Al Jazeera : The United Nations committee responsible for combatting racism has slammed the United Kingdom over continuing hate crimes, hate speech and xenophobic incidents, following riots fuelled by hate and misinformation that gripped the country this summer.The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) said on Friday it was concerned by the presence of racist speech on various platforms, particularly where perpetuated by politicians and public figures. The committee also issued its findings on Belarus, Bosnia and...
Al Jazeera : A deadly fire at a South Korean lithium battery factory in June broke out as the company raced to meet a deadline without taking action to address signs of dangerous quality failures, police said.At least 23 people were killed at the Aricell lithium battery plant during the massive blaze, in one of the country’s worst industrial disasters in years.Manufacture Aricell, which also produces batteries for South Korea’s military, had failed a quality inspection in April and subsequently...
AFP : Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelenksy on a historic visit to Kyiv on Friday,...
AFP : As their first birthday approaches, the triplets Gaza-native Hanane Bayouk gave birth to in Jerusalem before the war...
Agency : Doctors at a top Indian government hospital ended Thursday an 11-day strike in protest against the rape and...
AFP : Hopes were dwindling Thursday for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, where fighting raged despite pressure from the...
News Desk : Thailand on Thursday confirmed Asia’s first known case of a new, deadlier strain of mpox in a patient who had travelled to the kingdom from Africa.The patient landed in Bangkok on August 14 and was sent to hospital with mpox symptoms.The Department of Disease Control said laboratory tests on the 66-year-old European confirmed he was infected with mpox Clade 1b.“Thailand’s Department of Disease Control wishes to confirm the lab test result which shows mpox Clade 1b in...
Deutsche Welle : Officials from Russia and Ukraine have not met since shortly after the war between them started in early 2022 when Russian troops invaded Ukraine. But over the weekend, news of possible talks to be mediated by the Middle Eastern nation of Qatar emerged. It could “have amounted to a partial cease-fire and offered a reprieve for both countries, “the Washington Post, the first media outlet to report on the planned talks, said. The talks were canceled because...
The Straits Times : Residents of Porto Velho in the Brazilian Amazon have barely seen sunlight in days as a thick cloud of smoke from forest fires envelops their city. “We are struggling to breathe,” said 30-year-old teacher Tayane Moraes, one of some 460,000 people who live in the city near the border with Bolivia. On Aug 20, the concentration of cancer-causing microparticles known as PM2.5 reached 56.5 micrograms per cubic metre of air in Porto Velho – 11 times...
Aljazeera : At least three staff members have been killed in a shooting at a school in the northwest of Bosnia and Herzegovina, authorities say. Among those killed in Wednesday’s shooting were the principal, secretary and a teacher at the Sanski Most High School Center, Adnan Beganovic, a spokesman for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, told Al Jazeera. The shooting took place at 10:15am (08:15 GMT). The Reuters news agency reported quoting police that a school employee was involved in...
BBC : A bus carrying Pakistani pilgrims has overturned in Iran, killing at least 28 passengers, Iranian state media reports. The crash happened on Tuesday night in the central Iranian province of Yazd and was due to a defective braking system, Reuters reported, citing a preliminary police investigation.Another 23 passengers were injured, 14 of them critically, Pakistan’s ambassador to Iran Muhammad Mudassir Tipu told the BBC. The pilgrims were travelling from the Sindh province in Pakistan to Iraq’s holy city...
Agency : In a recent statement, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) highlighted that 18.6 million people, including 6 million children, are in urgent need of aid as Myanmar grapples with escalating conflicts and severe natural disasters. The warning was issued on World Humanitarian Day, which was observed on Monday, emphasizing the escalating humanitarian crisis in Myanmar. OCHA’s Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Myanmar emphasized the urgent need for food, shelter, protection, and other essential...