Tag: World Health Organisation
Britain celebrates 75th anniversary of ‘Windrush’ arrivals
LONDON: Prince William said Britain was a better place thanks to the “Windrush generation”, as the nation on Thursday celebrated the 75th anniversary of the…
Lawyers elect leader with clout in Israel’s judicial crisis
JERUSALEM: Israeli lawyers held a leadership election on Tuesday with an eye on candidates’ potential influence over the make-up of a panel for selecting judges,…
2 dead, 3 hurt in shooting at Washington state music festival
GEORGE: Two people were killed and three were injured in a shooting near a Washington state campground area hosting people attending a nearby music festival…
Building in India is the way to make an impact: Jay Vitale, CEO of Air For Life
Born in the UK, into a Gujarati family that’s spent most of their time in Rajasthan, Jay Vitale who is the CEO of British clean…
Kaczynski, Unabomber who attacked modern life, dead
WASHINGTON: Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed…
As Canada PM visits Kyiv, Zelenskyy says counteroffensive ‘taking place’
ZAPORIZHZHIA: In the south, Ukrainian soldiers are fighting on an unforgiving landscape, table-flat farmland with little cover for troops trying to advance. And 60 miles…
Former British PM Boris Johnson resigns from Parliament
LONDON – Britain’s former Prime Minister Boris Johnson abruptly resigned his parliamentary seat on Friday, another dramatic twist in the career of one of the…
4 children, including one in stroller, stabbed in France; suspect a Syrian; no terror motive yet
ANNECY: Four toddlers and two pensioners were stabbed in a knife attack in the tranquil French mountain town of Annecy on Thursday and the government…
Ukraine: Flood waters engulf homes in Ukraine as people flee
Hundreds of exhausted people, some carrying only backpacks or pets, escaped inundated villages on Wednesday as a rescue effort pressed ahead across southern Ukraine, a…
US can’t disarm convicts of non-violent crimes: Court
The US government cannot ban people convicted of non-violent crimes from possessing guns, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday. The 11-4 ruling from the…