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Smoke rises from the area in the direction of Avdiivka in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict, as seen from Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, October 11, 2023. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Ukraine’s armed forces said Thursday they were withstanding Russian attacks on the eastern town of Avdiivka, after Moscow said it had improved its position there. The…
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Joceyln Kwek faces multiple charges of cheating. A married woman in Singapore has been arrested for cheating 10 people, including three men who fell in love with her. According to South China Morning Post (SCMP), 49-year-old Joceyln Kwek got the three men to transfer large sums of money to her. Shockingly, one of these individuals…
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Some students were “seriously affected” by the movie. A school in Florida, United States, has come under fire after a mathematics teacher showed a horror movie to fourth graders which left them traumatised, as per a report in the New York Post. The students were expecting to have a fun day at school, however, it…
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Syrian state media reported that Israeli airstrikes on Thursday hit the international airports of the Syrian capital Damascus and the northern city of Aleppo, damaging their runways and putting them out of service. State news agency SANA quoted an unnamed military official as saying that no one was hurt in the attacks. The Israeli military…
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Smoke billows from burning tyres and pallets and fireworks as a few hundred protesters riot in the Rosengard neighbourhood of Malmo, Sweden, on August 28, 2020. Far-right activists burned a Quran in the southern Swedish city of Malmo, sparking riots and unrest after more than 300 people gathered to protest, police said. File | Photo…
All flights in and out of Syria have been cancelled, reports said (Representational) Israeli strikes targeted Syria’s two main airports on Thursday, Syrian state television said, in the first such attack since a Hamas assault on Israel at the weekend triggered fierce fighting. “Israeli aggression targets Damascus and Aleppo airports,” the state television reported on…
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FILE PHOTO: Police officers use a hose in effort to extinguish wildfires in Ogan Ilir regency, South Sumatra province, Indonesia, September 20, 2023, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. | Photo Credit: Antara Foto/Nova Wahyudi As the world gears up for COP28, there is alarming data on the horizon. The year 2023 is on…
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Palestinians lined up outside bakeries and grocery stores in Gaza on Thursday after spending the night surrounded by the ruins of pulverized neighborhoods darkened by a near-total power outage. Israel launched new airstrikes and said it was preparing for a possible ground invasion. International aid groups warned that the death toll in Gaza could mount…
Gaza City: The death count in the Gaza Strip has risen to at least 1,354, the Hamas health ministry said, with dozens killed since Thursday morning following a massive Israeli bombardment of the enclave. At least “1,354 citizens have been martyred and 6,049 suffered various injuries”, the ministry said, updating an earlier death count of…
A schematic diagram showing the four-step cycle of the quantum engine. | Photo Credit: Koch, J., Menon, K., Cuestas, E. et al. A quantum engine in the BEC–BCS crossover. Nature621, 723–727 (2023). Physicists in Germany have come up with a way to convert the energy difference between two quantum states of a group of atoms…
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