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Soph Askanase was one of several Jewish students who was detained and suspended during the protest last week
Columbia's anti-war protesters dig in despite mass arrests and disciplinary action
NEW YORK — Anti-Gaza war protesters have vowed to remain at Columbia University until their demands are met, despite mass arrests and disciplinary action.More than 100 students were arrested at a Columbia protest "encampment" last week, followed by dozens more at Yale and New York University in recent days.Many at Columbia have been suspended, prompting vocal calls for disciplinary measures to be dropped or rescinded.Some students on campus have reported antisemitic harassment from protesters.A deadline that was given by the university on Tuesday for protesters to disband by midnight has now been extended by 48 hours, with officials reporting "important progress" in talks to reach a deal.Columbia president Dr Minouche Shafik earlier warned that without an agreement,...
April 24, 2024

Columbia's anti-war protesters dig in despite mass arrests and disciplinary action

Russia's deputy defence minister Timur Ivanov, left, alongside President Vladimir Putin and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu
Russian deputy defense minister Timur Ivanov accused of taking bribes
MOSCOW — A Russian deputy defense minister has been accused of taking bribes and remanded in custody by a court in Moscow.Timur Ivanov, who denies the charges, is accused of accepting bribes "on a particularly large scale".Appointed to the defense ministry in 2016, Ivanov, 47, has been responsible for Russia's military infrastructure projects.Activists have long criticized the levels of alleged corruption in Russia.However, such high-profile cases have been rare since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.Ivanov is considered an ally of Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and has worked with him for many years. He was previously deputy prime minister of the Moscow region, where Shoigu briefly served as governor.The Kremlin has rejected reports in some...
April 24, 2024

Russian deputy defense minister Timur Ivanov accused of taking bribes

AfD lawmaker Maximilian Krah
Far-right German MEP to remain top EU candidate despite aide's arrest 
BRUSSELS — A prominent German far-right lawmaker said on Wednesday that he will dismiss an assistant who was arrested on suspicion of spying for China, but will remain his party's top candidate in the upcoming European Parliament elections.Maximilian Krah's assistant, Jian Guo, was arrested on Monday. Prosecutors accuse Guo – a German national who had worked for Krah since his election to the EU legislature in 2019 – of working for a Chinese intelligence service and repeatedly passing on information about negotiations and decisions in the European Parliament.Prosecutors allege that he also snooped on Chinese dissidents in Germany. On Tuesday night, a judge ordered Guo held in custody pending a possible indictment.The arrest has cast an unflattering light on the Alternative...
April 24, 2024

Far-right German MEP to remain top EU candidate despite aide's arrest 

US Marine's GoPro footage that challenges Pentagon’s account of attack at Kabul airport
New evidence challenges Pentagon’s account of a horrific attack as the US withdrew from Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — New video evidence uncovered by CNN significantly undermines two Pentagon investigations, the latest of which was released last week, into an ISIS-K suicide attack outside Kabul airport, during the American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.The incident was a gruesome coda to America’s longest war, leaving dead 13 United States military service members and about 170 Afghans who were desperately seeking US help to flee the Taliban takeover of Kabul. For two years, the US military has insisted that the loss of life was caused by a single explosion, and that troops who reported coming under fire and returning it were likely confused in the chaotic aftermath, some suffering from the effects of blast concussion.But video captured by a Marine’s GoPro camera that...
April 24, 2024

New evidence challenges Pentagon’s account of a horrific attack as the US withdrew from Afghanistan

File photo of police in Sydney
Seven teens with alleged 'extremist ideology' arrested in Sydney raids
SYDNEY — Australian police have arrested seven teenagers as part of a wave of counter-terrorism raids across Sydney, claiming it was "likely" the youths may have been plotting an attack.The suspects are believed to share a "religiously motivated violent extremist ideology", say police.The raids are linked to last week's stabbing of an Assyrian bishop, which police declared a "terrorist act".Police say the offenders were "juveniles" aged from 15 to 17.Investigators allege that the teenagers belong to the same network as the 16-year-old boy who has been charged with a terror offense in relation to the stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, which occurred during a livestreamed sermon.At least four people suffered "non-threatening"...
April 24, 2024

