LONDON: The former head of the British Army and a House of Lords peer, Richard Dannatt, urged government ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at the behest of a US arms company that employs him as an adviser, The Guardian reported on Tuesday.
He wrote privately to two Home Office ministers, requesting that they confront the…
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LONDON: The former head of the British Army and a House of Lords peer, Richard Dannatt, urged government ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at the behest of a US arms company that employs him as an adviser, The Guardian reported on Tuesday.
He wrote privately to two Home Office ministers, requesting that they confront the…
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MEZHOVA: Gazing out at his vast, sun-drenched field of wheat in eastern Ukraine, farmer Sergii Dozhenko is nervous.
“Each year, the front line gets closer,” he told AFP. “I’m scared.”
One year ago, he said, it was some 60 kilometers (37 miles) away. Russian forces have closed in half that distance since.
What’s more, their drones have in recent weeks killed farmers across his central region of Dnipropetrovsk which has largely been spared fighting that has ravaged swathes of…
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MIYUN, China: Beijing lifted a severe weather alert on Tuesday but warned residents to stay vigilant against natural disasters after authorities evacuated more than 82,000 people over fears of deadly floods in the Chinese capital.
The municipal weather office had imposed a red rainstorm warning – the highest in a four-tier system – on Monday, forecasting heavy downpours until Tuesday morning.
The office lifted the alert early Tuesday morning, saying in a…
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MIYUN, China: Beijing lifted a severe weather alert on Tuesday but warned residents to stay vigilant against natural disasters after authorities evacuated more than 82,000 people over fears of deadly floods in the Chinese capital.
The municipal weather office had imposed a red rainstorm warning – the highest in a four-tier system – on Monday, forecasting heavy downpours until Tuesday morning.
The office lifted the alert early Tuesday morning, saying in a social media statement the…
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HANOI: Vietnam has been hit by an increasing number of outbreaks of African swine fever, with the number of infected pigs more than tripling in just two weeks, state media said on Tuesday.
The country has detected 972 African swine fever outbreaks so far this year, up from 514 reported in mid-July, the Tien Phong newspaper reported.
The number of pigs infected has risen to more than 100,000 from 30,000 over the same period, the paper said, citing Vietnam’s agriculture ministry. The…
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MIYUN, China: Beijing lifted a severe weather alert on Tuesday but warned residents to stay vigilant against natural disasters after authorities evacuated more than 82,000 people over fears of deadly floods in the Chinese capital.
The municipal weather office had imposed a red rainstorm warning – the highest in a four-tier system – on Monday, forecasting heavy downpours until Tuesday morning.
The office lifted the alert early Tuesday morning, saying in a…
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SANTA MARIA, California: A massive wildfire on Monday was threatening hundreds of homes in central California after injuring at least three people as it tore through Los Padres National Forest.
The Gifford Fire scorched more than 260 square kilometers of coastal Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, and was still burning out of control, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire.
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AUSTIN, Texas: Texas Governor Greg Abbott threatened on Monday to arrest Democratic lawmakers who are using their collective absence from the state capital to prevent the legislature from adopting a Republican-backed plan for redrawing Texas congressional districts.
The exodus of more than 50 Democrats from the Texas legislature staging a kind of temporary political exile in Democratic-led states was intended to deny Republicans in Austin the quorum necessary to vote on the redistricting…
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HIROSHIMA, Japan: Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of the remaining elderly Japanese survivors are increasingly frustrated by growing nuclear threats and the acceptance of nuclear weapons by global leaders.
The US attacks on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and three days later on Nagasaki killed more than 200,000 people by the end of that year. Others survived but with radiation illness.
About 100,000 survivors are still alive. Many hid their…
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