% increase since June, according to the latest figures from the International Organization for Migration, shared by UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric. Over half of the displaced population are children, highlighting the severe impact of escalating gang violence and the […]

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OVER 1,000 KILLED, 740,000 DISPLACED BY FLOODS AFFECTING 5M IN WEST, CENTRAL AFRICA: UN

Fri 04 October 2024: More than 1,000 people have died and at least 740,000 displaced as floods wreak havoc across West and Central Africa, affecting over 5 million people in 16 countries, the UN said on Thursday. Most parts of the central and west African region as well as the Sahel have been experiencing severe […]

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THOUSANDS OF SHIPPING CONTAINERS LOST AT SEA EACH YEAR, CAUSING HAZARDS

Fri 04 October 2024: Some 250 million containers cross the oceans every year, but not everything arrives as planned — more than 20,000 shipping containers have tumbled overboard in the last decade and a half, according to the World Shipping Council (WSC), an industry group. “Their varied contents have washed onto shorelines, poisoned fisheries and […]

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CAGE INTERNATIONAL TO LAUNCH WAR CRIMES COMPLAINT AGAINST FORMER MINISTERS

Fri 04 October 2024: CAGE International has announce its intention to file a war crimes complaint against former UK government ministers Robert Jenrick and Ben Wallace. The move comes in response to Jenrick’s recent campaign video, in which he states that British Special Forces are “killing rather than capturing ‘terrorists’” to prevent their release under human […]

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