Stampede at food distribution centre kills 11 people in Pakistan
Women and children die when people panic and push each other to collect food in Karachi, officials say.
A stampede at a Ramadan food distribution centre in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi has killed at least 11 people, all women and children, according to police and rescue officials.
Several people were also injured in Friday’s incident, which happened when hundreds of people panicked and started pushing each other to collect food outside a factory. Some of them fell into a nearby drain, police official Mughees Hashmi said.
Residents said a wall also collapsed near the drain, injuring and killing people amid the stampede.
Local media reported that eight women and three children died.
Oscar Pistorius denied parole over killing of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp
Former Paralympic and Olympic star was automatically eligible for parole consideration after serving half his sentence
The former South Africa athlete Oscar Pistorius has been denied parole over the killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp 10 years ago.
Pistorius killed Steenkamp, a model and law graduate, when he fired four times through the bathroom door of his high-security house in February 2013. The parole board’s decision was taken at a hearing at the correctional facility on the outskirts of the capital, Pretoria, where the 36-year-old is being held.
The Department of Correctional Services said the parole board found Pistorius had not completed the minimum detention period required to be let out. “We were … advised at this point in time that it has been denied and it will be considered again in one year’s time,” Tania Koen, a lawyer for the victim’s family, told AFP.
Revealed: How archaeologists are shedding new light on how Hitler was defeated
Operation Cobra was arguably the most successful allied western European military land operation of the entire war
A British archaeological investigation is revealing the true story of one of World War Two’s most important battles.
Known as Operation Cobra, the crucial yet little-researched series of engagements took place in late July, 1944 (just 51 days after the Normandy landings) - and was arguably the most successful allied western European military land operation of the entire war.
The excavation project in Normandy is one of the largest archaeological investigations, into a WW2 battlefield, ever carried out.
Japan accused of failing to block Russia's timber exports
Japanese construction firms are using loopholes to keep buying wood from Russia, despite the sanctions triggered by the attack on Ukraine, activists say.
London-based environmental group Earthsight has accused the Japanese government of not acting to halt imports of more than $410 million (€378 million) worth of what they call "conflict timber" from Russia following the attack on Ukraine.
The activists claim that, despite sanctions imposed by Tokyo, Japanese business continue to buy sawn lumber (processed wood) from Russia's Far East.
Sam Lawson, Earthsight director and the report's author, said Japanese consumers are unwittingly helping to fund the war in Ukraine.
"After international timber certification bodies scaled back or ended operations in [Russia] following Putin's aggression, EU officials declared it impossible for overseas buyers to reliably trace Russian wood to the point of harvest," he was quoted as saying by Earthsight.
TEPCO visually confirms melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima plant
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March 31, 2023 at 18:16 JST
A robotic study provided the first visual confirmation that melted nuclear fuel broke through a pressure vessel at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. said March 30.
Images taken by the robot under the No. 1 reactor at the plant also confirmed heavy damage to a concrete “pedestal” under the pressure vessel.
The inspection by the robot started on March 29. It was the first such study at the No. 1 reactor, one of the three reactors that melted down at the plant following the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Syrian children traumatized by war are listening to a special lullaby to fall asleep
Syrian radio stations are broadcasting a new kind of lullaby every evening to help traumatized children across the country fall asleep.
The Frequencies of Peace lullaby project is the work of neuroscientists and music therapy application Spiritune aimed at Syrian children.
Ghaliaa Chaker, a Syrian singer based in Dubai, wrote and recorded the lullaby in Arabic. The 24-year-old was used to writing songs, but never a lullaby. She says the subject pulled her in.
“Writing a lullaby never crossed my mind. But the thing that influenced me was the topic. To be able to help Syrian kids and refugees,” Chaker told CNN.
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