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Gaza: No let up in deadly toll as rights chief demands end to suffering 2024-04-16
United Nations

Nearly 10,000 women have been killed in Gaza...

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'Colossal' floods heading for Russian city 2024-04-16
Saudi Gazette

MOSCOW — A "colossal" amount of water is moving towards the Russian city of Kurgan, the region's governor has said.Vadim Shumkov said that the swollen Tobol river and its tributaries had ......

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On a China visit, the German chancellor says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens global security 2024-04-16
Wtop

BEIJING (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told Chinese leader Xi Jinping who hosted him in Beijing on Tuesday that Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine threatens global security, in an apparent call for China to apply greater pressure on its neighbor and close strategic partner to resolve the...

photo: AP / Russian Defence Ministry Press Service via AP

International support for Tunisia’s jailed opposition leader Ghannouchi 2024-04-16
Al Jazeera

Marking the first anniversary of the arrest of Tunisia’s prominent opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi, an international committee has formed to raise awareness of the imprisonment of the 82-year-old, now the “oldest prisoner of conscience in the Arab world”. The International Committee for...

photo: AP / Hassene Dridi, File

Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia: How safe is the nuclear plant? 2024-04-16
Deutsche Welle

The International Atomic Energy Agency warned attacks on Ukraine&aposs Zaporizhzhia power plant put it — Europe&aposs largest nuclear facility — &aposdangerously close to an accident.&apos It&aposs been a central target in Russia&aposs war. ......

photo: AP / Andriy Andriyenko

Pro-Palestinian protesters paralyse US cities 2024-04-16
Gulf Today

Demonstrators protesting the ongoing war in Gaza, block southbound traffic on Interstate 880 in Oakland, California, on Monday. AP Pro-Palestinian demonstrators blocked roadways in Illinois, California, New York and the Pacific Northwest on Monday, temporarily shutting down travel into some of the...

photo: AP / Nam Y. Huh

Armourer for the film Rust sentenced to 18 months in fatal on-set shooting 2024-04-16
Al Jazeera

The weapons supervisor for the film Rust has been sentenced in the United States to 18 months in prison for her role in the fatal on-set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armourer on the film, received the maximum possible sentence at Monday’s hearing in Santa...

photo: AP / Jae C. Hong, File

Trump arrives at court for the start of jury selection in his historic hush money trial 2024-04-15
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump arrived Monday at a New York court for the start of jury selection in his hush money trial, marking a singular moment in American history as the former president and current White House hopeful answers to criminal charges. It's the first criminal trial of any former U.S....

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Azerbaijan calls for ICJ to throw out Armenian ethnic cleansing case 2024-04-15
Al Jazeera

Azerbaijan has called for the UN’s International Court of Justice to throw out a case accusing it of ethnic cleansing brought by its neighbour and rival Armenia. Lawyers for Azerbaijan argued on Monday that the case does not meet the conditions of the United Nations anti-discrimination treaty on...

photo: AP / Sergei Grits

36 confirmed dead in Pakistan after lightning strikes, heavy rains 2024-04-15
Fox News

Lightning and heavy rains have killed at least 36 people, mostly farmers, across Pakistan in the past three days, officials said Monday, as authorities in the country&aposs southwest declared a state of emergency. Most of the deaths occurred when lightning struck farmers harvesting wheat and rains...

photo: AP / Muhammad Sajjad