Sat 12 August 2023: The 29th Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) began Friday in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina with Slovenian director Nenad Cicin-Sain’s Kiss the Future. The opening ceremony was held at the National Theater with major celebrities from the world of cinema taking to the red carpet parade. The SFF will run until […]
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Sat 12 August 2023: The confirmed death toll from this week’s wildfires in Maui has now reached 80, the Maui County government announced Friday at 9 p.m. HST (3 a.m. ET). “Firefighters continue working to extinguish flare-ups and contain fires in Lahaina, Pulehu/Kihei and Upcountry Maui,” the release said. “The number of fatalities is at 80.” There are […]
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Sat 12 August 2023: The United States recorded its highest number of suicides last year, with more than 49,000 people taking their own lives in 2022, according to newly released government data. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) posted new data on Thursday suggesting suicides were becoming more common in the US than at any […]
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Fri 11 August 2023: Britain has removed migrants from a residential barge less than a week after they moved in, after Legionella bacteria was found in the water supply, the government said on Friday, Reuters reports. Britain had begun moving some migrants on to the large “Bibby Stockholm” barge on its southern coast at the beginning of the week as part of its […]
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Fri 11 August 2023: The Sudan conflict has pushed over 20 million people into severe acute hunger, with 6.3 million of them “one step away from famine,” the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. “Around 42 per cent of Sudan’s population had now been pushed into hunger; 6.3 million of those were classified […]
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Fri 11 August 2023: Pakistan’s imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan met his wife Bushra Bibi at the high-security Attock jail for the first time on Thursday after his conviction and arrest in a corruption case, his lawyer said. Lawyer Naeem Haider Panjutha said in a video message on X, formerly known as Twitter, that […]
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Fri 11 August 2023: Gunmen have ambushed a bus carrying Syrian soldiers in the country’s east, killing at least 20 and wounding others, opposition activists have said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday that 23 Syrian soldiers were killed and 10 were wounded in the attack on a desert road near […]
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Fri 11 August 2023: Guillermo Lasso, the president of Ecuador, announced on Thursday that he has asked the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to help with the investigation into the assassination of a presidential contender. “I have asked the FBI for assistance in the investigation into the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio Valencia,” […]
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Fri 11 August 2023: A significant step was taken for space tourism. Virgin Galactic has successfully completed its first civilian space journey. In the initial phase of the journey, a carrier known as Eve was used. Later, the engine was ignited, reaching an altitude of 85 km. Approximately 45 minutes after launch, the passengers reached […]
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Fri 11 August 2023: Former South African president Jacob Zuma received a remission from President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday, averting a decision that might have sent him back to prison. Zuma served only two months of a 15-month prison term in 2021. Former South African President Jacob Zuma was taken back to prison on Friday […]
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