A view of summer Olympic 2024 host city Paris (Source: @OlympicsParis) Photograph:(Twitter) Mon 15 April 2024: French President Emmanuel Macron has stated that the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics will be rescheduled if there is a substantial risk of a terrorist attack, and that backup preparations are in place to deal with […]
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Ramadan vibes in Oxford street Mon 15 April 2024: Experts say a new definition disproportionately targets groups that advocate for Muslims’ civil rights. The United Kingdom government’s new definition of “extremism”, touted as a bid to tackle rising Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in the aftermath of Israel’s war on Gaza, has ignited fierce debate across the political […]
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Mon 15 April 2024: America’s mounting debt bill is the country’s greatest national security crisis-in-waiting, U.S. magazine The National Interest has reported. Noting that the country registered a 1.6 trillion-U.S. dollar deficit this year and a 35-trillion-dollar overall debt, the report said Thursday that Washington is “carrying the debt load that the United States has […]
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Sun 14 April 2024: Australians are mourning the death of five women and a “courageous” Pakistani security guard killed in a stabbing attack at a Sydney shopping centre. Police on Sunday said they were yet to confirm any motivation or ideology behind the attacks in Sydney’s Bondi Junction but are investigating if the killer deliberately targeted […]
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Sun 14 April 2024: Research has found young children who are exposed to news and current affair programs can be impacted so much that they start viewing the world as a scarier place. While much attention has been drawn to the detrimental impact of violent video games on children’s developing brains, there has been relatively little discussion […]
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Sun 14 April 2024: The British government should communicate its messages to young people using TikTok, the British House of Commons said in a report on Friday. The call was made in the Trusted Voices report by the Culture, Media and Sport Committee in the House of Commons following an inquiry into the role of […]
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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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