Sun 14 April 2024: Salwan Momika, an Iraqi Christian known for publicly burning copies of the Holy Quran, is back in Sweden after rejection of his asylum request in Norway and spending two weeks in prison. The Swedish Migration Agency had revoked Momika’s residency permit, citing false information in his original application. That is when […]
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Sat 13 April 2024: Seven people have been killed and several others injured, including a nine-month-old baby, in a mass stabbing at a busy shopping mall in Sydney, Australian police said. The alleged offender, who is believed to have acted alone and engaged with “about nine people” was shot dead by a lone police officer […]
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Fri 12 April 2024: Ukraine has once again called for the exclusion of Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Paris Olympics. In an open letter on Friday, the country said some of the athletes competing under a neutral flag, who have qualified for the Games, support Russia’s war in Ukraine. The letter was addressed […]
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Representational Image Thu 11 April 2024: An “exceptional” dust cloud from the Sahara is choking parts of Europe, the continent’s climate monitor said on Monday, causing poor air quality and coating windows and cars in grime. Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said the latest plume, the third of its kind in recent weeks, was bringing […]
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Wed 10 April 2024: A report released by World Steel Association (worldsteel) on Wednesday, projected that global steel demand to grow by 1.7% at an annualized pace to 1.79 billion tons in 2024, following two years of decline. The demand is forecast to rise by 1.2% year-on-year to 1.82 billion tons in 2025, according to […]
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Tue 09 April 2024: The family of an Apple engineer who was killed when his Model X swerved off a California highway while it was operating on autopilot has resolved a lawsuit against the electric manufacturer Tesla. According to court documents released on Monday, Tesla has reached a settlement with the Wei Lun Huang family […]
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Tue 09 April 2024: UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron met with Donald Trump at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago club on Monday night, two people familiar with the visit told CNN. “The Foreign Secretary is on his way to Washington DC, where he will hold discussions with US Secretary of State Blinken, other Biden administration figures […]
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Tue 09 April 2024: Russia claimed on Monday that investigators working on the March 22 terrorist attack on the Crocus City concert hall in Moscow region obtained evidence about the involvement of Ukraine’s intelligence in the affair. The Investigative Committee said in a statement that the information allows to speak about Ukraine’s involvement in preparation […]
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Mon 08 April 2024: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) began hearings on Monday on Nicaragua’s case against Germany, accusing Berlin of facilitating “genocide” in Gaza by providing political and military support to Israel. Addressing the court, Nicaraguan Ambassador Carlos Jose Arguello Gomez said Germany is continuing its military support to Israel, although it is […]
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Fri 05 April 2024: Keerthi Subramanian, a shop clerk in South London, earns 10.42 pounds ($13.15) an hour. From Monday that will go up by 1.02 pounds ($1.29) to 11.44 pounds ($14.44) as a new United Kingdom minimum wage kicks in. That is not much help, she says. “At just over 10 pounds, I wasn’t […]
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