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27 children killed after bus plunges into gorge
10Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, Featured

27 children killed after bus plunges into gorge

At least 27 children have died after a school bus plunged 200ft (60m) into a gorge in the Himalayan foothills in India. The young victims were said to be aged between 10 and 12. The accident happened in the Kangra Valley in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh. Two teachers and the bus driver were also believed to have died. At least a dozen other people were taken to hospital. Rescue teams have reached the scene. The driver was speeding and lost control at the edge of the gorge, police officer Sunil Kumar said, adding that the rescue operation would continue into the night. The bus was carrying children studying at a private school in Nurpur town, 300km (185 miles) from the state capital, Shimla. I am deeply anguished by the loss of lives, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweet...
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British bosses are facing a bigger headache than Brexit
9Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

British bosses are facing a bigger headache than Brexit

    Consumer spending or rather the lack of it, has become more worrying than Brexit for top British executives, Deloitte found. Brexit has fallen into second place as the most significant risk facing company bosses for the first time since the EU referendum, as weak domestic growth saps demand for their goods and services. According to a Deloitte survey of chief financial officers (CFOs) at some of the UK’s biggest businesses, companies are now less pessimistic about Brexit after ministers agreed the terms of a transition period with Brussels to smooth Britain’s exit from the EU. Reflecting the views of 106 companies, including almost a quarter of the FTSE 100, the survey found a fifth of business leaders were more optimistic about their firm’s prospects than they wer...
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Japanese man kept his son in cage for 20 Years
9Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, Featured

Japanese man kept his son in cage for 20 Years

    A man has been arrested in Japan for allegedly confining his son in a wooden cage for more than 20 years, according to local media reports. Yoshitane Yamasaki, 73, claimed he was forced to confine his son, now aged 42, in the box because he suffered mental health problems and sometimes became violent, reported Japanese public broadcaster NHK. The cage was reportedly one meter high and two meters wide, and was kept in a hut by the family’s home in Sanda, Kyoto. The son was reportedly first locked up in the cage when he was 16, fed every day, and washed every other day. He has been taken into the care of authorities, suffering a bent back from his prolonged confinement. According to local media reports, he has been in the care of social services officials since Jan...
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North Korea to discuss denuclearisation
9Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, Featured

North Korea to discuss denuclearisation

    North Korea has confirmed directly to the Trump administration that it is willing to negotiate with the United States over potential denuclearisation, administration officials said Sunday. The confirmation offers the administration greater assurances that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is committed to a potential meeting with President Trump by the end of next month. The U.S. has confirmed that Kim Jong Un is willing to discuss the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula, an administration official said. South Korean emissaries, in a visit to the White House last month, had presented Kim’s invitation to meet with Trump, who quickly agreed. But Pyongyang has been silent publicly since then about a summit, even as Kim visited Beijing earlier this month in his fi...
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Police cuts in UK likely behind crime rise
9Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Police cuts in UK likely behind crime rise

    Government cuts to the police may have encouraged violent offenders and have likely contributed to a rise in serious violent crime, leaked Home Office documents have revealed. The documents cast doubt on claims by the home secretary, Amber Rudd, on Sunday that cuts to the police were not to blame for rising violence. The Home Office said it would not comment on leaked documents. Rudd will on Monday launch a strategy aimed at tackling serious violent crime, which officials and ministers have been working on for months. The launch comes after a week of shooting and stabbing deaths pushed the homicide rate in London to more than 50 lives lost this year. The home secretary believes the strategy will mark a change in the approach to tackling serious violence,...
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Russia and Iran will pay for backing the Syrian regime
9Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, Featured

Russia and Iran will pay for backing the Syrian regime

    Donald Trump has warned Russia and Iran there will be a "big price to pay" for backing the Syrian regime after a suspected chemical attack. The US President condemned as mindless and SICK reports of at least 70 people being lilled, and a further 500 injured, in a alleged chlorine gas attack in the city of Douma in eastern Ghouta. The allegations have been denied by the Syrian government and Russia. He also pointed to former president Barack Obama's handling of the Syrian civil conflict and his failure to face down Mr Assad after setting a red line on the use of chemical weapons. Mr Trump added: If President Obama had crossed his stated Red Line In The Sand, the Syrian disaster would have ended long ago! Animal Assad would have been history! Foreign Secretary Bori...
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Unusual gonorrhoea symptoms you might be totally missing
8Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, Life Style

Unusual gonorrhoea symptoms you might be totally missing

    Gonorrhoea is a bacterial infection that can be transmitted via any kind of sex oral, anal, or vaginal and is thought to be the second most common STI in the UK (after Chlamydia). It's recommended all sexually active women under the age of 25 get screened for gonorrhoea annually, and that women who are older but have new or multiple sex partners continue that yearly testing. Testing is really important because gonorrhoea often occurs without any symptoms, according to Elizabeth Torrone, Ph.D., a team lead in the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Division of STD Prevention. But the infection could still be causing complications, she says. It could be leading to long-term reproductive health consequences like infertility, which isn't necessarily tied ...
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£50 backing for secret new party
8Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

£50 backing for secret new party

    A new political party with access to up to £50m in funding has been secretly under development for more than a year by a network of entrepreneurs, philanthropists and donors keen to break the Westminster mould, the Observer can reveal. The movement, spearheaded by a former Labour benefactor, is understood to have been drawn up by a group frustrated by the tribal nature of politics, the polarisation caused by Brexit and the standard of political leadership on all sides. It appears to have a centrist policy platform that borrows ideas from both left and right. Senior figures from the worlds of business and charity are understood to be involved, as well as former supporters of the main parties, including a number of former Tory donors. Some of those involved have app...
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Chemical attack reportedly killed in syria
8Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Arab world, Featured

Chemical attack reportedly killed in syria

    An alleged chemical attack reportedly killed scores of civilians, including children, in Syria on Saturday, with the US describing the reports as horrifying. A Syrian rebel group accused government forces of dropping a barrel bomb containing poisonous chemicals on civilians in eastern Ghouta, with one rescue group reporting more than 150 deaths. Syrian state media denied government forces had launched any chemical attack and said rebels in the eastern Ghouta town of Douma were in a state of collapse and spreading false news. On Saturday evening, the US State Department said the reports of mass casualties were "horrifying" and would demand an international response if confirmed, laying some of the blame with Russia. One video shows the lifeless bodies of around a d...
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Russian request for meet a spy diversion
8Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, Russia

Russian request for meet a spy diversion

    A Russian request for a meeting with Boris Johnson to discuss the nerve agent attack on former double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia has been dismissed as a diversionary tactic by the UK. The Foreign Office confirmed that it had received a request from the Russian Embassy for a meeting with Mr Johnson, one of the most vocal Government critics of Vladimir Putin’s regime over the attempted assassination. The Russian government said it hoped the UK would engage constructively with the request for ambassador Alexander Yakovenko to have face-to-face talks with Mr Johnson. In a statement posted on its website on Saturday, the Russian Embassy said interaction between it and the Foreign Office was utterly unsatisfactory. They added: We believe that it is high...
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