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Hacked Elmo X account called for extermination of Jews: US media
AFP, Published on 14/07/2025
» WASHINGTON - The X account of Sesame Street's Elmo, a beloved children's TV character, shared antisemitic and anti-Donald Trump posts after being hacked, US media reported Monday.
Cannabis changes 'harm economy'
News, Published on 07/07/2025
» Cannabis advocates will hold a mass rally at the Ministry of Public Health on Monday to protest the government's campaign to recriminalise the plant three years after it was removed from the national narcotics list.
Myanmar junta releases 93 child soldiers after UN criticism
Reuters, Published on 04/07/2025
» NAY PYI DAW - Myanmar's ruling junta said on Friday it has already discharged 93 minors from military service, responding to a United Nations (UN) report last month accusing it and its allies of recruiting over 400 children, many in combat roles.
Pro-Palestinian protest leader details 104 days spent in US custody
AFP, Published on 24/06/2025
» NEW YORK - Mahmoud Khalil, one of the most prominent leaders of pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses, recounted his experience surviving 104 days in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention after being targeted for deportation by the Trump administration.
Tens of thousands join pro-Palestinian marches across Europe
AFP, Published on 22/06/2025
» LONDON - Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched in European cities calling for an end to the war in Gaza, hours before President Donald Trump said the US military had attacked three Iranian nuclear sites Sunday.
Airport addiction
Postbag, Published on 07/06/2025
» Re: "PM wants airport smoking areas 'to meet standards'", (BP, June 5).
French surgeon gets maximum term for abusing hundreds of children
AFP, Published on 28/05/2025
» VANNES, France - A French court on Wednesday gave the maximum 20-year jail term to a surgeon who admitted sexually abusing hundreds of patients, most of them children, during more than two decades.
French surgeon says deserves no 'leniency' after decades of abusing patients
AFP, Published on 26/05/2025
» VANNES (FRANCE) - A French surgeon who sexually abused hundreds of patients over two decades, most of them minors, said Monday he was asking for no "leniency" as his three-month trial nears a verdict.
Rescuers say 9 children of Gaza doctor couple killed in Israeli strike
AFP, Published on 25/05/2025
» GAZA CITY (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Gaza's civil defence agency said Saturday that an Israeli strike in the southern city of Khan Yunis killed nine children of a pair of married doctors, with the Israeli army saying it was reviewing the reports.
Gaza rescuers say children among 33 killed in Israeli strikes
AFP, Published on 18/05/2025
» GAZA CITY (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes on Sunday killed at least 33 people, more than half of them children, a day after Israel announced an expanded military campaign in the besieged territory.