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- ‘Shoot them’: Indian state police accused of murdering Muslims and Dalits
- Communications restored to Tonga a month after volcanic eruption and tsunami
- Covid news live: Omicron variant ‘75% less likely to lead to severe illness’; clashes continue in NZ over measures
- This Is Going to Hurt’s Ambika Mod: ‘Whenever I did a caesarean I was buzzing!’
- Children on the edge of life in Afghanistan
- Hands-on experiences: the intimate and tender images of Ken Graves and Eva Lipman
- Zachary Rolfe trial: other officer present when Kumanjayi Walker was shot begins evidence
- Kenya's envoy to UN cites colonial past as he condemns Russian move into Ukraine – video
| ‘Shoot them’: Indian state police accused of murdering Muslims and Dalits Posted: 21 Feb 2022 10:45 PM PST Ahead of key Uttar Pradesh elections, state police accused of being 'mercenaries' of hardline Hindu nationalist government According to police in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, it was suicide. The young Muslim man they had brought into their custody had, out of despair, killed himself in the police station toilets. But, as photos of the scene emerged, so too did suspicions. Family and friends tell a very different story: that Altaf, a Muslim man living in the town of Kasganj, was in love with and planned to marry a Hindu girl. That powerful local Hindu vigilante groups opposed to interfaith unions found out and reported him to the police. And that on 9 November 2021, Altaf was arrested and tortured to death in police custody and his family pressured to keep quiet. Continue reading... |
| Communications restored to Tonga a month after volcanic eruption and tsunami Posted: 21 Feb 2022 11:27 PM PST Tongans have struggled with makeshift satellite services as repairs to undersea cable connecting Tonga to the world were made Tonga has been reconnected to the world following repairs to a submarine cable, a month after a volcanic eruption and tsunami cut communications to the remote Pacific island nation. "People on the main island will have access almost immediately," the Tonga Cable chief executive, James Panuve, told Reuters by telephone, after a repair ship handed over the restored cable on Tuesday afternoon. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 22 Feb 2022 01:34 AM PST Latest updates: follow all the developments in the coronavirus pandemic from the UK and around the world Hong Kong reported 6,211 new Covid infections on Tuesday, and another 9,369 cases who came up positive in preliminary tests. It comes as the city battles to curb a coronavirus outbreak that has overwhelmed healthcare facilities in the global financial hub. Continue reading... |
| This Is Going to Hurt’s Ambika Mod: ‘Whenever I did a caesarean I was buzzing!’ Posted: 21 Feb 2022 10:00 PM PST Playing junior doctor Shruti is a far cry from the standup's 'really silly' sketch comedy but her improv background helped her find moments of levity in Adam Kay's NHS drama When Ambika Mod was cast in This Is Going to Hurt, Adam Kay's TV adaptation of his diaries as a junior NHS doctor, it was late 2020 and health workers were facing a new Covid wave. "It felt like, now more than ever, it was an important story to tell," she says. "I was filled with fear because of the sheer responsibility." Mod plays Shruti Acharya, a junior doctor under the tutelage of Adam (played by Ben Whishaw). "It's so rare to see a well-written, complex, young south Asian female character," she says. "Her arc is so brilliant." The character is an amalgamation of people Kay worked with. "I share a lot in common with Shruti," says Mod. "We're both young Indian women, we're both children of immigrants, so Adam was really receptive to my thoughts. I remember him saying: 'If Shruti doesn't make sense to you, she's not going to make sense to anyone.'" Continue reading... |
| Children on the edge of life in Afghanistan Posted: 22 Feb 2022 12:00 AM PST Save the Children is releasing a powerful series of photographs by world-renowned photographer Jim Huylebroek to highlight the human tragedy unfolding in Afghanistan as the country this week marks six months since the dramatic transition of power The photographer Jim Huylebroek travelled across the country with the international children's agency Save the Children, from the drought-ravaged plains of the north to the freezing streets of Kabul, capturing the stories of children whose lives have been devastated by the humanitarian crisis, for the series titled: children on the edge of life. Children on the outskirts of Kabul Continue reading... |
| Hands-on experiences: the intimate and tender images of Ken Graves and Eva Lipman Posted: 21 Feb 2022 11:00 PM PST Graves and Lipman were partners in both life and art for three decades. Their acutely observed images, taken at American social rituals from proms to football games, capture fleeting moments of connection, of longing, of restraint and desire Continue reading... |
| Zachary Rolfe trial: other officer present when Kumanjayi Walker was shot begins evidence Posted: 22 Feb 2022 12:30 AM PST Remote Sgt Adam Eberl tells court he did not consider Walker to be dangerous when police first encountered him A police officer involved in the attempt to arrest Kumanjayi Walker before his death has told a court he was "surprised" other officers had not used their guns when the Warlpiri man threatened them with an axe during a seperate incident days earlier. Remote Sgt Adam Eberl was the other officer in the room when Constable Zachary Rolfe shot dead Walker on 9 November 2019 in the remote community of Yuendumu, about 300km from Alice Springs. Continue reading... |
| Kenya's envoy to UN cites colonial past as he condemns Russian move into Ukraine – video Posted: 21 Feb 2022 10:24 PM PST Kenya has delivered an emphatic plea to Russia to pursue diplomacy, citing its own history. 'This situation echoes our history. Kenya and almost every African country was birthed by the ending of empire. Our borders were not of our own drawing,' Martin Kimani told the security council. 'Today across the border of every single African country live our countrymen with whom we share deep bonds.' Continue reading... |
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