Sat 10 August 2024: Any visitor or volunteer paying to play, bottle feed or pet lions bred in captivity is fuelling a cruel lion breeding – and killing – industry, conservation groups say. Walking with lions, petting and playing with cubs, bottle feeding the harmless little things, is the thrill that lion farms offer, but […]
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Sat 10 August 2024: Indian media make claims linking China and Pakistani intelligence to Bangladesh protests and exaggerate scale of attacks on Hindus. Dhaka, Bangladesh – Within hours of Sheikh Hasina’s removal from power after a student-led mass uprising, reports began to appear in some Indian media outlets that members of Hindu minorities in Bangladesh were […]
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Sat 10 August 2024: Washington is poised to allocate $3.5 billion to Israel for the procurement of U.S. weapons and military equipment, a decision reported by CNN on Friday after sources familiar with the situation confirmed the release of funds that had been appropriated months earlier by Congress. Late Thursday night, the State Department informed […]
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Sat 10 August 2024: More than 100 Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City, according to Palestinian officials. Three Israeli bombs hit the al-Tabin school, located in Daraj district, Gaza’s civil defence agency said of the attack on Saturday which it described as a […]
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Fri 09 August 2024: A horrific plane crash has occurred outside São Paulo, Brazil, claiming the lives of all 62 individuals onboard, according to local officials. The Brazilian airline Voepass confirmed the tragic incident on Friday, revealing that the aircraft went down northeast of São Paulo. Officials in the town of Valinhos reported that there […]
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Fri 09 August 2024: The British Islamic Medical Association (BIMA) has recorded a significant rise in “racist abuse” against Muslim NHS (National Health Service) workers following the onset of far-right riots across the UK, leaving many healthcare professionals in fear, local media reported on Friday. Dr. Salman Waqar, the president of BIMA, which represents around […]
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Fri 09 August 2024: Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, “is battling against” the hardline Revolutionary Guards to avoid an all-out war with Israel, according to the Telegraph. Tehran is split over how to respond to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination, with Revolutionary Guards generals pushing for strikes on Tel Aviv, while Pezeshkian suggests targeting secret […]
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Fri 09 August 2024: Bamako has cut ties with Kyiv, accusing it of complicity in an attack that killed Malian soldiers and Russian Wagner troops. A row between unlikely sparring partners. This week, Mali announced it was severing ties with Ukraine, after accusing Kyiv of having a hand in a devastating ambush in the West […]
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Fri 09 August 2024: Qatar, Egypt and the United States have called on Israel and Hamas to resume talks to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, as Israel’s continued bombardment of the territory has killed nearly 40,000 Palestinians and raised fears of further regional escalation. In a joint statement on Thursday, the three countries urged Israel and Hamas […]
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A new leaked video showed the alleged gang-rape of a Palestinian detainee by Israeli soldiers at the Sde Teiman detention camp. Fri 09 August 2024: Israeli prison authorities have systematically used sexual assault and rape as a means of torture against Palestinian detainees, rights group Addameer Foundation said yesterday. According to testimonies obtained from […]
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