2024-04-11: News Headlines

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2024-04-11). Tribunal Holds Defense Contractors Accountable For Murder of Iraqi Civilians. covertactionmagazine.com Kathy Kelly is a peace activist from Chicago who was in Iraq in March 2003 when the Bush administration illegally invaded Iraq. She directly observed the shock-and-awe bombing campaign, which deployed overwhelming destructive air power in an attempt to paralyze the will of the Iraqi people to fight. More than 20 years later Kelly is …

geo.tv (2024-04-11). India election: Congress's Gandhis, trailing Modi, battle for political survival. geo.tv Virtually all opinion polls suggest Modi's Hindu nationalist party will return to power for a rare third term…

Nava J. Thakuria (2024-04-11). Projecting Begusarai and Guwahati as Highly Polluted Regions. pressenza.com Rapid urbanization in the last few decades has made Guwahati, the prime city of Assam, a polluted city, but can it feature on top of a list comprising the regions containing highly polluted air across the Asian region? The issue came for discussions as an air quality monitoring body (Switzerland-based IQAir) recently revealed that the virtual capital of northeast India emerged as the second highest polluted city in the continent. Many jumped into the revelation of the World Air Quality Report 2023 and started making voluminous reports in various media outlets terming the prehistoric city as an unhealthy place for…

WSWS (2024-04-11). Delhi Chief Minister jailed on politically manipulated charges as India's election campaign kicks into high gear. wsws.org The Modi government is notorious for its use of manipulated and trumped-up charges against political opponents. But with the approach of the 2024 election, it has become even more brazen in using all means at its disposal to attack its bourgeois rivals, suppress social opposition, and stoke communal reaction.

ptcnews.tv (2024-04-11). Bus falls into ravine in Pakistan's Balochistan; 17 pilgrims dead, 38 injured, driver allegedly drunk. ptcnews.tv PTC News Desk: Tragedy struck near the border of Pakistan's Sindh and Balochistan provinces as a bus carrying pilgrims to the remote Muslim Sufi shrine Shah Noorani in Khuzdar district plunged into a deep ravine. The incident, which occurred in the town of Hub, resulted in the loss of 17 lives and left 38 others injured.Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi extended condolences to the victims' families, attributing the accident to the driver's apparent loss of control at a bend in the road. The passengers, all hailing from Thatta town in Sindh province, were en route to the shrine when the tragic event unfolded approxi…

ptcnews.tv (2024-04-11). Bus falls into ravine in Pakistan's Balochistan; 17 pilgrims dead, 38 injured. ptcnews.tv PTC News Desk: Tragedy struck near the border of Pakistan's Sindh and Balochistan provinces as a bus carrying pilgrims to the remote Muslim Sufi shrine Shah Noorani in Khuzdar district plunged into a deep ravine. The incident, which occurred in the town of Hub, resulted in the loss of 17 lives and left 38 others injured.Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi extended condolences to the victims' families, attributing the accident to the driver's apparent loss of control at a bend in the road. The passengers, all hailing from Thatta town in Sindh province, were en route to the shrine when the tragic event unfolded approxi…

ecns.cn (2024-04-11). Guangdong to recruit HK, Macao graduates. ecns.cn Public service organizations in cities across Guangdong province plan to recruit 4,722 young graduates from the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions this year — accounting for more than 35 percent of their total recruitment.

| Namearlene Getz (2024-04-11). Kyrgyzstan releases 4 Temirov Live journalists; CPJ calls for dropping of charges against all 11. Arlene Getz/CPJ Editorial Director

ecns.cn (2024-04-11). 'Taiwan Relations Act' illegal and invalid, says mainland spokeswoman. ecns.cn The so-called "Taiwan Relations Act" by the United States is completely wrong, illegal and invalid, a Chinese mainland spokeswoman on Wednesday.

ptcnews.tv (2024-04-11). Hardeep Nijjar killing: 'We have stood up for Canadians,' Justin Trudeau affirms defense of Canadians. ptcnews.tv Hardeep Nijjar killing: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who testified at a public inquiry looking into foreign interference in Canada's electoral process said that his government was firm on the issue of protecting Canadians, including addressing the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was shot dead in Surrey last June.During a hearing of the Foreign Interference Commission which is headed by Quebec judge Marie-Josee Hogue, Trudeau accused the previous Conservative government in the country of being "cosy" with the current Indian government. | Asked about foreign interference during the 2019 elections an…

Anand Naidoo (2024-04-11). The Heat: U.S.-Japan Relations. america.cgtn.com

teleSUR, ahf, JGN (2024-04-11). Pueblo de Jordania se manifiesta en apoyo a Gaza. telesurtv.net El pueblo jordano ha llenado las arterias principales portando banderas palestinas y carteles con mensajes que reclaman un cese al fuego en territorio gazatí.

Eric Toussaint (2024-04-11). The South Korean miracle is exposed. cadtm.org

newarab (2024-04-11). Syria regime appoints Suheil Hassan as special forces head. newarab.com

newarab (2024-04-11). Will Iraq's Muqtada al-Sadr end his political quarantine. newarab.com In the intricate landscape of Recently, signs have emerged indicating al-Sadr's return to the political forefront after a period of strategic Muqtada al-Sadr has a…

newarab (2024-04-11). German police arrest Iraqi couple suspected of enslaving Yazidi girls. newarab.com German police have arrested an Iraqi couple alleged to be Twana H. S. and Asia R. A., whose surnames were not released under German privacy law, were arrested on Tuesday for their treatment of the girls between 2015 and 2017 in Iraq and Syria. | Prosecutors said the girls were physically abused, repeatedly raped and banned from practicing their religion. The c…

newarab (2024-04-11). A Turkey of an Election for Erdogan>. newarab.com The recent local elections in Turkey did not go to plan for President Erdogan. | The voters sent a clear message to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) party and the strongman president, when they voted in unprecedented numbers for the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP). | The CHP took control of Turkey's biggest cities and also managed to make significant headway into provinces that had been traditional AKP territory. | Additionally, the AKP also lost out to the New Welfare Party (YRP), and Islamist party, who collected former AKP voters, who were angered by Erdogan's Gaza policy. | The rec…

presstv.ir (2024-04-11). Millions of Indonesians brave mass traffic jams on journey home for Eid. presstv.ir Millions of Indonesian Muslims braved extensive traffic jams as they began the journey to their hometowns ahead of Eid al-Fitr.

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