Saleem Rehmani was shot dead in January 2022 in Pakistan. Indian government placed his name on its most-wanted list [File: Farooq Khan/EPA] Sun 07 April 2024: Islamabad, Pakistan — Since June 2021, Pakistan has tracked and accused Indian intelligence agencies of multiple attempts — some successful — at assassinating individuals New Delhi views as terrorists […]
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Sat 06 April 2024: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health notice on Friday (April 5) in response to the country’s growing avian flu outbreak. In the caution, the CDC discussed a recent case in which a Texas agricultural worker tested positive for H5N1 avian flu. “The virus obtained from […]
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Sat 06 April 2024: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday called for worldwide efforts to tackle the waste crisis. In a video message for the International Day of Zero Waste, which falls on March 30 annually, the UN chief highlighted the perilous state of the planet. “Our planet is drowning under a torrent of trash,” […]
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Sat 06 April 2024: Governments across the region are grappling with how to respond. In the Philippines, almost 4,000 schools have suspended in-person classes as the heat index passed 42C in some areas, a dangerous level that the weather bureau warned could cause heat cramps and exhaustion. During the Easter week in Manila, children played in portable […]
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Sat 06 April 2024: Official American sources told CBS News that the Iranian retaliation to the Israeli-attributed assassination of a Revolutionary Guards general in Damascus is expected to take place at some point in the coming week. According to those sources, the U.S. “picked up intelligence that Iran is planning a retaliatory attack that would […]
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Sat 06 April 2024: Israeli Eran mental health crisis hotline releases statistics for the first six months of the war with Hamas in Gaza. The organization refers to the numbers as “notable and worrisome.” In the last half year since October 7, Eran received 172,000 requests for mental health support by phone or internet. This […]
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Fri 05 April 2024: New Delhi: The Supreme Court today, April 5, stayed the Allahabad high court judgment quashing Uttar Pradesh’s madrasa law. The Wire has reported on how the March 22 verdict by the high court, declaring the Uttar Pradesh Madrasa Act, 2004 – through which madrasas are governed in the state – unconstitutional, has left around […]
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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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Fri 05 April 2024: McDonald’s has said it will buy its 30-year-old Israel franchise from Alonyal, taking back ownership of 225 outlets that employ more than 5,000 people. The US fast-food chain has been subject to boycotts and protests since Alonyal announced shortly after the October 7 attack by Palestinian group Hamas that it would […]
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Fri 05 April 2024: In an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt, former US President Donald Trump says Israel is receiving bad press and creating negative public sentiment because of its social media strategy, which includes posting images of destruction in the Gaza Strip. The former president has long cast himself as a stalwart defender […]
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