Three policemen were killed and five others were injured in an explosion in Faizabad city, the capital of Afghanistan’s northern province of Badakhshan, officials confirmed on Wednesday. A bomb hidden on a motorbike was detonated while a police convoy …
‘Worst nightmare’ – World Boxing meets IOC over 2028 Games omission
New body World Boxing hopes the sport will be represented at the 2028 Olympic Games after all following a meeting with the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Last year, the IOC withdrew its recognition of the IBA amateur boxing federation due to go…
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GERMANY-CRIME-POLITICS Further attacks on politicians in Germany rattle the country and prompt renewed outrage from leaders. Moving ____ ISRAEL-CONFLICT-PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES The Kerem Shalom border crossing for the delivery of aid to the Gaza Strip …
Mica Miller’s Pastor Husband Removed By Church After Her Suicide
The pastor of a South Carolina church whose wife died by suicide after claiming she had faced abuse has reportedly been removed from his duties. Solid Rock at Market Common Church in Myrtle Beach said the Rev. John-Paul Miller had been removed from “mi…
Indian Coast Guard rescues fisherman drowning off Kutch coast
New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI): The Indian Coast Guard carried out a swift operation and rescued a fisherman from drowning in the sea, near the Kutch coast, a press release said on Wednesday. The operation was carried out by an ICG Interceptor Boat C-4…
Atalanta – OM : La réponse très floue de Sead Kolasinac sur sa présence pour la demie retour de Ligue Europa
By Benjamin Lefevre A J-1 de la demi-finale retour de Ligue Europa entre l’Atalanta Bergame et l’OM ce jeudi soir en Italie, la présence du défenseur du club bergamasque et ancien joueur du club Phocéen Sead Kolasinac est encore incertaine. “Je me sens…
‘I was cruelly shamed for not fitting in plane seat – then I lost 8st with one free method’
By Ciara Healy & Julia Banim After being fat-shamed by a fellow passenger aboard an aeroplane, dismayed Dee Ucuncu was left determined to make a change. Having struggled with her weight all her life, at her heaviest, the mum-of-two weighed 17 stone exa…
Cambridge students establish pro-Palestine camp by King’s College
A ‘Liberated Zone’ encampment was set up outside King’s College in the centre of Cambridge on Monday morning (5 May) as part of a pro-Palestine protest which included an equivalent camp being set up at Oxford University at the same time. The protesters…
EU court annulment of German bailout has “no impact” on Condor
The EU General Court decision to annul the European Commission’s approval of a German government bailout of the airline Condor “has no impact on Condor’s business situation and flight operations,” a spokeswoman for the company told dpa. Condor is curre…
Emmanuel Ozoh: Of University of Nigeria and years of the yocust
Anyone who is even faintly familiar with the history of higher education in Nigeria would already be in the know of the history of the founding of the University of Nigeria, and her land-grant philosophy and ancestry. Between 1960 and 1966, Nigeria was…