Sat 30 September 2023: The International Olympic Committee has ruled that participants in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games are free to wear a headscarf known as a hijab in the athletes’ village, just days after France’s sports minister barred it for the host country’s athletes. Although the IOC on Friday removed hijab restrictions in the […]
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Sat 30 September 2023: Ella Kissi-Debrah’s tragic story serves as a haunting reminder of the deadly consequences of air pollution. In 2013, this nine-year-old succumbed to an acute asthma attack after a life spent within 30 meters of London’s bustling South Circular road, enduring frequent seizures and numerous hospital visits. In 2020, a coroner officially […]
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Sat 30 September 2023: Slovaks are casting ballots in a closely contested parliamentary election between pro-Western liberals and left-wing former prime minister Robert Fico, who has vowed to stop military assistance to the neighboring Ukraine. Final polls showed the two parties tied, with the winner anticipated to get the first chance to form a government […]
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Sat 30 September 2023: Serbia is in the midst of carrying out an “unprecedented” military deployment along its border with Kosovo, the White House said Friday as it called on Belgrade to withdraw its forces. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said the U.S. was “monitoring” what he called a “large Serbian military deployment along […]
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Fri 29 September 2023: President Putin has hailed Russian prisoners who died fighting in Ukraine, saying they had “fully redeemed” themselves. “Everyone can make some mistakes, they once did. But they gave their lives for the Motherland, and fully redeemed themselves,” Putin said at the meeting with servicemen who fought near Ukraine’s Urozhaine on the […]
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken stands with Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar at the State Department in Washington, DC Fri 29 September 2023: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is meeting with his Indian counterpart in Washington, DC, as the United States has urged India to cooperate with Canada’s investigation into the killing of a […]
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Fri 29 September 2023: In what authorities suspect was a suicide blast that occurred Friday near a Rabiul Awwal procession in Balochistan’s Mastung district, at least 52 people—including a police officer—were killed and another 50 others were injured. Dr Saeed Mirwani, chief executive of Shaheed Nawab Ghous Bakhsh Raisani Memorial Hospital, said dozens were being […]
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Fri 29 September 2023: The Arab League has reportedly suspended its talks with the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad, amid Damascus’s apparent failure to curb rampant narcotics trafficking and to resolve the issue of refugees in the region. According to numerous media reports over the past week, which cited anonymous Arab diplomatic sources, the Arab […]
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Fri 29 September 2023: This week, the Canadian government has been dealing with cyberattacks as an Indian hacking group claims to have created chaos in Ottawa. CTV reported. However, Canada’s signals-intelligence agency says it’s likely that the “nuisance” attacks haven’t put sensitive information at danger. The government-controlled institutions appear to have been targeted by the […]
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Fri 29 September 2023: The European Union’s top migration official said the bloc was set to agree on how to handle irregular immigration soon after ministers’ talks yielded no final deal on Thursday with Berlin and Rome worried over rising arrivals ahead of key elections, Reuters reports. The ministers were searching for agreement on a long-stalled system for the […]
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