Confusion and fear in refugee camps
AFP Hundreds of refugees protested against the repatriation programme on Thursday No Rohingya refugees voluntarily chose to return to Myanmar from camps in Bangladesh on the first day of a planned repatriation programme. Under a joint deal between the two countries, authorities had wanted to move some 2,000 Rohingya on Thursday. But the UN and […]
Hundreds of new homes set to be approved
Sheffield City Council The housing scheme will be part of the first phase of the Attercliffe Waterside development Plans to build hundreds of new homes in Sheffield’s former steelworks heartland are set to take a step forward. The first phase of the Attercliffe Waterside development is expected to be approved by councillors later. They will […]
Bid to keep Dame Barbara Hepworth sculpture in UK
PA Dame Barbara Hepworth created the sculpture in Cornwall in the 1940s A sculpture created in Cornwall by Dame Barbara Hepworth has been given a temporary export bar to prevent it from leaving the UK. Sculpture With Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue And Red, created by Dame Barbara in St Ives during the 1940s, was […]
Trump says coronavirus crisis may last all summer
Trump tells Americans to avoid public spaces US President Donald Trump has said the nationwide coronavirus emergency could last until the end of the summer or even longer. He said Americans over the next 15 days should not gather in groups of more than 10 and avoid bars, restaurants, food courts, gyms and crowds. At […]
Seven ways to spot a bad argument
Javier Hirschfeld To persuade you, people often try to use logical fallacies (Credit: Javier Hirschfeld) When people are trying to persuade you, they sometimes reach for underhand tricks like the ‘appeal to ignorance’ or ‘whataboutism’ to seem more convincing. Amanda Ruggeri explains how to identify these logical fallacies. Scroll social media, tune into the news, […]
K-Pop group NewJeans split from agency in mistreatment row
Chart-topping K-pop group NewJeans have said they are leaving their agency after accusing it of “mistreatment” and “manipulation”. The five-member girl band announced their departure from Ador, a subsidiary of powerhouse label Hybe, in a late-night press conference held on Thursday. One of the group’s member’s Hanni alleged NewJeans had been shunned by the company. […]
Omicron now dominant virus variant in Scotland
Nicola Sturgeon urges people to stay home as much as they can as the Omicron “tsunami” hits The Omicron variant is now thought to have replaced Delta as the dominant form of the virus in Scotland. The heavily-mutated Covid variant is likely to have been responsible for 51% of the cases recorded across the country […]
Secret hospitals giving criminals new faces shut
Clandestine hospitals in the Philippines have been offering plastic surgery services to fugitives and scam centre workers to help them evade arrest, authorities say. Two such illegal hospitals could be shut down “in the coming weeks” after police raided the first one in Manila’s southern suburbs in May, a police spokesman told the BBC. Hair […]
Why many Muslims in India are opposing an amendment in a property law
Getty Images Several Muslim groups have called the proposed changes politically motivated A proposal to amend a decades-old law that governs properties worth millions of dollars donated by Indian Muslims over centuries has triggered protests in the country. The properties, which include mosques, madrassas, shelter homes and thousands of acres of land, are called waqf […]
‘Race’ to leave Kabul and Charlie Watts’ tributes
“Last chance to escape the Taliban” is the headline on the front of the i – which says the US and the UK are set to leave thousands of Afghans “to their fate” after President Biden ignored the pleas of Boris Johnson and others to extend next Tuesday’s evacuation deadline. “Joe’s No To BoJo” says […]