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FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried To Testify At His US Crypto Trial

October 26, 2023 admin

Sam Bankman-Fried was once one of the most respected figures in crypto. (File) New York: Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, plans to make another high-stakes gamble and testify in his own defense at his criminal fraud trial. Sam Bankman-Fried’s decision to take the stand comes after three weeks of devastating testimony…

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US Woman Leaves Children In Unlocked Car To Go Into Bar, Arrested

October 26, 2023 admin

Gunn has a criminal history consisting of contempt of court A Florida woman was arrested after she left her two young children inside an SUV parked outside a local bar over the weekend in Melbourne, Australia. The police arrested Jamie Leigh Gunn, 33 on Sunday after they found her children, 2-year-old and 8-year-old sleeping in…

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Pakistan sets up deportation centres to hold migrants who are in the country illegally

October 26, 2023 admin

Local residents and Afghan nationals during a protest rally in the southwestern border town of Chaman, Pakistan, on October 26, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan is setting up deportation centres for migrants who are in the country illegally, including an estimated 1.7 million Afghans, officials said on October 26. Anyone found staying in the…

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Customer Freed After Being Locked Inside Vault For 10 Hours In US

October 26, 2023 admin

Crews maintained communication with the trapped individual by phone A 23-year-old customer had to spend nearly 10 hours inside a giant vault in Manhattan’s Diamond District. The customer got trapped inside the building at 580 Fifth Avenue around 7 p.m. and was finally freed around 6 a.m. on Wednesday, as reported by ABC News. It…

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Al Jazeera Anchor Chokes Up As He Announces Colleague’s Family’s Death In Gaza

October 26, 2023 admin

The host who announced the news was seen choking up live on television. New Delhi: Tragic stories have been emerging from the Gaza Strip where civilians every day are becoming the collateral damage of an all-out war between its ruler Hamas and Israel. Yesterday, the family of an Al Jazeera journalist was killed in an…

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Qatar court hands death sentence to eight former Indian Navy officials; ‘deeply shocked’ MEA exploring all legal options

October 26, 2023 admin

Image for representation purpose only. A Qatar court on October 26 handed death sentence to eight former Indian Navy officials who are currently detained in in the Gulf country. Reacting to the verdict, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said it is “deeply shocked” and is “awaiting detailed judgement”. “We have initial information that the…

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History of the Israel-Palestine conflict – A podcast series

October 26, 2023 admin

The Israel-Palestine conflict has turned into a giant humanitarian crisis since October 2023, with thousands of civilians, including women children being killed. International public opinion has become sharply polarised into two camps – those defending Israel’s right to do whatever it wants to wipe out Hamas, and those calling for an immediate ceasefire, humanitarian aid…

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Hijab-Wearing Woman Attacked In Broad Daylight In UK, Internet Calls It ‘Appalling”

October 26, 2023 admin

Police have arrested a 57-year-old man on suspicion of assault. A video has surfaced on the internet showing a hooded man in the UK attacking a Muslim woman in broad daylight in a suspected racist attack, Metro reported. A video of the incident that has gone viral shows the woman wearing hijab standing on a…

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Biden says progress on India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor could be one of the reasons for Hamas’ attack on Israel

October 26, 2023 admin

President Joe Biden and Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hold a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on, Oct. 25, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Joe Biden has said that he is convinced that one of the reasons why Hamas launched a terrorist attack on Israel was…

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Girl’s Plea Before Mother Dies In Israeli Strike

October 26, 2023 admin

New Delhi: “Help us stay alive…” – a plaintive and desperate plea from a young girl and her brother from the Gaza Strip. The two are the children of senior Al Jazeera journalist Wael Al Dahdouh, and their heart-breaking plea was made just days before their mother and two siblings were killed in an Israeli…

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