The French authorities want to adopt a new immigration law next year, a spokeswoman said, as the new right-wing government seeks to crack down on immigration. “There will be a need for a new law,” government spokeswoman Maud Bregeon told broadcaster BFMTV on Sunday, reports AFP. The government’s plan to tighten immigration policies and border controls is emblematic of the ...
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Hezbollah drone strike kills 4, wounds dozens at Israeli base
Israel’s military said a Hezbollah drone had killed four soldiers at one of its northern bases Sunday, as it expanded its bombardments of Lebanon and troops battled militants across the border. The attack on a military training camp in Binyamina, near Haifa, is the deadliest such assault on an Israeli base since September 23, when Israel increased its attacks on ...
Read More »AFP, BBC win top French war reporting awards
The prestigious Bayeux War Correspondents’ Awards on Saturday honoured reporters from Agence France-Presse, the BBC and others documenting conflict and strife around the world. AFP photographer Mahmud Hams won the top prize for photos including his harrowing image of a woman crying during a search for victims after an Israeli strike on Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip on October ...
Read More »Nearly 7,000 people cross into Syria from Lebanon in 24 hrs: Russian military
Nearly 7,000 people entered the Syrian territory from Lebanon in the past 24 hours, Oleg Igansyuk, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria (a division of the Russian defense ministry), said. “Over the past day, as many as 6,886 people crossed Syria’s border from Lebanon via the checkpoints of Al-Arida, Al-Jawasiyeh, Al-Dabousiyah, Jisr ...
Read More »20 miners killed in Pakistan armed attack
At least 20 miners were killed and six others injured in a suspected militant attack in southwestern Pakistan, an official said on Friday. Attackers targeted miners in the Duki area of Balochistan, Kaleemullah Kakar, deputy commissioner of Duki, told reporters. According to local police, the militants also fired rockets and threw hand grenades while attacking the miners and destroyed machinery ...
Read More »Human rights activist Shahriar Kabir’s demand for the release of the chief adviser Emails from the United Nations to two human rights organizations to Yunus
By Matiar Chowdhury: The chief adviser of the interim government of Bangladesh for the release of writer-journalist and human rights activist Shahriar Kabir Two UN human rights organizations in Geneva, RADDHO and IRESK, appealed to Muhammad Yunus. Biro Diwara, RADDHO Program Manager and Chief Representative to the United Nations Geneva, and Fazlur Rahman, head of IRESK, in separate ...
Read More »Monster Hurricane Milton makes landfall, walloping coast of Florida
Hurricane Milton crashed into the Florida coast Wednesday, packing furious winds and triggering life-threatening storm surges across a region still reeling from another massive storm two weeks before. The weather front made landfall as a Category 3 storm near Siesta Key, in a densely populated area on the US state’s western coast. Milton triggered tornadoes before its arrival, with unconfirmed ...
Read More »American, Canadian win Nobel in Physics for work on AI, machine learning
The 2024 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their “foundational discoveries” that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks, reports CNN. “Although computers cannot think, machines can now mimic functions such as memory and learning. This year’s laureates in physics have helped make this possible,” the Nobel Committee said in a statement. ...
Read More »Biden warns Israel against Iran oil strikes as war fears mount
US President Joe Biden on Friday advised Israel against striking Iran’s oil facilities, saying he was trying to rally the world to avoid the escalating prospect of all-out war in the Middle East. But his predecessor Donald Trump, currently campaigning for another term in power, went so far as to suggest Israel should “hit” the Islamic republic’s nuclear sites. Making ...
Read More »50 dead after boat capsizes in eastern Congo
A boat carrying scores of passengers capsized on Lake Kivu in eastern Congo on Thursday, killing at least 50 people, witnesses told The Associated Press. It was not immediately clear exactly how many people were on board or how many perished but witnesses said they saw rescue services recover at least 50 bodies from the water. They said 10 people ...
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