At least six people were killed and over 50 others were injured in a stampede during an annual festival at a Hindu temple in India’s western coastal state of Goa, police officials said on Saturday.
Tens of thousands of devotees from Goa and its…
Category: 4. World
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What happens behind closed doors to elect a pope
ROME (AP) — Rome is bustling with jasmine blooming and tourists swarming. But behind closed doors, these are the days of dinner parties, coffee klatches and private meetings as cardinals in town to elect…
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‘Don’t see a major war with India, but have to be ready’: Pakistan ex-NSA | Border Disputes News
Islamabad, Pakistan – Eleven days after gunmen shot 26 people dead in the scenic valley of Baisaran in Indian-administered Kashmir’s Pahalgam, India and Pakistan stand on the brink of a military standoff.
The nuclear-armed neighbours have…
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Australia Election 2025: Voters Focus on Cost-of-Living Concerns Amid Global Turmoil
Voters in Australia were casting their ballots in a general election on Saturday, the third major U.S. ally after Germany and Canada to vote in a global economic and political landscape upended by the second Trump administration.
The two men vying…
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What is Vietnam’s administrative ‘revolution’? – DW – 05/03/2025
Vietnam is undergoing what officials call an administrative “revolution,” part of a broader campaign to modernize the state, jumpstart economic growth, and consolidate political power in the hands of the Communist Party’s upper ranks.
To Lam,…
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Ghana Wanted a Cathedral. It Got an ‘Expensive Hole’ Instead.
The walls surrounding Ghana’s national cathedral are aging plywood. Its spires are yellow construction cranes, which have not moved in years. It frequently reverberates with singing — the singing of a choir of frogs that moves in whenever the…
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Social security minister latest to quit in major pensions fraud scandal
Brazil’s Social Security Minister, Carlos Lupi, has resigned nine days after police unveiled a major corruption scandal which defrauded pensioners of $1.1bn (£829m).
Federal police allege that over the past decade, the National Social Security…
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Climate change is both sinking, and lifting, South Africa – DW – 05/03/2025
Rising seas threatenSouth Africa’s coastlines, battering cities with floods and erosion. Yet in a surprising twist of climate science, the ground beneath parts of the country seems to be rising.
Researchers from Germany believe drought and…
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