Children among dead in Kabul bombing

October 24, 2020 Article

A suicide attack in Afghanistan’s capital has killed at least 10 people and wounded 20 others, including schoolchildren, the interior ministry said. The explosion struck outside an education centre in a heavily Shiite neighbourhood of western Kabul. Interior ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said the attacker was trying to enter the centre when he was stopped […]

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Risk of being exposed to Covid-19 ‘100 times greater than four months ago’

October 23, 2020 Article

The risk of being exposed to Covid-19 is now 100 times greater than it was four months ago, the Department of Health has warned. Deputy chief medical officer Dr Heather Burns appealed for people to stay at home and adhere to public health guidance as the country’s incident rate exceeded 300 per 100,000 population for […]

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850,000 families in the UK are struggling with the cost of food – charity says

October 22, 2020 Article

One in seven parents of school children who are not receiving free school meals are struggling with the cost of food, a survey suggests. At present, broadly only children from households earning less than £7,400 before benefits are eligible for free school meals. The Children’s Society fear that this threshold means many low-income families who […]

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Muslim child bullied for homemade lunches until parents complain

October 21, 2020 Article

Staff at a primary school in east London intervened to stop the racist bullying of...

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Students helped killer find teacher who was beheaded, says French prosecutor

October 21, 2020 Article

The 18-year-old suspected killer of a French teacher who showed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in class paid students to help him identify the victim, France’s terrorism prosecutor has said. Prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old are among seven people who appeared before an investigating magistrate on accusations of complicity in murder […]

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French militant group and mosque to close after teacher’s killing

October 21, 2020 Article

France’s president has named a domestic militant Islamist group as “directly implicated” in last week’s beheading of a history teacher who had discussed caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed with his class. Emmanuel Macron said the group will be ordered dissolved on Wednesday, when a mosque that relayed a denunciation of the high school teacher is […]

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Thirteen killed, 120 injured in Afghanistan car bomb blast

October 18, 2020 Article

A suicide car bombing killed at least 13 people and injured around 120 others in Afghanistan’s western Ghor province on Sunday, officials said. Mohammad Omer Lalzad, the head of a hospital in Ghor, said emergency staff were treating dozens of people with both serious and light injuries from the bombing. He expected the death toll […]

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Chechnya strongman condemns murder of teacher in France

October 18, 2020 Article

Chechnya’s strongman regional leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who has used massive federal subsidies to rebuild the province and squelched any resistance with his feared security forces, has condemned the killing of a teacher in France. An 18-year-old from Chechnya claimed responsibility for the attack in a Paris suburb before being shot by the police. Mr Kadyrov […]

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Demonstrations across France to pay tribute to murdered teacher

October 18, 2020 Article

Demonstrations have been called around France in support of freedom of speech and to pay tribute to a history teacher who was beheaded near Paris after discussing caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed with his class. Samuel Paty was decapitated on Friday by an 18-year-old Moscow-born Chechen refugee, who was then shot dead by police. Political […]

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Suspect in French beheading horror was Chechen teenager

October 17, 2020 Article

A suspect shot dead by police after the beheading of a history teacher near Paris was an 18-year-old Chechen, French police said. Authorities investigating the horrific killing of the man in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine have also arrested nine suspects, including the grandparents, parents and 17-year-old brother of the suspected attacker. The teacher had discussed caricatures of Islam’s […]

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