At least 50 dead
GOMA, Oct 03 (AP): 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...
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Deadly Israeli strike on central Beirut: 9 killed
BEIRUT, Oct 03 (BBC/AFP): Overnight Israeli air strikes on central Beirut killed nine people, Lebanese officials say. Israel carried out a deadly air raid Thursday on a Hezbollah rescue facility in central Beirut, Lebanese sources said, after multiple Israeli ground troops were killed near the border.The second strike targeting the...
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Trump 'resorted to crimes' to overturn 2020 election
WASHINGTON, Oct 03 (AFP): Donald Trump launched a "private criminal effort" to subvert the 2020 US election and should not be shielded by presidential immunity, Special Counsel Jack Smith said in a court filing unsealed on Wednesday.Smith, in a 165-page motion arguing for the historic case against Trump to move...
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S’pore ex-minister jailed for graft
SINGAPORE CITY, Oct 03 (BBC): Subramaniam Iswaran, a senior cabinet minister in Singapore's government, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison in a high-profile trial that has gripped the wealthy nation.Iswaran, 62, pleaded guilty to accepting gifts worth more than S$403,000 ($311,882; £234,586) while in public office, as well...
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News in Brief -2024-10-04
Palestinian activist wins prizefor peaceful resistanceSTOCKHOLM, Oct 03: Palestinian activist Issa Amro on Thursday accepted the Right Livelihood prize-considered by some an alternative Nobel-for his "nonviolent resistance to Israel's illegal occupation" in the West Bank, the jury said. Amro was born in the city of Hebron, a flashpoint West Bank...
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