New secretary-general of International Civil Defence Organization elected

New secretary-general of International Civil Defence Organization elected

The Secretary-General of the International Civil Defence Organization (ICDO) has been elected at a session held in Baku, according to the Azerbaijan Press Agency (APA) The head of the international relations department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Colonel Arguj Kalantarli, was unanimously elected to the post. Kalantarli delivered a…

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Teaching Men Who Will Never Leave Prison

Teaching Men Who Will Never Leave Prison

It’s 2018. I am, for the first time, in a classroom at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, in Comstock, New York, a men’s maximum-security state prison. There are sixteen students in the class. They are white, Black, Latino. A couple of them are the age of ordinary college kids; most are considerably older. The oldest of…

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Matan Angrest’s bag recovered by IDF from Gaza

Matan Angrest’s bag recovered by IDF from Gaza

His mother, Anat, posted on X/Twitter that “Matan’s bag was returned to me this week in a black plastic bag. How and when will Matan return?” Items belonging to Matan Angrest, understood to be one of the 20 living hostages still held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, were recovered by the IDF on Friday,…

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Cause Revealed of Air India Plane Crash: Fuel Was Turned Off and 1 Pilot Blamed the Other, Preliminary Report Shows

Cause Revealed of Air India Plane Crash: Fuel Was Turned Off and 1 Pilot Blamed the Other, Preliminary Report Shows

NEED TO KNOW Authorities released information following an investigation into what caused the Air India Boeing 787-8 crash on June 12 India’s Air Accident Investigation Bureau said in its preliminary report that the accident was due to fuel to the aircraft’s engines being cut off The passenger plane was carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew…

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Tesla reportedly close to starting sales in India

Tesla reportedly close to starting sales in India

Tesla’s redesigned Model Y | Image Credits:Tesla Tesla is nearly ready to start selling its electric vehicles in India, according to Bloomberg News, after years of flirting with the idea. The company is about to open its first showroom in Mumbai and could start deliveries as early as August, according to the report. A few…

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Australia Post rolls out parcel-only post offices

Australia Post rolls out parcel-only post offices

Australia Post has introduced a modernized post office format designed to make sending, collecting and returning parcels faster and more convenient, as well as its cheapest delivery option in the parcel category. The new stores, called Australia Post Parcels, are dedicated to parcels and facilitating quick customer exchanges with added flexibility through 24/7 self-serve options…

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Greek parliament passes suspension of asylum claims despite international criticism

Greek parliament passes suspension of asylum claims despite international criticism

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s parliament approved a three-month suspension of asylum claims for migrants arriving from Libya on Friday, despite strong criticism from the United Nations refugee agency and Europe’s top human rights official. The measure suspends asylum application processing for those arriving by sea from North Africa, following a dramatic surge in Mediterranean…

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An Adolescent Crush That Never Let Up

An Adolescent Crush That Never Let Up

John Updike’s professional relationship with The New Yorker began in 1954, when he was twenty-two and the magazine published his poem “Duet, with Muffled Brake Drums,” but his personal fascination began much earlier: he started submitting poems, drawings, newsbreaks, and other creative work to various magazines, including The New Yorker, at the age of thirteen.…

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Iran says a young French-German cyclist is in custody, a French newspaper reports

Iran says a young French-German cyclist is in custody, a French newspaper reports

PARIS (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister has confirmed that his country is detaining a teenage French-German cyclist who disappeared last month, French newspaper Le Monde reported Friday. The cyclist, Lennart Monterlos, “was detained for having committed an infraction,” the newspaper quoted Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi as saying in the interview Thursday. He didn’t elaborate…

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