A tourist has died, and three others injured after a glass walkway bridge shattered amid claims safety concerns were ignored about it. It happened on the 30ft-high Geong bridge, Indonesia, at around 10am on Wednesday.
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HIPPOCRATIC OATH: Doctor Charged For Murder For Poisoning Wife
A former medical resident Doctor at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota is charged with fatally poisoning his wife, a 32-year-old pharmacist who died days after she went to a hospital in August with stomach distress.
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UK: MP Delayed From Boarding Air Canada Flight As ‘His Name Was Mohammad’
A Labour MP was stopped from boarding a flight to Canada with other members of parliament “because his name was Mohammad”, the Commons heard on Monday.
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SOUTH AFRICA: ‘’Nelson Mandela did the same thing as Hamas’’ – Julius Malema
The leader of a South African opposition party, Julius Malema has said Hamas should “shoot to kill”, adding that Nelson Mandela “did the same thing”.
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AUSTRIA: Suspected Fake Diabetes Drug Responsible for Hospitalisation
The European Medicine Agency (EMA) is on a hunt for actors behind the counterfeits of the diabetes drug Ozempic after several people were hospitalised in Austria over suspected use of the slimming drug. Austria’s health safety body (BASG) has announced.
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U.S DOJ Recommends Police Hire People With Criminal Record
The Department of Justice (DOJ) released a set of recommendations that suggesting that police departments consider applications of individuals who had a criminal record with “isolated” incidents or had committed crimes “a long time ago”, to bolster with the relaxed standards and to consider “room for redemption” in all hiring cases.
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LION’S DEN: Biden Takes Trump To Task On Truth
President Biden’s 2014 campaign team has launched an account on former President Trump’s Truth Social, and immediately followed the former president.
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UK: African Caribbean War Heroes Given Graveside Honour
A series of poignant ceremonies have been held to commemorate heroic Soldiers of Africa-Caribbean who fought and were killed on WW1 battlefields but whose contributions were never acknowledged in history books.
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MOROCCO: World Bank Makes LGBTQ Safeguards A Condition For Resuming Ugandan Funding
The World Bank says it will aim to ensure gay and transgender in Uganda are not discriminated against in its programmes before resuming new funding, which was halted in August over an anti-LGBTQ law.
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KENYA: Police Arrest Fake Lawyer Who Won 26 Court Cases
A man accused of practising law without qualifications has been taken into custody by Kenyan police maintaining his innocence.
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