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Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – The shocking death of Tyre Nichols after a police beating has reopened anguished debate across the United States about police violence, fueling a sense that the huge, nationwide demonstrations of 2020 have done little to solve the problem. Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, died in a hospital on January 10, […]

Published by BOOM Live By Sk Badiruddin An old image of Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan taking a selfie on his phone with Mukesh Ambani and his family members has been shared with a false claim that it was clicked after the Ambani family watched SRK’s latest release Pathaan. BOOM found that the image was

Published by Relaxnews By mel/jhb/md Territories in Brazil’s fragmented Atlantic Forest where Indigenous peoples enjoy secure land rights have seen measurably less deforestation than similar areas in which land tenure is weak or non-existent, researchers reported Thursday. Territories in Brazil’s fragmented Atlantic Forest where Indigenous peoples enjoy secure land rights have seen measurably less deforestation

Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – American health authorities proposed a further easing on Friday of AIDS-era restrictions on blood donations by gay and bisexual men. Under the current policy, gay and bisexual men, even those in monogamous relationships, must abstain from sex for three months to be eligible to donate blood. The new proposed

Published by AFP Memphis (AFP) – The southern US city of Memphis braced itself for unrest Friday as authorities prepared to release a video depicting the fatal assault of a Black man by five police officers who, the victim’s mother said, “beat him to a pulp.” The police officers, who are also Black, were charged

Published by Relaxnews By Courtesy of DS Landschapsarchitecten Plagued by ever-shrinking space to park its hundreds of thousands of bicycles, Amsterdam opened Wednesday the first of its largest-ever bicycle parking complexes, built underwater in a pioneering engineering project. Plagued by ever-shrinking space to park its hundreds of thousands of bicycles, Amsterdam opened Wednesday the first

Published by BOOM Live By Hazel Gandhi A photo of Rahul Gandhi with UK’s former Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn is being shared with a false claim that Gandhi was photographed with the producer of theBBC Documentary ‘India: The Modi Question’, which criticises the role of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Published by Kyodo News A Japanese court on Friday ordered a high court judge to pay 440,000 yen ($3,300) in damages after posting messages on social media that the bereaved family of a high school girl murdered in Tokyo found offensive. Social media posts by Kiichi Okaguchi of the Sendai High Court were “thoughtless” and

Published by AFP Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Russian forces fired dozens of missiles at Ukraine on Thursday in a blistering wave of strikes targeting energy infrastructure, a day after Germany and the United States pledged heavy tanks for Kyiv. The latest wave of attacks came as the Kremlin said Moscow perceived the tank deliveries “as

Published by uPolitics.com Former President Donald Trump mistook E. Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples in an October 2022 deposition from Carroll’s defamation case against him, according to newly released transcripts. Carroll brought the case after Trump denied her rape allegations under the Adult Survivors Act, which is a New York law that allows