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By Thomas MackintoshBBC News27 November 2023, 00:31 GMTUpdated 4 hours agoImage source, Husam Zomlot/XImage caption, Husam Zomlot said the three students - Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ahmed and Kinnan Abdalhamid - were shot on Saturday night on their way to a family dinner in Burlington, VermontThe families of three Palestinian students shot on…

Gazprom halted gas flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany Friday, citing a gas leak and providing no time frame for when supplies could be restarted. What do we know so far? The state-owned oil firm said supplies would remain halted through Saturday after the leak was detected. The energy giant said the pipeline would not restart…

The 2023 World Internet Conference (WIC) Wuzhen Summit opens in Wuzhen, east China's Zhejiang Province, Nov. 8, 2023. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)HANGZHOU, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- The 2023 World Internet Conference (WIC) Wuzhen Summit kicked off Wednesday in the ancient water town of Wuzhen in east China's Zhejiang Province.Themed "Creating an Inclusive…

Ozeki Kirishima said Monday that winning the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament under the name he inherited from his stablemaster made the victory extra special. The 27-year-old from Mongolia is on the path for promotion to sumo's highest rank, yokozuna, after clinching his second Emperor's Cup, and first as an ozeki, at the…

Comment on this storyCommentPRETRIAL DETENTION CENTER NO. 5, Moscow — Every day is the same in prison, a monotonous routine from the moment we are woken up by the sounds of the Russian national anthem (the Soviet one, brought back by Vladimir Putin early in his rule) until the prison guard switches off our cell lights in the evening. The whole…

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Lithuanian basketball is known for a lot of things, including passionate fans. They go everywhere to… COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Lithuanian basketball is known for a lot of things, including passionate fans. They go…

This July 26, 2018 file photo shows the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology building in Tokyo. (Mainichi) TOKYO -- The full-scale implementation of digital textbooks is set to begin in the 2024 academic year in English classes for fifth grade to third-year middle school students in Japan.…

Authorities say 81 people were arrested Thursday after a group of protesters shut down several lanes of the Bay Bridge during the morning rush hour causing major delays and disrupting traffic heading into San Francisco.Local TV news outlets broadcasting the protest showed dozens of protesters from many organizations taking to the bridge calling…

 The people of Al-Jazeera region continue their sit-in in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Qamishlo, on the twelfth consecutive day in protest against the attacks of the Turkish occupation on northern and eastern Syria.  The Community Protection Forces, in coordination with…

Goals from Bruno Fernandes and Ricardo Horta led Portugal past Iceland, 2-0, in the final qualifying game played on Sunday at Estádio José Alvalade, in Lisbon, and for the first time in history the national team won all their games in the qualifying round for the European Championship.     Portugal’s qualifying numbers were truly historic – 10…