Knife attack in Nice The Tunisian man who killed three people in a French church only recently arrived in Europe, officials say. The suspect, 21, had an Italian Red Cross document, issued after he arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa by migrant boat last month. He was shot by police and is in a […]
By Preeti Jha BBC News New Zealand has voted to legalise euthanasia in what campaigners call “a victory for compassion and kindness”. Preliminary referendum results showed 65.2% of voters supported the End of Life Choice Act 2019 coming into force as a new law. It will allow terminally ill people, with less than six months […]
By Secunder Kermani BBC News Al-Qaeda is still “heavily embedded” within the Taliban in Afghanistan, in spite of a historic US-Taliban agreement earlier this year, a senior United Nations official has told the BBC. Earlier this year, the US signed an agreement with the Taliban committing to withdrawing all American forces from the country by […]
By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Fast but less accurate “rapid antigen tests” now account for 60% of all coronavirus tests in India, the head of a top diagnostic firm estimated on Wednesday, warning that such a high use could misrepresent the actual spread of the infection. Antigen devices return results in about 15 […]
By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR,India (Reuters) – India has amended a law in Jammu and Kashmir allowing Indian citizens to buy land in the disputed territory, said officials, sparking opposition criticism about a steady erosion of the rights of Kashmiri people. A notification issued on Tuesday stated that the term “being permanent resident of the state” as […]
Biden was quoting the pope and stressing unity in America, but the Trump campaign made it look as if he was confused while speaking at a Georgia rally. By Jeremy Blum, HuffPost US The Trump campaign took a speech in which Joe Biden quoted Pope Francis on Tuesday and deceptively edited the footage to make […]
The South Carolina senator has latched himself to an unpopular president he once derided as racist and unfit for office. Now, he’s running as Trump’s top defender. By Igor Bobic, HuffPost US GREENVILLE, S.C. ― Lindsey Graham has a real race on his hands and he knows it. The Republican senator is being squeezed from […]
By Reuters Staff BENGALURU (Reuters) – Indian online grocery startup BigBasket is in advanced talks to sell a majority stake for about $1 billion to salt-to-software conglomerate Tata Group, the Economic Times reported on Wednesday, citing three sources familiar with the matter. The century-old group has been planning to launch a “super app”, one that […]
By Saurabh Sharma LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) – Health authorities in one of India’s most populous states faced a big test on Wednesday with the country’s first state assembly election being held since the novel coronavirus epidemic began, despite calls to postpone it. The world’s biggest democracy has one of its worst outbreaks of the coronavirus, with […]
US election 2020 The US presidential election takes place 3 November. But it’s possible the candidate with the most votes from the public won’t be the winner. This is because the president is not chosen directly by the voters, but what’s known as the electoral college. So who are Americans voting for? When Americans go […]
