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Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

German ministries spar over draft law with feminine nouns

10:03 pm October 12, 2020

Berlin: Germany’s Interior Ministry has objected to draft legislation drawn up by the Justice Ministry that uses the feminine form for every reference to people, arguing Monday that it likely would be unconstitutional. In German, linguistic convention has long called for the masculine form of a word to be used as the default when referring to […]

English villages wake up to find they’re Brexit’s new border

9:24 pm October 12, 2020

Sevington: Four years after Britain voted to leave the European Union, Brexit can still seem abstract. But in the county known as the Garden of England, it is literally taking concrete form. Just beyond the ancient oaks and yews that surround medieval St. Mary’s Church in the village of Sevington, bulldozers, dump trucks and cement mixers swarm […]

Gunman wounds policeman in Croatia before killing himself

3:16 pm October 12, 2020

Zagreb: A gunman on Monday shot and wounded a police officer outside the Croatian government headquarters in the capital, Zagreb, before killing himself, police said. The shooting happened around 8 am at Trg Svetog Marka, or St Mark’s Square, which hosts the Croatian parliament building and other other important state institutions. Police said the suspected […]

Greece calls new Turkish survey mission a threat to region

3:08 pm October 12, 2020

Athens: Greece has accused neighbor Turkey of undermining efforts to ease a crisis over drilling rights in the eastern Mediterranean after the announcement that a Turkish survey vessel is being prepared to renew a research mission in disputed waters. The spat over sea boundaries in an area between Greek islands, Cyprus, and Turkey’s southern coast flared up over the […]

UK at ‘tipping point:’ England braces for more restrictions

11:16 pm October 11, 2020

London: Millions of people in northern England are anxiously waiting to hear how much further virus restrictions will be tightened as one of the British government’s leading medical advisers warned Sunday that the country is at a crucial juncture in the second wave of the coronavirus. England’s deputy chief medical officer, Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, said […]