Category: World News
Ivy league profs turn on each other after Columbia economist claims Ukraine war could be ‘next Afghanistan’
Fox News A group of hundreds of economics professors signed on to an open letter to Columbia University Professor Jeffery Sachs, arguing the Ivy League economist has pushed Russian propaganda in his writings about the war in Ukraine. “Your interventions present a distorted picture of the origins and intentions of the Russian invasion, mix facts…
Read MoreSeparatist Indian movement’s Twitter bots spread violent messages
Washington Post Backers of the Khalistani movement are using multiple networks of linked accounts to blast out videos and calls for action simultaneously, before Twitter’s reduced safety staff can respond. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/10/india-sikhs-punjab-khalistani-twitter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreIsraeli PM retracts firing of defense minister amid tension
Washington Post Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has retracted his decision to fire his defense minister over criticism of the government’s contentious plan to overhaul the judiciary https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/10/israel-netanyahu-judiciary/c373a53a-d7cc-11ed-aebd-3fd2ac4c460a_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read More2 dead, 20 missing after migrant boat sinks off Tunisia
Fox News At least two migrants have died and about 20 others are missing after their boat sank over the weekend in the Mediterranean Sea between Tunisia and Italy, German aid group ResQship said on Monday. ResQship said its rescuers reached the area of the wreck on Saturday and found about 25 people in the…
Read MoreAvalanche kills 6, including mountain guides in French Alps
Fox News The death toll from Sunday’s avalanche in the French Alps rose to six, including two mountain guides, local authorities said Monday. The prosecutor’s office in Bonneville, in the Haute-Savoie region, said the body of a sixth person was found after searches resumed on Monday morning. The prefecture of Haute-Savoie said one person was…
Read MoreIndia asks other countries to increase COVID testing as cases climb
Fox News India’s federal government asked states to identify emergency hotspots and ramp up-testing for COVID-19, after the country recorded its highest daily case count since September, a Reuters tally showed on Friday. There were 6,050 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the federal health ministry said on Friday, continuing a sharp…
Read MoreSlovenia’s emergency rescue teams save 4 French citizens who were stuck in bad weather in the Alps
Fox News Slovenia’s emergency mountain teams on Monday rescued four French citizens who were stuck in bad weather in the Alps, the rescue service said. The operation on the Skuta mountain came a day after dozens of emergency workers used helicopters to rescue another five people swept away by an avalanche in an Alpine region…
Read MoreIndia grapples with shrinking female workforce as population soars
Fox News Sheela Singh cried the day she handed in her resignation. For 16 years, she had been a social worker in Mumbai, India’s frenetic financial capital, and she loved the work. But her family kept telling her she needed to stay at home to take care of her two children. She resisted the pressure…
Read MoreThousands of UK doctors set to hold 4-day walkout in Britain, officials believe it could be ‘catastrophic’
Fox News Britain is bracing for a four-day walkout by tens of thousands of doctors at the state-funded health care system that one official warned Monday could be “catastrophic” and postpone up to 350,000 appointments. The strike due to start Tuesday by National Health Service doctors early in their careers comes amid walkouts by public…
Read MorePakistanis living overseas sent $2.5 billion back home in March as country grapples with economic crisis
Fox News Pakistanis living abroad have sent $2.5 billion home in March, responding to the cash-strapped government’s appeal for more hard currency remittances, the country’s central bank said Monday. The sum represents a 27.4% increase compared to February and is the highest in seven past months, according to a tweet by the State Bank of…
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