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Sat, 26 Nov 2022 10:00:14 GMT
Union 'sceptical' of reforms to scandal-hit London fire service
The LFB has promised a "zero tolerance approach to discrimination, harassment and bullying" and accepted around two dozen recommendations from the damning review led by former senior prosecutor Nazir Afzal. He discovered dozens of examples of racis...

Sat, 26 Nov 2022 09:48:24 GMT
Qatari World Cup streaming service partly inaccessible in Saudi
The platform, Tod TV, is owned by the Qatari broadcaster beIN Media Group, which was banned in Saudi Arabia for several years during a row between the two countries but was restored in October 2021. "Due to matters beyond our control, we are exper...

Sat, 26 Nov 2022 08:06:11 GMT
Macau casino giants win licence renewals, Malaysia's Genting loses bid
The former Portuguese colony is the only territory in China where casinos are allowed, and it issues just six operating concessions for a multi-billion-dollar industry that, until the pandemic hit, was bigger than Las Vegas. The six current operato...

Sat, 26 Nov 2022 06:56:25 GMT
In a devastated Ukrainian village, winter brings more misery
Without the wood, Khmil says he will probably freeze amid the ruins of his destroyed village of Kamyanka. "The most difficult thing is to get enough chopped wood," Khmil explains. "There's a huge queue to get the donated wood from volunteers." Wi...

Sat, 26 Nov 2022 06:30:15 GMT
Dutch court backs squatters in Russian tycoon's mansion
Since last month a group of squatters have occupied the luxurious five-storey building belonging to Arkady Volozh, the sanctioned co-founder of Russian search engine giant Yandex. A court has now authorised the squatters to stay, after they argued ...

Sat, 26 Nov 2022 06:08:22 GMT
How one beheading 50 years ago led France to end the death penalty
Roger Bontems, 36, was beheaded for being an accessory to the brutal murder of a nurse and a guard during a break-out attempt at a prison in eastern France. Seven minutes after he was decapitated in the courtyard of La Sante prison in Paris, his co...

Sat, 26 Nov 2022 05:36:10 GMT
Former China football coach Li Tie under investigation
A statement on the website of a provincial government in central China said Li was being probed by a disciplinary arm within the General Administration of Sport, but did not specify his alleged offences. One of China's most recognisable footballers...

Sat, 26 Nov 2022 04:58:14 GMT
Deadly Xinjiang fire stirs anger at China's zero-Covid policy
Ten people were killed and nine injured when the blaze ripped through a residential building in the regional capital Urumqi on Thursday night, according to state news agency Xinhua. Online posts circulating on both Chinese and overseas social media...

Sat, 26 Nov 2022 04:42:16 GMT
Lakers down Spurs in James's return, Celtics beat Kings
James pulled down eight rebounds and handed out five assists with three steals and a blocked shot in 33 minutes on the floor, with Lakers coach Darvin Ham saying the four-time NBA champion looked "phenomenal" after missing five games with a groin in...

Sat, 26 Nov 2022 04:04:20 GMT
Xi tells Kim China willing to work with N.Korea for 'world peace': KCNA
The message from Xi came days after North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile in one of its most powerful tests yet, declaring it would meet perceived US nuclear threats with nukes of its own. North Korea has conducted a record-breaki...

Sat, 26 Nov 2022 02:38:16 GMT
Ukrainian Holocaust survivors find safe haven in Germany
More than eight decades on, the Ukrainian Holocaust survivor has been forced from his home once more -- but this time he's found a safe haven in Germany. Shyfrin is among a number of Ukrainian Jews who lived through the Nazi terror and have now fle...

Sat, 26 Nov 2022 01:58:09 GMT
Colombia, rebels, seek US involvement in peace talks
The talks are an initiative by President Gustavo Petro, who in August became Colombia's first-ever leftist leader and has vowed a less bellicose approach to ending violence wrought by armed groups, including leftist guerrillas and drug traffickers. ...

Sat, 26 Nov 2022 01:48:36 GMT
Costa Rica crocodiles survive in 'most polluted' river
Every day, trash and wastewater from San Jose households and factories flood into the Tarcoles River, which vomits tires and plastic into the surrounding mangroves. Nevertheless, some 2,000 American Crocodiles have adapted to life in the toxic rive...

Fri, 25 Nov 2022 23:54:10 GMT
NASA Orion spacecraft enters lunar orbit: officials
A little over a week after the spacecraft blasted off from Florida bound for the Moon, flight controllers "successfully performed a burn to insert Orion into a distant retrograde orbit," the US space agency said on its web site. The spacecraft is t...

Fri, 25 Nov 2022 23:26:09 GMT
Bears QB Fields questionable for Jets
Fields, who has been in excellent form in recent weeks, has been limited in practice due to a shoulder injury he picked up in Sunday's defeat to the Atlanta Falcons. "I think we're going to let it go up to the game," Eberflus said on Friday. "We'l...



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