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Pupil kills nine, wounds 13 in new Turkey school shooting
AFP, Published on 15/04/2026
» ISTANBUL - A 13-year-old opened fire at a Turkish school on Wednesday, killing nine people and wounding 13, with students jumping from windows to escape the second school shooting in the country in as many days, officials said.
California jury finds Meta, YouTube liable for social media addiction
AFP, Published on 26/03/2026
» LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday found Meta and YouTube liable for harming a young woman through the addictive design of their social media platforms, ordering the companies to pay $3 million in damages and opening the door to potentially far larger punitive awards.
Landmark trial opens for Turkish opposition champion Imamoglu
AFP, Published on 09/03/2026
» SILIVRI — Istanbul's jailed mayor Ekrem Imamoglu went on trial on Monday in a sprawling corruption case critics say is a politically motivated bid to scupper his chances of challenging President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Nasa delivers harsh assessment of botched Boeing Starliner test flight
AFP, Published on 20/02/2026
» WASHINGTON — The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) on Thursday blamed what it called engineering vulnerabilities in Boeing's Starliner spacecraft along with internal agency mistakes in a sharply critical report assessing a botched mission that left two astronauts stranded in space.
Iranian jet fuel keeps Myanmar bombers flying
Gavin Finch and Devjyot Ghoshal, Reuters, Published on 27/01/2026
» The first bomb to strike the remote village of Vanha in western Myanmar came from a junta warplane. It hit the only school in the hamlet, near the frontline of the civil war. The second came from a drone minutes later.
All fatalities in Korean air crash were preventable, report says
The New York Times, Published on 10/01/2026
» SEOUL — Everyone on board a Jeju Air flight that crashed and killed 179 people just over a year ago would have survived if a concrete wall at the end of the runway had instead been built with materials that break apart easily, a previously undisclosed report to the South Korean government says.
Inside the Philippines’ $2-billion flood-control scandal
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/12/2025
» Senator Francis Pangilinan leaned into his microphone and fired off numbers in pesos: 50 million? 10 million? 100 million? “You withdrew this in cash?”
Dutch anti-blackface group declares victory
AFP, Published on 05/12/2025
» AMSTERDAM - A cherished Christmas tradition for some, profoundly insulting for others, the Dutch character “Black Pete”, a servant who helps Santa Claus distribute presents, has divided opinion in The Netherlands for decades.
UN rights council orders probe of Sudan atrocities
AFP, Published on 14/11/2025
» GENEVA - The UN Human Rights Council on Friday ordered investigators to probe alleged atrocities in El-Fasher in Sudan and to seek to identify perpetrators so they can be brought to justice.
DR Congo ex-rebel leader Lumbala's war crimes trial opens in Paris
AFP, Published on 12/11/2025
» PARIS — Former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala goes on trial in Paris Wednesday over atrocities committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo's bloody eastern conflict more than two decades ago.