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OF THE MUHAMMAD ALI IN Black Death Massacre: Between 100 Napoleonic Code Russia formally Elon Musk’s Neuralink
DAY HISTORY and 3,000 Jews are killed in Black Death adopted in France, annexes Crimea company posts a video of a
riots in Erfurt, Germany; part of a wave stresses clearly written amid international patient playing chess online
FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2025 of pogroms across Western Europe and accessible law condemnation through their brain implant






News in brief Trump floats US takeover

Indian forces kill 30 Maoist u At least 30 Maoist rebels Hamas fires rockets at Tel Aviv
rebels, one soldier dead were killed in the jungles of TOP
central India yesterday in of Ukraine nuclear plants
one of the deadliest clashes since the 4
government ramped up efforts to crush
the long-running insurgency. More than TWEETS
10,000 people have been killed in the
decades-long “Naxalite” rebellion, whose Israeli ground operations expand in Gaza as civilian death toll rises sharply 01
members say they are fighting for the rights
of marginalised people in India’s resource- appealing for the international
rich central regions. An Indian paramilitary • Israel expands community to stop the killing.
soldier was also killed in one of two separate skirmishes that broke out in ground operations, “We are defenceless Palestinian
Chhattisgarh state, both of which carried on through the day, according to police. blocks key Gaza road people,” he added.
Yesterday, the Israeli army
u A jury in North Greenpeace hit with $660 mn in banned traffic on the territory’s
Dakota on Wednesday • Gaza death toll main north-south artery. KNOW WHAT
ordered Greenpeace to damages in US pipeline suit Palestinians were seen fleeing uclear science is sav-
pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages reaches 504, including south along Salaheddin Road near Ning lives every day.
in a closely watched lawsuit brought by a US 190 children the Nusseirat refugee camp atop The @IAEAorg has long
pipeline operator, raising serious free speech donkey-drawn carts piled high Gaza’s civil defence worked with India’s @
concerns. The verdict delivers a stunning legal • UN condemns with belongings. agency reports 49,617 TataMemorial Hospital to
blow to the environmental advocacy group, which “inhumane ordeals” “Over the past 24 hours, IDF people have died since expand access to life-sav-
Energy Transfer (ET) accused of orchestrating soldiers have begun a targeted the war began, with ing treatments, and now
violence and defamation during the controversial on Gaza civilians ground operation in the central even more with #Ray-
construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline nearly a decade ago. ET, which denies and southern Gaza Strip in order casualties rising rapidly sOfHope. Inspired by the
any intent to stifle speech, celebrated the verdict. The jury awarded more than AFP | Washington to expand the security zone be- following Israel’s work being done here and
$660 million in damages across three Greenpeace entities, citing charges including tween the northern and southern renewed offensive by the young patients I
trespass, nuisance, conspiracy, and deprivation of property access. amas said it fired rock- parts,” army spokesman Avichay met today in Mumbai.
ets at Israeli commercial
Four Canadians executed u Canada’s Foreign Minister Hhub Tel Aviv yesterday Adraee said on X. the Israeli army had closed what A Russian serviceman patrols the territory of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (file photo)) @rafaelmgrossi
Melanie Joly said Wednesday that
Movement along Salaheddin it calls Netzarim Junction, on Sa-
in China, Ottawa says China had executed four Canadian in its first military response to Road between the north and laheddin Road just south of Gaza Secretary of State Marco Rubio
citizens in recent weeks, defying pleas for leniency the growing civilian death toll south of the Gaza Strip is pro- City, on Wednesday evening. • Zelensky “ready” said in a joint statement. 02
from Ottawa. “We strongly condemn the executions from Israel’s resumption of air hibited “for your safety”, he said. The official said Israeli tanks “American ownership of
that did happen against Canadians in China,” Joly told and ground operations in Gaza. “Instead, travel from north- had deployed at the junction, to pause energy those plants would be the best
reporters in Ottawa. She said she was unable to discuss Israel said it had closed off ern Gaza to the south is possible where the road artery crosses Is- network attacks protection for that infrastruc-
details of the case due to privacy requests from the the territory’s main north-south via the Al-Rashid coastal road,” rael’s main supply route, “follow- KNOW WHAT ture,” it said.
affected families. China defended the executions in a route as troops expanded the Adraee added, without spelling ing the withdrawal of American AFP | Washington
statement sent to the Globe and Mail newspaper, which indicated the Canadians ground operations they resumed out whether that meant move- special security forces yesterday ‘Ending the war’
had been convicted over drug offenses.. on Wednesday. Palestinians inspect the rubble of a house, after it was destroyed in an Israeli strike in al-Sabra neighbourhood ment from south to north was (Wednesday) morning”. Trump also pledged to help
Gaza’s civil defence agency said response to Israel’s “massacres” Tuesday with a wave of deadly At the Indonesian Hospital in banned. He was referring to American onald Trump told Volody- The Zaporizhzhia Kyiv get more air defense ompetitiveness is key
504 people had been killed so far of Gaza civilians. strikes that drew widespread con- northern Gaza, grieving families Asked by AFP for clarification, private security contractors de- Dmyr Zelensky Wednesday nuclear plant, equipment from Europe, and Cto European prosper-
C URIOSER & C URIOSER in the Israeli assault, including The Israeli army said it inter- demnation. knelt by the bodies of their loved the army had no immediate com- ployed in February after the pull- that the United States could Europe’s largest, has to find Ukrainian children “ab- ity and to European de-
more than 190 children. Its pre- cepted one projectile fired from The offensive shattered a rela- ones enveloped in blood-stained ment. back of Israeli forces under the own and run Ukraine’s nuclear been under Russian ducted” by Russia, the state- fence. We have to invest in
vious death toll was at least 470. Gaza and that two others struck tive calm that had pervaded in the white shrouds. terms of the January ceasefire. power plants as part of his latest control since March ment said. education, skills, research
‘Musky’ marsupial could solve Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, After weeks of stalemate, Israel since a ceasefire took hold on a ceasefire!” one of them, Mo- ‘Inhumane ordeals’ The first stage of the ceasefire bid to secure a ceasefire in Rus- 2022, raising global on his Truth Social network and innovation. This will
war-ravaged Palestinian territory
The US president earlier said
The armed wing of Hamas, the an uninhabited area.
