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  • A large-scale arrest campaign in the West Bank

    A large-scale arrest campaign in the West Bank

    Israeli occupation forces launched a massive arrest campaign in the …

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  • 7 Palestinians killed, including a journalist, in the Gaza Strip

    7 Palestinians killed, including a journalist, in the Gaza Strip

    Journalist Ahmed Mansour was killed, along with six other civilians, …

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  • US Supreme Court upholds deportations under Alien Enemies Act | Donald Trump News

    US Supreme Court upholds deportations under Alien Enemies Act | Donald Trump News

    The ruling says the Trump administration can invoke the law, but deportees have the right to challenge their removal.

    The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the administration of President Donald Trump can continue to deport Venezuelan migrants under an 18th-century wartime law, but ordered that they be granted “reasonable time” to appear before a judge.

    In a 5-4 ruling, the US top court on Monday overturned an order from a lower federal court that sought to temporarily block…

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  • Wave of Kashmir disappearances, mystery deaths spook tribal community | Conflict

    Wave of Kashmir disappearances, mystery deaths spook tribal community | Conflict

    Kulgam, Indian-administered Kashmir — When Showkat Ahmad’s body was found, it had sores and a bloodied eye. His hair was falling out, and the skin on the 18-year-old’s hands and legs was peeling off, recalled his father, Mohamad Sadiq.

    That was March 16, three days after Sadiq had learned that his elder son, Riyaz, 25, had also died, a month after the two young men had disappeared.

    According to the official verdict of law enforcement officials, Showkat and Riyaz drowned in a canal in…

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  • Nose job boom in Iran where procedure can boost social status

    Nose job boom in Iran where procedure can boost social status

    All of the women in Iranian model Azadeh’s family have had nose surgeries, each feeling the pressure to conform with Western beauty standards in a country where female bodies are heavily policed.

    To Azadeh, smoothing out the bump in what Iranians would call the “Persian nose” she was born with proved a lucrative investment.

    Since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iranian women have been required to dress modestly and cover their hair, and the beauty industry has become almost entirely centred on…

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  • Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,139 | Russia-Ukraine war News

    Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,139 | Russia-Ukraine war News

    These are the key events on day 1,139 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

    Here is where things stand on Tuesday, April 8:

    Fighting

    • Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its units intercepted and destroyed 19 Ukrainian drones overnight, of which 13 were destroyed over the Sea of Azov.
    • The ministry also said Ukraine attacked Russia’s energy infrastructure six times in the past 24 hours despite a mutually agreed moratorium on energy strikes. It said the attacks hit power facilities and electrical…

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  • South Korea sets June 3 as date of election to replace Yoon | Elections News

    South Korea sets June 3 as date of election to replace Yoon | Elections News

    Prime Minister Han Duck-soo announces date of vote to choose a successor to impeached ex-leader Yoon Suk-yeol.

    South Korea will hold a snap election on June 3 to replace Yoon Suk-yeol, following the former president’s removal from office over his short-lived declaration of martial law, the country’s acting president has said.

    Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, the acting president, said on Tuesday that the government had decided on the date in consideration of the “need to ensure smooth…

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  • Global temperatures at near historic highs in March: EU monitor

    Global temperatures at near historic highs in March: EU monitor

    Global temperatures hovered at historic highs in March, Europe’s climate monitor said on Tuesday, prolonging an extraordinary heat streak that has tested scientific expectations.

    In Europe, it was the hottest March ever recorded by a significant margin, said the Copernicus Climate Change Service, driving rainfall extremes across a continent warming faster than any other.

    The world meanwhile saw the second-hottest March in the Copernicus dataset, sustaining a near-unbroken spell of record or…

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  • US stock market sinks lower after wild swings over Trump’s tariff plans | Financial Markets

    US stock market sinks lower after wild swings over Trump’s tariff plans | Financial Markets

    US president threatens additional 50 percent tariff on China, as Beijing pledges to fight trade salvoes ‘to the end.’

    US stocks have mostly closed lower after a day of wild swings in the market, as investors scramble to make sense of United States President Donald Trump’s tariff plans.

    The benchmark S&P500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday fell 0.23 percent and 0.91 percent, respectively, racking up a third conservative day of losses.

    The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite finished…

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  • Shingles Vaccine Reduces Dementia Risk by 20% in Seniors

    Shingles Vaccine Reduces Dementia Risk by 20% in Seniors

    Older adults who received the shingles vaccine were 20% less likely to develop dementia over the next seven years than those who didn’t receive the vaccine. The corresponding study was published in Nature. 

    Previous research based on health records suggests a link between the shingles vaccine and lower rates of dementia. These studies, however, suffered from a major source of bias: vaccinated people also tend to be more health conscious, meaning that…

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