COVID-19 | 25 dead in Delhi's Ganga Ram hospital due to oxygen shortage
Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram hospital, which treats hundreds of coronavirus patients, saw the death of 25 "sickest" patients on Friday over low oxygen pressure, the hospital said on Friday.
It had issued an SOS to the governments at 8 a.m., saying that only two hours of oxygen is available, and the ventilator and BiPAP are not "working effectively." At 9.20 a.m., it said that the oxygen tanker has reached as is being offloaded.
"This will last 4 to 5 hrs, depending on consumption," a hospital spokesperson said.
French police officer killed in knife attack at police station near Paris
Officer dies from injuries after attack at police station in Rambouillet, south-west of the capital
A French police officer has been killed in a knife attack at a police station in Rambouillet, south-west of Paris, as she carried out administrative duties at the front desk.
The French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, tweeted that an officer had been the victim of a knife attack and that he was on his way to the scene. The French prime minister, Jean Castex, was also heading to the town of 25,000 people 35 miles from the capital.
French media reported that a police officer had been badly wounded in the neck shortly after 2pm and had died from her injuries. French TV reported that other officers had intervened, shooting and overpowering the attacker.
Jerusalem on edge after clashes between Israelis and Palestinians
More than 100 people were injured during the violence
Israeli police arrested over 50 people and Palestinian medics said more than 100 were injured after fierce clashes in the contested city of Jerusalem.
Violence erupted by one of the entrances to the walled Old City on Thursday night , when ultra-nationalist rightwing Israelis chanting “death to Arabs” took to the streets, while police mounted on horseback, tried to separate them from a counter protest by Palestinian youths who hurled firecrackers.
Tensions have soared since the start of Ramadan on 13 April when Palestinians say police have tried to prevent them from holding their usual evening gatherings when they break their fast outside Damascus Gate, a historic landmark on the north side of the Old City.
Alexei Navalny: Russian opposition leader ends hunger strike
In a post on his official social media channels, Navalny thanked "good people" in Russia and around the world for their support.
Imprisoned leading Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny said on Friday he would gradually end a hunger strike he started on March 31.
The 44-year-old said in an Instagram post he was ending the strike after getting medical attention and being warned by non-prison doctors that continuing it would be life-threatening. He said it would take 24 days to get completely back to normal eating.
IHRA ‘misrepresents’ own definition of anti-Semitism, says report
New report obtained exclusively by Al Jazeera details how the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance misinformed the public over its anti-Semitism definition.
An international organisation behind a controversial definition of anti-Semitism has misled the public about that definition, according to a new report by the British campaign group Free Speech on Israel, obtained exclusively by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit.
The report, written by Oxford University researcher Jamie Stern-Weiner and set to be officially published on Sunday, shows that statements made by spokespeople and publications of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) have misrepresented the “Working Definition of anti-Semitism” by claiming that it includes a hotly contested list of “examples” of anti-Semitism.
China calls these Uyghur parents 'terrorists' without evidence. But they say they just want to be with their children again
Updated 0626 GMT (1426 HKT) April 23, 2021
Three Uyghur parents who publicly appealed to Beijing to let their children leave China have been accused, without evidence, of child abandonment and terrorism by the Chinese government.
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