"A Pro-Palestine protest flooded the tree lighting ceremony in NYC to bring attention to the lives lost in Gaza. Protesters disrupt calling for a Free Palestine, while NYPD start to get aggressive against the protesters.”
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"In the Netherlands Geert Wilders' election win has been confirmed. The election committee has said that Geert Wilders and his PVV freedom party has now won 137 seats in the 150 seat Parliament and now Wilders faces an uphill task to forge a coalition as some parties are extremely uncomfortable with his far right anti-Islam agenda. ”
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Around 60,000 people have marched through Central London, demonstrating against antisemitism.
Organisers from the Campaign Against Antisemitism said the large pro-Palestinian marches that have been held in the capital have made London a "no-go zone for Jews" as Sky's Becky Johnson reports.”
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Rescuers in India say they have broken through to 41 workers who have been trapped in a tunnel in Uttarakhand state since 12 November.
The men became stuck after a landslide nearby brought down a mountain of debris.
They are expected to be extracted one by one via a 90cm diameter pipe inserted through the rubble of the collapsed tunnel.
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It's lucky the NHS has lots of spare capacity so the Doctors can spend all day filling in this form', jokes Leo Kearse.
Leo Kearse, Simon Evans and Lewis Schaffer discuss a story about a 'nonsense new transgender form' for NHS doctors in the Daily Telegraph.”
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Chris Rock or Kevin Hart. Who do you fancy?
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XCLUSIVE: A TalkTV investigation has unearthed footage of hate preachers in several UK mosques calling for Jewish people to be killed.
Imam Ajmal Masroor: “Hate speech preached by anyone is condemned and not tolerated anywhere! We’re living at a very hateful time.”
London's Metropolitan Police are reporting a significant surge in antisemitic and anti-Islamic hate crimes in the city since the start of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
In a statement Friday, they said that from October 1 to 18 the department saw 218 antisemitic offences compared to 15 in the same period last year, while Islamophobic offences jumped from 42 to 101, representing increases of 1,353 percent and 140 percent respectively.
The department said the crimes include abuse directed at individuals or groups in person or online, racially or religiously motivated criminal damage and other offences.">_______
A man wearing a t-shirt with the ‘Free Palestine’ slogan invaded the pitch during the India vs Australia World Cup finals.
A man wearing a ‘Free Palestine’ t-shirt invaded the pitch during the ongoing India vs Australia ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 finals on Sunday. He was seen trying to hug Virat Kohli.
The man, clad in red shorts, was wearing a white t-shirt with the message ‘Stop bombing Palestine’ on the front and ‘Free Palestine’ on the back. He was also wearing a face mask in Palestine's colours.
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At the United Nations, India asked Canada to rein in on extremist elements and rising hate in the country. “Strengthen the domestic framework to prevent misuse of freedom of expression, for inciting violence and disallow activities of groups which are promoting extremism,” said Mohammed Hussain, India’s representative at the UNHRC. New Delhi’s schooling to Ottawa came in wake of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rehashing the Nijjar allegations once again but failing to provide proof to back the claims about India’s involvement in the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
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A 60-year-old man was assaulted and paraded on a donkey after his face was blackened. Blackface still appears in countless ways.
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Hindus constitute the largest non-Muslim group in the country. But today the number of this minority in Pakistan is decreasing and they are fleeing to other countries where their rights are better protected. One of the main causes of the Hindus concern is that forces conversion of their girls. The girls escape from house as a result of kidnapping, when they are found; they are forcefully married to some Muslim boy and converted to Islam.
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By dating the rocks in Earth's ever-changing crust, as well as the rocks in Earth's neighbors, such as the moon and visiting meteorites, scientists have calculated that Earth is 4.54 billion years old, with an error range of 50 million years.
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On 31 December 1600, a group of merchants who had incorporated themselves into the East India Company were given monopoly privileges on all trade with the East Indies. The Company's ships first arrived in India, at the port of Surat, in 1608.
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“Punjabi” is a term that describes a person who has cultural links to Punjab. It can refer to the people, language, alphabet, tradition, culture, and other issues that are related to Punjab, which refers to an Indian and Pakistani state.