Seven teens with alleged 'extremist ideology' arrested in Sydney raids

Palestinian workers are exhuming bodies at Nasser hospital with shovels because they have no heavy machinery
UN rights chief 'horrified' by mass grave reports at Gaza hospitals
GAZA — The UN's human rights chief has said he is "horrified" by the destruction of Gaza's Nasser and al-Shifa hospitals and the reports of "mass graves" being found at the sites after Israeli raids.Volker Türk called for independent investigations into the deaths.Palestinian officials said they had exhumed 283 bodies at Nasser, some with their hands tied. It is not clear how they died or when they were buried.Israel's military said claims that it buried bodies there were "baseless".But it did say that during a two-week operation at the hospital in the city of Khan Younis in February, troops "examined" bodies buried by Palestinians "in places where intelligence indicated the possible presence of hostages".Ten hostages who...
April 24, 2024

UN rights chief 'horrified' by mass grave reports at Gaza hospitals

President Biden has said he will sign the bill into law
TikTok faces US ban as Biden set to sign bill
WASHINGTON — The US Senate has approved a controversial landmark bill that could see TikTok banned in America.It gives TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, nine months to sell its stake or the app will be blocked in the United States.The bill will now be handed over to US President Joe Biden, who has said he will sign it into law as soon as it reaches his desk.TikTok has told the BBC that it did not have an immediate response to the move. Previously Bytedance said it would oppose any attempt to force it to sell TikTok.If the US is successful in forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok any deal would still need approval from Chinese officials but Beijing has vowed to oppose any such move. Analysts say the process could take years.The measure was passed as part of a package of four bills which...
April 24, 2024

TikTok faces US ban as Biden set to sign bill

Police car in Brussels, Belgium
Belgian man whose body produces alcohol in rare condition acquitted of drunk driving
BRUSSELS — A Belgian man was acquitted of drunk driving on Monday because he suffers from auto-brewery syndrome (ABS), a rare condition whereby the body produces alcohol, Reuters reported.The man's lawyer, Anse Ghesquiere, told Reuters that in “another unfortunate coincidence” her client works at a brewery, but three doctors who independently examined him confirmed he suffered from ABS.Belgian media said that in the verdict, the judge emphasized that the defendant, who was not named in line with local judicial custom, did not experience symptoms of intoxication.The Bruges police court, which acquitted the man, did not immediately reply to an email from Reuters.Lisa Florin, clinical biologist with Belgian hospital AZ Sint-Lucas, explained that people with the condition produce the...
April 24, 2024

Belgian man whose body produces alcohol in rare condition acquitted of drunk driving

A dust cloud from the Sahara Desert in Africa covers the Acropolis on April 23, 2024 in Athens
Greek meteorologist says Athens is like a ‘colony of Mars’ as dust storm shrouds city in orange haze
ATHENS — A yellow-orange haze of dust from the Sahara desert has blanketed parts of Greece, creating spectacular scenes and prompting authorities to issue health warnings.The Greek meteorological service said weather conditions on Tuesday had favored the movement of dust from Africa and this was showing up in “increased concentrations in the atmosphere,” particularly in the south of the country.The dust is expected to gradually decrease on Wednesday morning, the service predicted, and from midday onwards it would be “limited to the east.”Videos and images shared online showed people in Athens observing the yellow-orange fog from the hills near the Greek capital.Others took evening walks in the city and shared the bright orange scenes on social media. Greek Meteorologist Kostas...
April 24, 2024

Greek meteorologist says Athens is like a ‘colony of Mars’ as dust storm shrouds city in orange haze

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has pushed back against US President Joe Biden's recent remarks about cannibalism in the Pacific during World War II
Biden’s controversial ‘cannibalism’ remarks meet pushback in Papua New Guinea
WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden’s apparent suggestion his uncle may have been eaten by cannibals during World War II has sparked uproar in Papua New Guinea, casting a shadow on US relations with the Pacific nation and meeting a firm response from its leader.In contentious remarks made last week following a visit to a war memorial, Biden twice hinted that the US was unable to recover his uncle Ambrose Finnegan’s remains after his plane crashed near the island of New Guinea during the war “because there used to be a lot of cannibals” in the region.In a statement from his office Monday, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape conceded that Biden may have misspoken, but he pushed back against the characterization of cannibalism in the Pacific Island nation, which encompasses...
April 24, 2024

Biden’s controversial ‘cannibalism’ remarks meet pushback in Papua New Guinea

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