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UN Chief Mourns Ex-Pakistani Leader Musharraf
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed his condolences on the death of Pakistan’s former President, Pervez Musharraf. According to a Pakistani military statement, Musharraf died in Dubai after a long illness at the Dubai American Hospital. He was 79 years old. Guterres expressed his heartfelt condolences to the former President’s family and the people of Pakistan in a statement issued by...
South Korea’s First Transgender Soldier, Byun-Hee Confirmed Dead At Age 23
Byun-Hee who was identified as the first transgender in South Korea which led to his sack in the South Korean military is reported dead. Firefighters found 23-year-old Byun Hee-soo at her home in Cheongju, south of Seoul, after a mental health counselor called emergency services to report that she had not been heard from since Sunday. Yonhap news agency reported...
Gaza Tower Housing Al Jazeera Office Destroyed By Israeli Attack (Video)
A building that housed international media offices including Al Jazeera’s in the Gaza Strip has been hit by an Israeli air raid that demolished the structure. https://youtu.be/CyWAhU4NVes It was not immediately clear if there were casualties in Saturday’s attack. Live Al Jazeera video showed the 11-storey al-Jalaa building, which also houses several residences and other offices, crashing to the ground after...
US Did Not Provide “Specific Targeting Information” For Russian Warship, Pentagon Says
The Pentagon denied providing "specific targeting information" to Ukraine to sink the Moskva, a Russian guided-missile cruiser that was the flagship of Moscow's fleet in the Black Sea. "We did not provide Ukraine with specific targeting informatio...
Myanmar Junta Orders Week Of National Mourning After Devastating Quake
Myanmar's ruling junta announced a week of national mourning on Monday for the victims of the country's devastating earthquake, which has claimed the lives of over 1,700 people. The official mourning period runs until April 6, the junta said in a statement, with national flags to fly at half-mast. AFP Details later…
WhatsApp Restricted In Equatorial Guinea Amid Sex Scandal
The Equatorial Guinean government has banned its citizens from using WhatsApp to download and share multimedia files over mobile data. This decision was followed by the guidelines that the country’s government gave to telecommunications operators when it urged them to implement measures to restrict access to inappropriate content. The country’s Director General, National Financial Investigation Agency, Baltasar Engonga, was enmeshed in a...
Greek Authorities To Release Seized Russian Tanker
A Russian crude oil tanker seized last week by Greek authorities will be released, a government spokesperson confirmed on Thursday. Greece impounded the tanker with 19 Russian crew members on board on April 15th as part of the EU sanctions. The spoke...
Vietnam Noodle Vendor Jailed For Five Years
A noodle vendor in Vietnam who parodied one of the country's most powerful ministers has been jailed for five-and-a-half years for anti-state propaganda. Bui Tuan Lam became famous when he posted a video in 2021 mimicking the trademark gestures of the high-end London-based restaurateur Salt Bae. A minister had been previously filmed eating a gold-leaf-covered steak in a Salt Bae video,...
Woman Robs Bank With Toy Gun To Pay For Sister’s Cancer Treatment
A woman held up a Beirut bank Wednesday with a toy gun and walked out with thousands of dollars to pay for treatment for her ill sister, in a desperate heist cheered by many in crisis-hit Lebanon. It was the latest in a series of heists in Lebanon, where the savings of depositors have been devalued and trapped in banks...
Wuhan Officially Bans Eating Of Wild Animals
Authorities in Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, have officially banned eating, hunting and breeding wild animals. A notice on the city's municipal government website said the ban will come into immediate effect and will last for five years. ABN TV reported that the novel coronavirus was first recorded in Wuhan late last year and the outbreak was linked to a seafood market where live animals...
