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Turkish PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk has been released six weeks after plainclothes ICE agents bundled her into a van and held her in an immigration detention centre in Louisiana. The Trump administration had revoked her student visa over an article she co-authored criticising Tufts University’s ties to Israel.

New Delhi, India – Mukeet Shah had not slept for days, doomscrolling on his mobile phone as he remained hooked to news updates on the spiralling India-Pakistan conflict.

A phone call from his mother, Tanveera Bano, on Saturday made it worse. “Please, come back [home]. Why be apart when we can at least die together?” she urged her younger son, who studies at a university in New Delhi, the national capital.

Shah, 23, said her appeal shattered him. An hour or so later, another news flash…

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Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, released a video on Saturday, May 10, showing two Israeli captives alive in the Gaza Strip, with one of them calling to end the 19-month-long genocidal war.

The captives were identified by an Israeli family campaign as Elkana Bohbot and Yosef Ohana, who were kidnapped during the October 7, 2023 cross-border operation against the Israeli occupation.

The undated three-minute video footage shows one of the hostages, 36-year-old…

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The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Observatory said that Gaza is experiencing a silent wave of death, claiming increasing numbers of elderly and children due to the dire living conditions imposed by Israel. These conditions, including starvation, severe suffering, deprivation of healthcare, and a total blockade, are being deliberately enforced to destroy the population, constituting part of an ongoing genocide that has lasted for over 19 months.

The observatory…

A weary electorate votes in parliamentary elections after campaign dominated by EU hopes and political corruption.

Albanians are casting ballots in the general election, with Prime Minister Edi Rama seeking an unprecedented fourth term after a campaign dominated by promises of European Union membership and corruption allegations.

Polling stations opened at 7am local time (05:00 GMT) on Sunday and would close at 7pm (17:00 GMT), with results expected on Monday.

Nearly 3.7 million Albanians,…

The accident takes place near Kotmale, about 140km (86 miles) east of Colombo, in a mountainous area of central Sri Lanka.

At least 21 people have been killed and many others injured when a bus carrying dozens of Buddhist pilgrims in central Sri Lanka careened off a cliff, according to authorities.

The crash took place early on Sunday in a mountainous area near the town of Kotmale, about 140km (86 miles) east of the capital, Colombo.

“Twenty one have died and we are trying to identify the…

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The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip has said that around 1,500 citizens have lost their eyesight in the besieged enclave as a result of the ongoing Israeli war of genocide on the Strip while about 4,000 others are threatened with the same fate.

Dr. Abdulsalam Sabah, the director of the Eye Hospital in Gaza City, said in a press release on Sunday that the health sector in the Strip is suffering from acute shortage in necessary medical equipment and consumables…

Jack Della Maddalena took away Belal Muhammad’s potent wrestling ability, allowing only one takedown en route to becoming the new welterweight champion in the main event of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) 315 in Montreal, Canada.

He won the five-rounder by scores of 48-47, 48-47, 49-45 on Saturday night.

Della Maddalena used volume striking to frustrate the now-former welterweight champion, nearly finishing the fight on several occasions. Della Maddalena (18-2, Mixed Martial Arts) has…