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Hong Kong on Tuesday passed national security laws at the behest of Beijing, thwarting decades of public resistance in a move that critics say will strike a lasting blow to the partial autonomy the city had been promised by China. Hong Kong already had a national security law, one that was imposed directly by China’s…
A Turkish lawmaker who declared that Israel “will suffer the wrath of Allah” went into cardiac arrest and collapsed on the floor of Parliament Tuesday — mere moments after delivering his harsh critique of his country’s response to the Israel-Hamas war. Startling footage shows Hasan Bitmez, 53, standing behind the podium before suddenly falling to the ground…
Israel has agreed to a series of “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza to allow for the vaccination of children against polio, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The campaign will aim to vaccinate around 640,000 children across the Gaza strip and will begin on Sunday, senior WHO official Rik Peeperkorn said. It will be rolled…
LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) – The Church of England’s governing body will debate adopting fresh commitments on homosexuality and same-sex couples when it meets later this month, it said on Friday, acknowledging that there remained “profound disagreement” on the matter. The Church of England – central to the Anglican Communion of 85 million believers across…
Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian defeated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s protege Saeed Jalili Friday to become Iran’s next president, winning the runoff election by 16.3 million votes to Jalili’s 13.5 million. Pezeshkian was the leading candidate in the first round of Iran’s sham election on June 28, but he did not clear the 50-percent threshold necessary to win outright. He…
A Japanese robot has successfully touched down on the Moon but problems with its solar power system mean the mission may live for just a few hours. The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (Slim) put itself gently on the lunar surface near an equatorial crater. The feat made the Asian nation only the fifth country…