Thu 18 April 2024: Russian military casualties in the war with Ukraine have topped 50,000, according to research. The BBC, whose Russian unit has been counting deaths since Moscow’s forces invaded the neighbouring state in February 2022, revealed the number on Wednesday, noting that the rate of casualties accelerated in the second year of the […]
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Thu 18 April 2024: Facebook Sharing ButtonTwitter Sharing ButtonReddit sharing buttonWhatsApp Sharing ButtonEmail sharing button Share this sharing button. According to an internal memo obtained by The Intercept, the New York Times has directed its journalists covering Israel’s war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to limit the use of certain awkward terminology such as […]
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Wed 17 April 2024: Azerbaijan and Russia officially confirmed the beginning of the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from Karabakh on Wednesday. Commenting at a press briefing in Moscow on media reports which said the withdrawal of the Russian peacekeepers started several days ago, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the reports were accurate: “Yes, it really […]
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Wed 17 April 2024: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine has signed a bill into law that improves army mobilization guidelines in an effort to solve the country’s severe soldier shortfall in the war against Russia. The bill will take effect one month from now, on Tuesday, following its publication on the legislative website of Ukraine. […]
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Wed 17 April 2024: A Muslim pupil in the United Kingdom has lost a court challenge against a top London school’s ban on prayer rituals in a case about freedom of religion in schools that has captured national attention. The student, who cannot be named, took legal action against Michaela Community School in northwest London, […]
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Researchers think that the central skeleton in the grave (marked 1) was an older woman who was buried after dying of natural causes, and that the two other skeletons (marked 2 and 3) were younger sacrificial victims bound “incaprettamento.” (Image credit: Ludes et al., Sci. Adv. 10, eadl3374 (2024)) Tue 16 April 2024: STUDY UNEARTHS […]
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Tue 16 April 2024: Households in Britain throw away some 1.7 billion pieces of plastic every week, according to a new report by the UK’s Big Plastic Count initiative. According to the report, only 17% of the country’s plastic waste is recycled while 58% is incinerated, 14% exported, and 11% landfilled. Stressing that incineration releases […]
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Mon 15 April 2024: A former government staffer in Australia raped a colleague in the country’s Parliament, a judge has found, rejecting his defamation claim against a broadcaster that aired his accuser’s allegations. Justice Michael Lee ruled that Bruce Lehrmann, an adviser to the previous conservative government, was not defamed in the television interview with […]
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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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