Category: 2. World
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Hezbollah targets different Israeli army sites at border
Islamic ResistanceHezbollah forces fired Burkan missiles at Al-Raheb site and a gathering of Israeli occupation soldiers in its vicinity, inflicting direct hits, the first statement by the movement said on Monday Hezbollah forces targeted Ma’aleh Golan barracks with rocket weapons, achieving a direct hit, the second statement said. Hezbollah fighters struke Al-Ramtha and Al-Sammaqa occupation…
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Oxbridge must help pupils from state schools succeed, college head says | University of Oxford
Oxbridge colleges need to actively help their state school-educated pupils succeed, rather than hope a “magical sorting hat” will uncover their talent, according to the head of an Oxford college who is looking to raise £100m to do just that. Helen Mountfield, the principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, said her college was able to recruit…
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Fears for future of Gaelic language as community workers’ jobs under threat | Scotland
Gaelic-language campaigners and MSPs have protested furiously about plans to axe a network of Gaelic community workers, raising fresh fears about the survival of the language. Up to 27 Gaelic development workers based in Hebridean islands, rural counties and Scotland’s major cities are being laid off after the Scottish government cut funding to Bòrd na…
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Katie Britt defends sex trafficking story that she implied occurred under Biden | Republicans
In her first interview since delivering her widely ridiculed rebuttal to Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech, Republican senator Katie Britt refused to apologize for invoking a story about child rape that she implied resulted from the president’s handling of the ongoing crisis at the southern US border – even though the abuse occurred…
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Ramadan in S. Arabia, Qatar, UAE set to start on Monday
The crescent moon was sighted on Sunday evening in Sudair and Al-Hariq, Arab media reported. However, Oman has declared Tuesday as the first day of the holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar during which Muslims fast from dawn to sunset, abstaining from food and drink. The holy month is…
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Murder investigation launched after man shot dead in south-east London | London
A murder investigation has been launched after a man was shot dead in south-east London, police said. The Metropolitan police said officers were called to Catford Broadway, in the borough of Lewisham, at about 4.30am on Sunday, where a man – believed to be in his 30s – was found with a gunshot wound. No…
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Ramadan in Gaza: ‘We used to adorn our street, now everything around us is bleak’ | Israel-Gaza war
Seventy days after they were forced to leave their house in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, Hanaa al-Masry, her husband and their six children are preparing for Ramadan in their new home: a dilapidated tent. Here, there will be no decorations, no joyous family meals and no reading of the Qur’an under the…
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‘A tipping point for the city’: anger in Birmingham as Electric cinema closes | Birmingham
There are growing calls to protect a street in Birmingham that was home to the UK’s first purpose-built repertory theatre, a pub that hosted Black Sabbath’s first gig and the country’s oldest working cinema, with two of the three venues now closed down. The closure last week of the Electric cinema on Station Street, 114…
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Three top nitrogen gas manufacturers in US bar products from use in executions | US news
Three of the largest manufacturers of medical-grade nitrogen gas in the US have barred their products from being used in executions, following Alabama’s recent killing of the death row inmate Kenneth Smith using a previously untested method known as nitrogen hypoxia. The three companies have confirmed to the Guardian that they have put in place…
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Calls for legal action after ‘unimaginable suffering’ filmed at Devon pig farm | Animal welfare
Undercover footage of pigs at a Devon farm showing them exposed to “unimaginable suffering” has prompted calls for legal action against the owners. The film crew said the video of pigs being kept in filthy, cramped conditions – featuring instances of cannibalism and malnourishment, as well as animals with untreated, bleeding wounds and hernias –…