Nine policemen sentenced to death in India over Covid custody killings
The father and son died in jail after being arrested on suspicion of breaching Covid lockdown rules in 2020.
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Why Bangladesh is seeing a deadly spike in cases
“Vaccines are foundational to child survival,” Rana Flowers, the Unicef representative in Bangladesh, said in a statement on Sunday, adding that the current measles outbreak was “putting thousands of children, especially the youngest and most vulnerable, at serious risk.”
Continue ReadingUS Secret Service investigates reports of gunfire near White House
Officers responded to reports of gunfire in the area around Washington DC’s Lafayette Park just after midnight local time (04:00 GMT) and conducted a search of the park, just north of the president’s residence, and the surrounding area, the agency said.
Continue ReadingHungary’s Viktor Orban alleges plot to blow up gas pipeline ahead of election
Balint Pasztor, president of the Vojvodina Hungarian Association, and another key Orban ally, posted on Facebook: “If the investigation proves that we were not the primary target after all, but rather Hungary’s supply lines, then this makes it even clearer: the terrorist attack was planned with the aim of bringing down Viktor Orban.”
Continue ReadingCambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat
The statue honours the late African giant pouched rat who sniffed out more than 100 landmines during his lifetime.
Continue ReadingArtemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon
The crew for Nasa’s Artemis II mission have described seeing the far side of the Moon for the first time. Nasa astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen have entered the third day of their mission on the Orion spacecraft that will carry them around the far […]
Continue ReadingMan charged over fatal shooting of baby in pram in New York
Two men have been arrested over the shooting of a seven-month-old baby in Williamsburg.
Continue ReadingAI videos fuel rhetoric as Orbán bids for four more years in Hungary
Videos have targeted Viktor Orbán’s election rival, who could unseat him after 16 years in office.
Continue ReadingThe man who became one of India’s greatest stage queens
Chapal Bhaduri was Bengal’s biggest stage queen – until women arrived and the spotlight moved on.
Continue ReadingSearch for missing airman presents serious test for US
Publicly, the president has played down this entire incident and suggested it won’t affect negotiations with Tehran to end the war that began with US and Israeli strikes on 28 February. But privately, this is likely to be of serious concern – particularly as Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is said to have launched its […]
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