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UP court rejects BJP govt plea to withdraw charges against Akhlaq lynching accused
A court in Surajpur in Gautam Buddh Nagar district on Tuesday, December 23, rejected the Uttar Pradesh government’s plea to withdraw all charges against the accused in the 2015 mob lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq, an incident that triggered national outrage over religious intolerance in India. Additional District Judge Saurabh Dwivedi directed that the case be categorised as “most important” and…
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Can Germany Afford to Be Europe’s Protector?
Before Friedrich Merz won Germany’s parliamentary elections in February of this year, the country faced a money dilemma: Germany’s economic stagnation required significant reform and investment to revitalize industry, and the United States demanded more spending on collective defense. The budgetary dispute over how to simultaneously address these conflicting priorities had led to the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government.…
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Turning Point USA held its AmericaFest conference. Here’s what happened | Politics News
Prominent conservative figures in the United States have clashed at Turning Point USA’s annual conference, exposing an underlying rift within the ruling Republican Party and US President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) base. The four-day conference held in Phoenix, Arizona, brought together Republican leaders, media personalities, and conservative activists in an event which exposed deep ideological disagreements within…
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The Great Performances of 2025 | Features
The remarkable year for film has already been captured in this feature of the ten best movies of the year, and this one with over 100 works cited on individual lists. It’s time to talk about performances! We asked our regular contributors to pick a performance this year they loved, and the results capture the diversity of genre, tone, and…
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A Few More Good Things From 2025
Dan Weissmann An Arm and a Leg host Dan Weissmann breaks down how two states passed laws aimed at protecting people from things like medical debt, insurance delays and denials, and corporate profiteering. In Maine, lawmakers unanimously voted to remove medical debts from credit reports. While a nationwide court ruling has cast doubt on the new law’s future, a consumer…
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Top 5 international movies of 2025 – 828reviewsNOW
2025 was a fantastic year for global cinema. From searing docudramas to surreal celebrations of the film medium itself, we visit Brazil, China, Iran, Norway and Palestine to bring you the best international movies of 2025. Read our list. ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — 2025 was a fantastic year for global cinema. From searing docudramas to surreal celebrations of the film…
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‘It’s made things worse for everyone’: Philadelphia grapples with rise of new street drug | Philadelphia
The staff at the harm reduction hub Sunshine House in the middle of Kensington, a neighborhood in north-east Philadelphia home to the most notorious open drug scene in the US, often reverse at least one overdose a day. But the mutating illegal drug supply is regularly conjuring new drugs with novel sets of potentially deadly risks. For the past 18…
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Satellite images show continued demolition in Gaza despite ceasefire
A satellite image of demolition in Gaza Satellite images showed that Israel has continued to demolish buildings in areas under its control in the Gaza Strip despite the cease fire being in place. These images were produced by Planet Labs. They show eastern Gaza City and the Shujaiyeh neighborhood as they were last week and how they appeared several days…
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Intelligence agencies suspect Russia is developing anti-satellite weapon to target Starlink service
Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk’s Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel, with the aim of reining in Western space superiority that has helped Ukraine on the battlefield. Intelligence findings seen by The Associated Press say the so-called “zone-effect” weapon would seek to flood Starlink orbits with hundreds…
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Each ERO to daily handle 150 claims & objections from Dec 27
Kolkata: Each Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) will daily handle 150 cases of hearings on claims and objections to the draft voters’ list in West Bengal from Saturday, as per the target set by the Election Commission of India (ECI). The daily target had been fixed keeping in mind the schedule of the second and third stages of the Special Intensive…
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