Mon 01 April 2024: Islamabad, Pakistan – A court in Pakistan has suspended former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s jail sentence in a case related to illegal selling of state gifts. Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi were each handed a 14-year sentence in the case on January 31 – just a week ahead of the February 8 elections, which […]
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Mon 01 April 2024: Turkey’s main opposition party has claimed victory in Istanbul and Ankara in local elections, inflicting the biggest defeat on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in more than two decades. With more than 95 percent of ballot boxes opened in Istanbul on Sunday, Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu […]
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Sun 31 March 2024: On Easter Sunday, one of the most significant day in the Christian calendar, Pope Francis reiterated his appeals for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all Israeli captives. After conducting mass in a crowded St. Peter’s Square, Francis spoke from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, bestowing […]
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Sun 31 March 2024: South Africa is in the middle of a deep electricity crisis. In 2023 the public, many of whom are voters, experienced the worst loadshedding to date, losing power for an average of five hours a day. The power shortages were largely due to excessive breakdowns in the country’s coal power plant fleet, […]
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Sun 31 March 2024: Doing his duty as a voting citizen in Türkiye’s local elections on Sunday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cast his ballot in the metropolis of Istanbul. After voting in the city’s Uskudar district, Erdogan stressed the importance of participation in the elections, urging all eligible citizens to come out and make their […]
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Clergy lay hands and pray over President-elect Donald J. Trump Sept. 21, 2016, at the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Photo: Jonathan Ernst/ REUTERS Sun 31 March 2024: The decision to have a day celebrating transgender people fall on Easter has caused tensions between the camps of Republican presidential candidate Donald […]
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Sun 31 March 2024: The multinational corporation claims that contact information, passcodes, and Social Security numbers (SSNs) of millions of former and current AT&T customers have been leaked online. In a statement issued on Saturday, the largest telecommunications network in the United States stated a recently found dataset on the “dark web” contained information for […]
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Sat 30 March 2024: New Delhi: Three months after his lawyers moved the Supreme Court about the possibility that he may be eliminated in custody, jailed former legislator Mukhtar Ansari died on Thursday, March 28 due to “cardiac arrest” after he was rushed to a hospital from Banda jail in Uttar Pradesh. Government doctors said Ansari […]
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Lutfulloi Nazrimad, a suspect in the Crocus City Hall shooting, stands in a glass cage in the Basmanny District Court in Moscow [Basmanny District Court press service via AP] Sat 30 March 2024: Nine people have been detained by Tajikistan’s national security service on suspicion of having links with the gunmen who attacked a […]
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Sat 30 March 2024: ‘International Day of Zero Waste is celebrated every year on 30 March. On this occasion, emphasis is laid on increasing awareness and motivating action towards ‘zero-waste’. Humanity’s unsustainable production and consumption practices are driving the planet towards destruction. Households, small businesses and public service providers generate between 2.1 billion and 2.3 billion tons of municipal solid […]
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