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Azerbaijani leader asks Russia to ‘admit guilt’ in plane crash
Ilham Aliyev accuses Russia of firing at Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft and trying to cover up cause of disaster.
Categories: South Asia
The world should not forget Afghanistan
In 2024, Afghanistan's multiple crises worsened, and yet little help was extended to it. Afghans feel abandoned.
Categories: South Asia
Is China worried about Trump’s threats of a trade war?
Chinese analyst Victor Gao argues that the US will not be able to stop China’s growth.
Categories: South Asia
Twenty-day-old baby dies of cold in Gaza, fifth such fatality this winter
Jumaa al-Batran is fifth infant to die from winter-related causes as Israeli genocide causes harsh living conditions.
Categories: South Asia
Senegal’s foreign minister on sovereignty, alliances, and change
Yassine Fall discusses Senegal’s vision for economic independence and diplomacy.
Categories: South Asia
Calls for Israel to release director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital
Israel’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital has been condemned amid demands to release director whose whereabouts are unknown.
Categories: South Asia
Video: Georgia’s new president sworn in as predecessor refuses to step down
Mikheil Kavelashvili has been sworn in as Georgia’s new president in parliament.
Categories: South Asia
Bumrah gives India a shot at victory, but Australia lead by 333
Australia's tail pushes the lead past 300 on fourth day of fourth Test but Jasprit Bumrah keeps Indian hopes alive.
Categories: South Asia
How ‘scientist’ whales are helping uncover the secrets of climate change
Southern right whales are thriving again. Now they face an even bigger threat – the Anthropocene era.
Categories: South Asia
Polls close in Chad’s contentious parliamentary election
Opposition boycotts vote for a new parliament, provincial assemblies and local councils, citing fears of vote rigging.
Categories: South Asia
Video: Jeju Air plane crashes and explodes during landing in South Korea
A plane crash has killed almost everyone on board the South Korean Jeju Air Flight 2216.
Categories: South Asia
New Georgian president sworn in as predecessor refuses to stand aside
Mikheil Kavelashvili sworn in as Georgia's new president as pro-EU predecessor refuses to recognise his legitimacy.
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Calls for the release of Gaza hospital director detained by Israel
Palestinians, campaigners express concern after Abu Safia and others from Kamal Adwan Hospital are detained by Israel.
Categories: South Asia
A Year of Youth Protests: Reclaiming Power
On The Stream: We look back at various student protest movements prompted by young people in 2024.
Categories: South Asia
Passenger plane crashes at South Korean airport, killing 179
Most of the 181 people on board are presumably dead, making it one of the worst aviation disasters to hit South Korea.
Categories: South Asia
Chad votes in first parliamentary election in over a decade: What to know
The Central African nation delayed elections citing financial challenges and the COVID pandemic.
Categories: South Asia
Johnson & Hancock awarded Nobel prize for work on ‘not following the science’
The thorny question of whether or not the UK government was really following the science has been solved by this year’s Nobel Laureates.
Johnson and Hancock’s valuable research over the last 18 months hypothesised what would happen if senior members of a government told everyone they were following the science but, in fact, were ‘not following the science at all.’
A spokesperson for the Nobel medicine Committee said the UK team’s ‘doing the exact opposite’ research project allowed us to make sense for the first time the government thinking behind such policies as:
– The ‘delay in taking any action whatsoever’ strategy
– The ‘not stopping flights coming to the UK from Wuhan until the day before the Chinese locked down the city; strategy
– The ‘Boris Johnson still shaking hands despite warnings from the Spi-behavioural group’ strategy
– The ‘let’s go for herd immunity’ strategy
– The ‘don’t bother with facemasks’ strategy
– The ‘we’re not listening to the WHO’ strategy
– The ;send PPE to China even though we might need it’ strategy
– The ‘abandoning the idea of a circuit-break lockdown’ strategy
– The ‘let massive sporting events with massive crowds go ahead’ strategy
The spokesperson also praised the Johnson & Hancock team for investigating what caused some cabinet ministers such as Rishi Sunak to go completely rogue, although they didn’t have time to come to any firm conclusions. He set up his EAT OUT TO HELP OUT strategy without asking any scientists or any advice whatsoever.
‘This is understandable as it would have detracted from the already excellent hypothesis that the team had on their main subject’, said the spokseperson. ‘However, they’ve not ruled out further explorations into the ‘I’m a minister, I’ll do what I f*cking well want if it means getting the cash tills of business ringing,’ strategy.’
Categories: Fake News
Fears for life expectancy in Scotland triggered by Scottish Widows getting so much younger
Population forecasters are tinkling in their tighty whities. The clearest indication yet that life expectancy in Scotland is plummeting has sent shockwaves through the back of a fag packet totter community.
Experts in looking at women and assessing their relative ages examined Scottish Widows adverts over the past few decades and have declared that they are definitely getting younger. Professor Iain James explained, ‘We went back all of the way to the the 1980s and had a stab at guessing the ages of each Scottish Widow smirking knowingly in her black hooded cape.
‘What we found was shocking. Firstly, there was not one wrinkly old Scottish Widow with missing teeth in her 70s. There was one who might have been in her late forties, but her skin was as smooth as a plump haggis and her perfect white teeth glistened in the Glasgow rain.
‘But I’m afraid it gets much sexier. You can see that every few years each one is replaced with a younger model: Early forties; then late thirties; and by the 2010s she is early thirties, tops.
‘In the latest Scottish Widows advert she looks about 23. That can’t mean anything else other than the men they were married to are dying much, much younger than we had previously dared consider.
‘At these rates, we estimate the population of Scotland will be -17 in 2041.’
Categories: Fake News
