Wed 30 October 2024: Missing children and unmarked graves at Indian Residential Schools in Canada should be probed by a national commission, said a final report released Tuesday. The report’s author, Kimberly Murray, said the commission should have a 20-year mandate and be led by Indigenous representatives. Murray, flanked by Indigenous residential school survivors, unveiled […]
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Wed 30 October 2024: Tragic flooding in Spain’s Valencia region has led to the loss of 51 lives, as reported by the Interior Ministry’s Center for Integrated Operational Coordination. The storm, labeled as the most severe in the past century, unleashed devastation reminiscent only of major storms from the 1980s, according to Spain’s meteorology agency. […]
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Wed 30 October 2024: The quest for life on Mars has revealed fresh information, indicating that the red planet was likely habitable until recently. A new report suggests that Mars was likely teeming with life billions of years ago. Scientists have been searching for evidence of life on the neighboring planet, and if it did […]
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Tue 29 October 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a new nuclear training exercise on Tuesday, saying Moscow needed to have its nuclear forces ready for use. Russia’s latest round of nuclear drills is necessary to maintain nuclear parity and the balance of power in the world, but is not an indication that Moscow wants a new […]
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Tue 29 October 2024: Hundreds of Syrians in the Netherlands have protested outside The Hague against the Dutch government’s plan to potentially declare parts of Syria under Bashar Al-Assad’s regime as “safe”. Under a deal agreed by the Dutch government’s coalition parties last week, Amsterdam is set to abolish permanent residency status for new refugees […]
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Tue 29 October 2024: North Korea sent around 10,000 troops to eastern Russia and to fight in Ukraine within “the next several weeks,” the Pentagon said Monday. “We have seen reports from over the weekend indicating that DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) soldiers have started arriving in western Russia. “We believe that the DPRK […]
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Tue 29 October 2024: Far-right British Islamophobic activist, Tommy Robinson, on Monday began serving an 18-month sentence for contempt of court by repeating libellous claims against a Syrian refugee, local media reported, Anadolu Agency reports. Robinson, 41, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was accused of “thumbing his nose at the court” in front of millions of […]
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Mon 28 October 2024: A Catholic priest in Germany was sentenced to four years in prison on Monday for sexual contact with minors via the internet. The Fulda regional court found the 43-year-old priest guilty of engaging in sexual online chats with minors between September 2021 and July 2022. The priest was accused of contacting […]
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Mon 28 October 2024: Former US President Donald Trump holds a narrow national lead of 0.1%, and remains on top in seven key battleground states by an average of 0.9% with just one week to go before Americans elect the 47th president of the United States. An average of polling compiled by the RealClearPolitics website shows […]
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Mon 28 October 2024: North Korea helping Russia in Ukraine is “very dangerous,” U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday as NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte confirmed that North Korean troops are in Russia and that military units have been deployed to a border region. Putin’s ‘desperation’ NATO chief Mark Rutte on Monday decried the […]
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