•Tunisian Flag Four people have been killed and 40 hospitalised after consuming tainted alcohol in southern Tunisia, an official said. An inquiry has been opened and the person who supplied the alcohol has been arrested, Fethi Baccouche, a spokesman for the Medenine court, told our correspondent. An analysis of the alcohol is underway to deter...
•Boeing 737 MAX of Brazilian airline Gol The US air safety regulator announced yesterday it was grounding and ordering inspections on some Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplanes a day after a window panel blew out of one of the aircraft over the state of Oregon. The Federal Aviation Administration “is requiring immediate inspections of certain […]...
•Ousmane Sonko Senegal’s Constitutional Council yesterday rejected jailed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko’s candidacy for next month’s presidential vote, his lawyer said, after a long-running judicial saga around the firebrand politician. The 49-year-old, who came third in the 2019 presidential election, has been at the centre of a bitter stan...
•Trump The US Supreme Court agreed yesterday to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of a ruling by Colorado’s highest court that would keep him off the presidential primary ballot in the western state. The conservative-majority Supreme Court, which includes three justices appointed by the former president, said it would hear oral arguments in the high-...
A shop owner in Iran, Zeinab Khenyab has been sentenced to two years in prison after publishing photos without a headscarf, the U.S.-based human rights network, HRANA, said today. According to the network, Zeinab Khenyab was earlier sentenced to three months in prison in December in another case, for “propaganda against the state.” The woman [...
•Biden President Joe Biden will try to fire up his 2024 campaign today with a major speech warning that democracy is at risk from Donald Trump, three years after the January 6 US Capitol attack. Either trailing or neck and neck with Trump in recent polls, the 81-year-old Democrat will frame his likely Republican rival […]
•Dog eats owner’s $4000 cash A dog named Cecil in Pennsylvania has gone viral for eating $4,000 cash left out by his owners. According to BBC, the funds were intended to pay a contractor. Clayton and Carrie Law, Cecil’s owners, discovered most of the chewed-up cash after searching through Cecil’s waste and vomit, but $450 […]...
Hampered by bad weather and damaged roads, Japanese rescuers searched today for 222 people still missing four days after a devastating earthquake as the death toll approached 100. Two elderly women were pulled from the rubble yesterday, but hopes of finding other survivors after the 7.5 magnitude quake on New Year’s Day were fading with [&hell...
•Mourners carry coffin of late Hamas deputy leader, Saleh al-Aruri Hundreds of people attended the funeral in Beirut today of Hamas number two Saleh al-Aruri who was killed in a Lebanon strike blamed on Israel. Calling on Hamas to avenge his death and the killing of five other members of the Palestinian militant group on […]
•Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced today the suspension of an MP who took a gun to a New Year’s Eve party where someone was shot with it. Emanuele Pozzolo, a lawmaker for Meloni’s far-right Brothers of Italy party, has admitted owning the mini revolver but says he did not fire […]
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