Month: July 2020

The Iraqi parliament has proposed banning online multiplayer video games, amid fears they are corrupting young people and getting them hooked on violent fantasies.  Iraq’s cultural parliamentary committee submitted a draft law over the weekend seeking to ban the games, singling out the multiplayer deathmatch game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). Islamic clerics have also raised concerns […]

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Almost 300 killed – everything we know so far Victims: mother and son among five Britons killed in explosions Intelligence on threat not passed on to Sri Lankan government Reconstruction: How attacker waited at buffet before detonating  World leaders and cricket stars have reacted with horror Key intelligence on a possible terrorist attack was not passed […]

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The discovery of a series of decapitated seals left on Brittany’s beaches has shocked France and prompted a police manhunt for their killers. “People are horrified,” Julien, a resident of Concarneau in Finistère, told the Telegraph. “Whoever is killing seals and cutting off their heads has got to be truly sick.” Gautier Paris, the detective […]

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Israel and Hamas were locked in one of the bloodiest rounds of fighting since the 2014 Gaza War on Sunday night as civilian casualties mounted on both sides and Israeli forces massed for a possible ground offensive.   Four civilians were killed in southern Israel on Sunday after Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fired a barrage […]

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A jury in California on Monday ordered Bayer-owned Monsanto to pay more than $2 billion damages to a couple that sued on grounds the weed killer Roundup caused their cancer, lawyers said. The award was the latest in a series of court defeats for Monsanto over Roundup. The company insists the glyphosate-based product is not linked to cancer. The […]

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Doctors have switched life support back on for a Frenchman in a vegetative state for over a decade in an extraordinary eleventh-hour courtroom u-turn.  Vincent Lambert, 42, who was left quadriplegic and with irreversible brain damage after a traffic accident in 2008, has been at the heart of a right to die row that has split […]

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China on Tuesday slammed Mike Pompeo for "lunatic ravings and babbling nonsense" after the US secretary of state criticised Beijing’s human rights record in a statement issued on the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square carackdown. Pompeo’s statement "maliciously attacks China’s political system, denigrates the state of China’s human rights and religious affairs, wantonly criticises China’s Xinjiang policy and […]

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