On the other hand, a Muslim is a descriptive term for a person who is practicing the religion of Islam. Anyone can be called a Muslim if the person follows the tenets of the said faith and the religious teachings.
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Delhi Smog: Punjab, Haryana and Delhi Government Blaming each Other for Pollution in Delhi-NCR.
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A young widow alleges that a cleric from an important shrine sold her to his friends in a prostitution ring, while secret filming reveals another cleric conducting a pleasure marriage with a girl he believes to be only 13.
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Ever considered earning some money through paid drug trials? We what are the dangers of medical research?
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I’ve even heard women say things like, “Balls are gross. I hate them.”
If a woman overheard men talking about vaginas being dirty and disgusting, she’d surely think this was misogyny and micro aggression.
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Meanwhile, Jack Hawley (New World Library, 2011 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 197 pages) wrote: "The Bhagavad Gita has been called India's greatest contribution to the world. For more than five thousand years, this great scripture has shown millions in the East how to fill their lives with serenity and love. In these pages, Jack Hawley brings these ancient secrets to Western seekers in a beautiful prose version that makes the story of the Gita clear and exciting, and makes its truths understandable and easy to apply to our busy lives."
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We take it for granted that the sun is just going to keep on shining… But what if it didn't? Could we survive on planet Earth without the rays of the sun beating?
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We tend to like people who think like us. If we agree with someone’s beliefs, we’re more likely to be friends with them. While this makes sense, it means that we subconsciously begin to ignore or dismiss anything that threatens our world views, since we surround ourselves with people and information that confirm what we already think.
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May 8, 2019 Source: American Geophysical Union Summary: Radioactive carbon released into the atmosphere from 20th-century nuclear bomb tests has reached the deepest parts of the ocean, a new study finds. Crustaceans in deep ocean trenches have incorporated this 'bomb carbon' into the molecules that make up their bodies.
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The term White Australia policy was widely used to encapsulate a set of historical policies that aimed to exclude people of non-European origin, especially Asians (primarily Chinese) and Pacific Islanders (primarily Melanesians) from immigrating to Australia. Governments progressively dismantled such policies between 1949 and 1973.
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The calm on my face is an ongoing sin.The world must stay out; I've built up a wall. My fragile lie will collapse should it ever fall.
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The remnants of the airliner and all aboard fell into the Atlantic Ocean approximately 120 miles (190 km) West-Southwest of the southwest tip of Ireland, killing all aboard. A total of 329 people were killed, including 268 Canadian citizens, 27 British citizens and 24 Indian citizens.
The bombing of Air India Flight 182 is the largest mass killing in Canadian history, and was also the world's most destructive act of aviation terrorism until 9/11.
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Pakistan was created out of India in 1947 when both the countries became Independent from Great Britain.
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GREENWOOD, Ind. -- Police say a brawl at a Sikh temple in suburban Indianapolis has left four people with minor injuries. Greenwood Assistant Police Chief Matthew Fillenwarth says police and medics responded Sunday to a verbal and physical fight involving about 150 people at the Gurdwara Sikh temple in the city just south of Indianapolis.
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Ever since Karan Johar was called the flagbearer of nepotism on his famous talk show by actress Kangana Ranaut, nepotism has become the talking point in India.
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The Qur'an is a continuation and completion of the earlier scriptures like the Torah and the Gospel; and the mission of Muhammad was a reconciliation between the harsh Law of Moses and the non-violent Gospel of Jesus.
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CellCentric in Cambridge has received approval from the UK regulatory authority, the MHRA, to start clinical trials of its CCS1477 technology to treat certain blood cancers.
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It was the result of a well-planned strategy by Hindu fundamentalists. They have worked to convert the vision of India?
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India has for the first time published detailed figures on the number of people killed in the religious riots in the western state of Gujarat in 2002.
The government told parliament that 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus were killed, 223 more people reported missing and another 2,500 injured.
Unlabelled in supermarkets, a consumer watchdog has warned. The proportion of animals stunned before slaughter for halal meat last year."
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The Sikhs fought a number of battles to preserve Hinduism. True or false?
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SPECTRUM S1 • E4
Do All White People Think The Same About Race?
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36-year-old man from Secunderabad gave triple talaq to his wife last month allegedly for her crooked teeth.
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