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Earlier this month, No Other Land won the Oscar for best documentary feature. The film chronicles the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta as it resists being driven off its land by settler violence and the demolitions of the Israeli military. The film’s two protagonists, Palestinian film-maker Basel Adra and Israeli film-maker Yuval Abraham, gave … Read more
Miner worker showing stone coal Despite thousands of illegal mines identified in Telangana between 2018 and 2022, no First Information Reports (FIRs) were lodged and no court cases were filed in the State during this period, data show. But in 2023, the number of illegal mines identified surged threefold and there was a similar spurt … Read more
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin with Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu during the first day of the Budget 2025-26 session in Chennai. Various southern States have tabled their Budgets and Economic Surveys this year. An analysis of their Surveys shows that economic growth in all of these States lagged behind India’s economic growth in 2023-24. … Read more
The Israeli director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land has condemned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its response to a violent attack on his Palestinian co-director Hamdan Ballal, who was beaten by Israeli settlers and detained by Israeli forces in the West Bank on Monday. Earlier this week, Israeli journalist … Read more
The government has opened a first-of-its-kind “green” prison that will add 1,500 places to the bursting prison estate in England and Wales. HMP Millsike in East Yorkshire, described by critics as a “megaprison”, will be one of Britain’s biggest jails and is the first of four to be built as part of a programme to … Read more
The US vice-president, JD Vance, and his wife Usha are due to touch down in Greenland on Friday in a drastically scaled down trip after the original plans for the unsolicited visit prompted an international diplomatic row. The visit to Pituffik, a remote ice-locked US military base in northwestern Greenland, will be closely watched by … Read more
The new head of Stonewall has pledged to fight for a ban on conversion practices that includes “every member of the lesbian, gay, bi and trans community”, as he said that the progress of Labour’s bill may be exploited by those pursuing global attacks on LGBTQ+ rights. With the UK government expected to publish draft … Read more
The woman convicted of killing Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla-Perez has been denied parole after spending decades behind bars for fatally shooting the young singer at a Texas motel in 1995, the state’s parole board announced on Thursday. Yolanda Saldívar will continue serving a life sentence at a prison in Gatesville, Texas, after a three-member … Read more
Cashless societies may be a sad fact of modern life for those with a nostalgic attachment to the pound in their pocket, but doctors have discovered one unexpected benefit of the decline of coins. Far fewer children are having surgery after swallowing small items that could choke or kill them, and the scarcity of loose … Read more
Elon Musk and seven members of his so-called “department of government efficiency” sat down for a rare interview on Thursday evening on Fox News, defending their efforts amid public backlash and concern over cuts to key government agencies. Over the course of an hour-long sit down with host Bret Baier, Musk and team members repeatedly … Read more