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The 69-year-old mother of four babies who were found dead in a freezer in the US city of Boston will not face criminal charges.The bodies of the siblings – two boys and two girls – were discovered in shoe boxes wrapped in tinfoil on 17 November 2022 after a man called police. He said his wife had found them while she was cleaning his sister’s apartment in south Boston, the Suffolk County district attorney’s office said.District attorney Kevin Hayden called the investigation “one of the most complex, unusual and perplexing that this office has ever encountered”.Investigators don’t know whether the…

Rahul Gandhi, one of India’s top opposition figures, will contest in the ongoing general elections from Raebareli in the country’s north, his party, the Indian National Congress announced Friday. Gandhi is seen as a key challenger to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is vying for a third successive term after being in power since 2014. As India enters the third phase of the world’s largest democratic election, all eyes were on whether Gandhi would contest from Raebareli or the adjoining Amethi, where he lost in the last general election in 2019. The announcement came on the last day of…

A bus plunged into a deep valley in Pakistan’s mountainous northern region on Friday, killing at least 20 people. The bus was carrying around 40 passengers from the city of Rawalpindi near the capital, Islamabad, to the northern mountainous region of Gilgit-Baltistan, near the border with China, Fayyaz Ahmed, a local official, told the German DPA news agency. What do we know about the crash? The driver lost control of the vehicle on a bend near the city of Chilas in the Gilgit-Baltistan region, falling into a rocky ravine where the River Indus flows, the French AFP news agency reported.…

David Cameron has backed Ukrainian strikes against targets inside Russia using British-supplied weapons.Speaking in the Ukrainian capital, the foreign secretary said it was Ukraine’s decision on how to use the supplied equipment and Kyiv “absolutely has the right” to strike back. Britain has supplied billions of pounds worth of equipment, and on a visit to Kyiv, Lord Cameron said: “In terms of what the Ukrainians do, in our view, it is their decision about how to use these weapons, they’re defending their country, they were illegally invaded by Putin and they must take those steps.”We don’t discuss any caveats that…

The United Kingdom’s opposition Labour Party inflicted a series of defeats on the governing Conservatives, gaining control of a string of councils and the only constituency seat that was up for grabs. The losses could prove embarrassing for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, and difficult for him to ride out ahead of an upcoming general election. How bad are the results for Sunak? Labour took the constituency of Blackpool South in the northwest of England. The electoral district is part of the so-called “Red Wall” of normally Labour seats that former Prime Minister Boris Johnson flipped to the Conservatives in the last election in 2019. …

Rahul Gandhi, one of India’s top opposition figures, will contest in the ongoing general elections from Raebareli in the country’s north, his party, the Indian National Congress announced Friday. Gandhi is seen as a key challenger to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is vying for a third successive term after being in power since 2014. As India enters the third phase of the world’s largest democratic election, all eyes were on whether Gandhi would contest from Raebareli or the adjoining Amethi, where he lost in the last general election in 2019. The announcement came on the last day of…

At least 29 people have been killed in floods in Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul, in what has been described as “the most critical flooding recorded in history” by local authorities.The storms, which have caused the greatest devastation in the state in recent years, also left 60 people missing and 10,242 displaced in 154 cities, according to Rio Grande do Sul’s civil defence. “It’s not just another critical case; it’s the most critical that the state will probably have recorded in its history,” state governor Eduardo Leite said in a live broadcast on social media, adding that…

No dam is flood-proof, as flooding after days of heavy rains in southern Brazil has shown. But dam failure needn’t be deadly. Here’s what you need to know. Source link

Turkey on Thursday suspended all trade with Israel, citing the “worsening humanitarian tragedy” in Gaza. “Export and import transactions related to Israel have been stopped, covering all products,” Turkey’s trade ministry said in a statement. It said the measures would stay in place until Israel allowed “an uninterrupted and sufficient flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza.” The two countries had a trade volume of $6.8 billion (€6.3 billion) in 2023. Katz blames Erdogan for breaking agreements Earlier, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of breaking agreements by blocking Israeli exports and imports. “This is how a…

Taiwan detected a renewedincursion by Chinese aircraft around the democratically-governed island, Taiwan’s defense ministry said on Friday, as China reported that its navy had conducted combat exercises with landing craft. A statement from Taipei said that at least 14 Chinese military aircraft crossed the Taiwan Strait’s median line and entered Taiwan’s northern and central ADIZ (air defense identification zone). The median line is used to serve as an unofficial border between the two sides. However, China does not recognise the line’s existence and Chinese military aircraft now cross it regularly. The sorties come ahead of the May 20 inauguration of President…