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Thousands of dead fish in Dal Lake, Kashmir, are of concern to fishers, who make a living off the lake. Credit: Umar Manzoor Shah/IPS by Umar Manzoor Shah (srinagar, indian kashmir) Wednesday, June 14, 2023 Inter Press Service SRINAGAR, Indian Kashmir, Jun 14 (IPS) – Abdul Lateef Dar, a 45-year-old man …

The Baltimore Orioles beat the Texas Rangers, 3-2, on Sunday afternoon in front of a half-capacity crowd at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Felix Bautista clinched the win for the home team with perfect 9th inning, striking out all three batters he faced. Another performance worth celebrating from the game …

KYIV, Ukraine — Explosions far behind the front lines shook Ukraine on Friday, as a Russian missile demolished part of a hospital complex and apparent Ukrainian strikes hit Russian-occupied cities, in their escalating, long-range aerial war. The attack on a medical center in the central city of Dnipro killed at …

Ezinna Abba has taken the Nigerian exit door after World Championships snub. The speedster is now eligible to compete for the USA. In recent years, at least one highly-rated athlete dumps Nigeria to represent another country. This time, it is budding speedster Ezinne Abba, switching allegiance back to representing her …

A magnitude 6.4 aftershock struck Turkey on Monday, February 20, two weeks after a massive earthquake left tens of thousands of people dead in Turkey and Syria.   The quake struck Defne, a town in Turkey’s southern Hatay province, near the Syrian border, Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Agency (AFAD) …

  A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit southern Turkey and northern Syria early Monday morning, February 6, destroying hundreds of buildings and killing at least 641 people as at press time.   Turkish officials say they believe hundreds were still trapped under rubble, and the toll is expected to rise …

The federal government has warned that it would no longer allow strikes or riots around airports in the country.    The warning was issued hours after Aviation workers under the aegis of the National Union of Air Transport Employees, Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and Air Transport Services …

A lawsuit filed by a Lagos resident, Julius Ajibulu, seeking to reverse the Lagos State Government’s restriction of commercial motorcycles (okada) and tricycles (keke) on some of its roads, has been struck out by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State.   Filing a lawsuit against the ban instituted in …

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainians raced to repair the damage and restart services on Saturday, a day after one of the heaviest Russian missile assaults on infrastructure killed at least five people and knocked out power and water in many of the country’s main cities. With Ukrainians already on edge about …

A lawsuit filed by the immediate past Minister of state for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, which sought to nullify the candidacy of Bola Tinubu as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and that of Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, has been struck out by …