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Russia’s Health Ministry said the death toll from last week’s Moscow concert hall attack rose to 140 on Wednesday after another victim died in the hospital. The massacre at Crocus City Hall on Friday night was the deadliest terrorist attack on Russian soil in almost two decades. What we know about the victims “Unfortunately, one of the injured, who was in an extremely serious condition, died,” Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency, referring to the latest fatality. “The doctors did everything possible.” Murashko added that in hospitals in Moscow and the Moscow region “there…

A British man has died in a skiing accident in France.The man, who is yet to be identified, was on a trip to the resort of Avoriaz, in France. According to local media, the man was in his 60s and hit a tree at high speed after swerving to avoid a group of people.The incident took place around 3pm local time on 26 March.Despite the efforts of the mountain rescue team to resuscitate him, he was pronounced dead at the scene. A fellow skier, who was said to have witnessed the tragedy, told the MailOnline: “The man lost control on…

A young basketball player is being put through his paces in a sports medicine lab. On command, he jumps and lands with one leg onto a force plate embedded in the floor. “I need one more,” Dr. Hauke Dewitz calls out to him. So the same procedure again: taped with reflective beads, so-called markers, and electrodes that measure muscle activity, the 16-year-old jumps again. Pain in his right knee, which has been bothering him for months, has brought him to the lab. With the controlled movements completed, now comes the analysis by the sports orthopedist treating the athlete. Based on the…

Prosecutors in Spain on Wednesday demanded a two-and-a-half year prison sentence for the former Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) President Luis Rubiales over his infamous World Cup kiss. Rubiales faces charges of sexual assault and coercion in the case of the non-consensual kiss he gave to the player Jenni Hermoso after the tournament final in Sydney last August. What the prosecutor’s office said In a document sent to Spain’s National Court in Madrid, the prosecution noted that Rubiales had held the player’s head. Then, it said, “with both hands, and in a surprising manner and without the player’s consent or acceptance,…

“Are you Tajik? If you are, cancel the ride.” This was what many taxi drivers in Russia have heard from potential customers following last Friday’s attack on the Crocus City Hall near Moscow. The attack claimed the lives of at least 139 people, either shot at point-blank range or suffocated by the smoke when the attackers set the concert hall on fire. This week, the Basmanny District Court in Moscow arrested 11 people, including seven of Tajik origin, who are suspected of committing or of being complicit in the biggest such attack Russia has witnessed in past decades. While Russia is pointing fingers at Ukraine, a…

US President Joe Biden has said that pro-Palestinian protesters who interrupted him mid-speech on Tuesday “have a point”.Two demonstrators were removed from an event in Raleigh, North Carolina on Tuesday after they cut off the president during a speech on healthcare, shouting: “What about the healthcare in Gaza?” “Everybody deserves healthcare,” Mr Biden said, as the protesters yelled that hospitals in Gaza were being bombed and alleged that Mr Biden was “complicit in genocide”.The president asked the audience to “be patient with them”.”They have a point,” he said after the protesters were escorted out. “We need to get a lot…

Whether it’s physical or psychological, bullying and other forms of peer violence among young people are nothing new. In fact, overall trends are stable. But a study of 44 countries in Europe, central Asia and Canada indicates an increase in cyberbullying since 2018. The “Health Behaviour in School-aged Children” (HBSC) study was published March 27, 2024, by WHO/Europe (World Health Organization). It identifies “the increasing digitalization of young people’s interactions” as a main cause of cyberbullying. In a same-day media release, the WHO Regional Director for Europe, Hans Kluge, said the report was “a wake-up call.” “With young people spending up to six hours…

Germany will introduce temporary controls at all its borders for the European Championship this summer, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser told the Rheinische Post newspaper on Tuesday. The measures come in the wake of the terror attack in Moscow on Friday. Faeser and Scholz say temporary border controls to keep citizens safe “We will carry out temporary border controls at all German borders during the tournament in order to prevent possible perpetrators of violence from entering the country,” Faeser told the newspaper. “This is necessary to provide the best possible protection for this major international event,” added the minister.  German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the…

India’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that it had summoned a US diplomat to protest, two days after Washington said it was closely following the arrest of a senior opposition politician and that it encouraged a “fair, transparent and timely legal process” in the case. Local broadcasters showed the senior US diplomat Gloria Berbena entering the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday.  “India’s legal processes are based on an independent judiciary which is committed to objective and timely outcomes. Casting aspersions on that is unwarranted,” the Foreign Ministry said.  “In diplomacy, states are expected to be respectful of the sovereignty and internal…

Three years since Myanmar’s military staged a coup and overthrew the democratically elected government, triggering a civil war, the junta’s grip on power is looking shakier than ever amid a growing and determined armed resistance. While dozens of anti-junta “People’s Defense Forces” (PDFs) have enlisted tens of thousands of young recruits to battle the army across the country, an alliance of ethnic minority fighters has managed to capture territory in northern Shan state, bordering China. Militias have also achieved successes in Kayin state in the southeast and in Chin state in the west.  The junta is struggling to contain the…