A Georgian opposition member in the Central Electoral Commission splashes its chair, Giorgi Kalandarishvili, with a black liquid. During this session, the commission confirmed the ruling party’s victory in a controversial parliamentary vote.
QUINCY JONES AWARDED POSTHUMOUS OSCAR, DAUGHTER ACCEPTS AWARD
The late Quincy Jones was posthumously awarded an honorary Oscar at a star-packed Hollywood gala on Sunday.US music industry titan Jones died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 91 just two weeks before he was set to receive one of the Academy’s coveted lifetime achievement prizes at the Governors Awards. His daughter, the actress Rashida Jones, accepted the Oscar, telling the audience that the legendary hitmaker had been “really excited to attend tonight.”Jones produced seminal Hollywood movies including “The Color Purple,” and received multiple Oscar nominations for film songs and soundtracks including “In Cold Blood” and “The Wiz.” His daughter, the...
HEZBOLLAH’S MEDIA CHIEF CONFIRMED DEAD IN ISRAELI STRIKE
The Lebanese militant group confirmed that Hezbollah’s media chief Mohammed Afif has been killed in an Israeli strike in central Beirut.A strike hit the headquarters of the Baath political party in the densely populated Ras al-Naba neighbourhood on Sunday, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported.The country’s health ministry said four people were killed, but did not name the victims.Afif, one of the few remaining public faces of the group, was last seen on Monday, when he gave a press conference in Beirut’s southern suburbs, where the group is based.Hezbollah confirmed the death on Sunday evening, several hours after it was...
MANY KILLED, SEVERAL INJURED IN ISRAELI STRIKE IN NORTHERN GAZA
Medics and residents reported that dozens of Palestinians were killed or injured in an Israeli strike on a multi-story residential building housing at least six families in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya town on Sunday.The Palestinian Civil Emergency said around 70 people were living in the property but the Gaza government media office put the number of those killed at 72.The agency, quoted by AFP, said many of the dead were women and children, with dozens stilled feared to be under the rubble. Seven people were also injured.The Israeli military said it had been striking militant targets in the northern Gaza,...
STRONG UNDERCURRENT KILLS 15-YEAR-OLD INDIAN BOY IN DUBAI, PARENTS RECOVER REMAINS A DAY AFTER
Ahmed Abdullah Mafaz, a 15-year-old Indian got drowned after getting caught in strong water currents while swimming off the Al Mamzar beach.Mafaz, a Grade 10 student at Dubai-based New Indian Model school, was reportedly out on a fun evening on Friday with his siblings and parents when the mishap happened.The deceased father narrated that the 15-year-old had his own plans with his friends but was encouraged by the father to go out with the family instead.“He had other plans to go with his friends, but we urged him to come with us,” his distraught father Mohammed Ashraf told Khaleej Times.“We had just...
INDIA’S CAPITAL SMOG EXCEEDS 60 TIMES W.H.O LIMIT, SCHOOLS CEASE PHYSICAL CLASSES.
Residents of India’s capital New Delhi choked in a blanketing toxic smog on Monday as worsening air pollution surged past 60 times the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) recommended daily maximum.Levels of PM2.5 pollutants — dangerous cancer-causing micro particles that enter the bloodstream through the lungs — peaked at 907 micrograms per cubic metre on Monday morning, according to IQAir pollution monitors, with a reading above 15 in a 24-hour period considered unhealthy by the WHO.Individual monitoring stations noted even higher levels — one recorded PM2.5 pollutants at 980, 65 times the WHO maximum.Because of the worsening toxic smog, India’s capital New Delhi shut...
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