“We want a ceasefire! We want
sia’s invasion of its neighbour.
be a major theme on to-
An official from Gaza’s Ha- expired early this month amid
hopping kangaroo mystery said it fired rockets at Tel Aviv in resumed its air campaign early January 19. hammed Hussein, told AFPTV, mas-run interior ministry said deadlock over next steps. The Ukrainian president said concerns over safety that efforts to reach a full truce day’s #EUCO agenda.
following their call that Kyiv and energy security were “very much on track.” @eucopresident
was “ready” to pause attacks amid the conflict Zelensky said Ukrainian and
on Russia’s energy network US officials could meet in com-
Philippine officials deny coordinating Duterte arrest with ICC Oxygen detected in most distant and infrastructure, a day after insisting in his own call with ing days for fresh talks in Sau- 03
Vladimir Putin agreed to halt Trump on Tuesday that the di Arabia, where Russian and
AFP | Manila galaxy: ‘astonished’ astronomers similar strikes on Ukraine. West first stop all military aid American teams are also due to
had kept the ICC at “arm’s Zelensky also said he had dis- for Ukraine. meet early next week.
hilippine senators yesterday length” until receiving the ar- cussed Trump’s power plant Republican Trump’s tone Russia and Ukraine ex-
Pgrilled government officials rest warrant via Interpol. takeover plan. was markedly more positive changed 372 prisoners, Moscow
over their decision to hand for- “We never, up to now, had “We talked only about one after the Zelensky call, with said Wednesday, which was
mer president Rodrigo Duterte any communication with the power plant, which is under the White House describing it planned as a goodwill gesture
to the International Criminal ICC, officially or unofficially,” Russian occupation,” Zelensky, as “fantastic” -- despite the fact following the Trump-Putin call.
Court last week, with the coun- he told the hearing called by who was on an official visit to that the two men had a blazing Kyiv and Moscow however hank you for the great
try’s justice minister denying Senator Imee Marcos, a close Finland, said during an online televised row in the Oval Office accused each other of continu- Tdiscussion, @nsithar-
coordinating the arrest ahead friend of Vice President Sara briefing, referring to the plant recently. ing attacks. aman . I always love learn-
of time. Duterte who is the daughter of in Zaporizhzhia. Trump “discussed Ukraine’s Ukraine’s defense ministry ing more about India’s ef-
Duterte was detained March the detained ex-leader. He added that he had “not electrical supply and nuclear said an overnight barrage of forts to expand financial
Musky rat-kangaroos are a distant ancestor of the larger kangaroo species 11 and put on plane to the ICC But Senator Marcos, sister of felt any pressure” from Trump power plants” and said Wash- Russian missiles and drones access and economic op-
AFP | London of locomotion evolved in Aus- in the Netherlands the same President Ferdinand Marcos, to make concessions to Russia. ington could be “very helpful” struck the war-battered nation, portunity for women, and
tralia.” day to face a crimes against hu- pointed to language in the Inter- But a wider ceasefire remains in running them,” National Se- killing one person and damag- the latest on the country’s
cientists stalking a small Scientists tracked the crea- manity charge tied to his drug pol diffusion -- a more informal elusive with the Kremlin leader curity Advisor Mike Waltz and ing two hospitals. leadership on DPI, public
Smarsupial through a re- tures, also known as “musk- war in which thousands were Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is seen on a screen with his lawyer version of a red notice -- that finance management, and
mote Australian rainforest say ies”, through the tropical killed. Salvador Medialdea (L) in the courtroom (file photo) she said suggested deeper co- AI for social good. I look
they may have found a clue to rainforests of far-northern Speaking at yesterday’s hear- ing, Secretary of Justice Jesus Remulla said the government ordination. forward to expanding our
the mystery of why its bigger Queensland state. Protests resume as Istanbul mayor partnership with @Fin-
kangaroo cousins hop instead They observed the creatures MinIndia .
of walk. moving in a “bounding” mo- @BillGates
Kangaroos and closely relat- tion -- hopping with their back South Korean lawmaker egged ahead of Yoon impeachment verdict An infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows JADES-GS-z14-0 spends first night in custody
ed wallabies are the only large legs while their front paws re- AFP | Paris
animals to hop upright on two mained on the ground. AFP | Seoul case, we have formed an inves- The galaxy JADES- AFP | Istanbul 04
legs, researchers from Austral- It suggested a kind of mid- tigation task force,” the Seoul xygen has been detected in GS-z14-0 shows signs of
ia’s Flinders University said point in the evolutionary outh Korean opposition Metropolitan Police Agency said Othe most distant galaxy ever rapid maturity, akin to
yesterday, but why remains a journey from walking on all Slawmakers called yester- in a statement. discovered, surprised astrono- finding an adolescent rotesters gathered in Istan-
mystery. fours to hopping on two, the day for extra security after an Opposition lawmakers visit- mers said yesterday, offering fur- where only babies were Pbul for a second day yester-
They believe the answer researchers said. MP was hit in the face with an ed the National Police Agency, ther evidence that stars in the expected, challenging day after police detained the
may lie with the small musky “These results signal a po- egg outside a court, with po- urging the police to reinforce early universe matured far quicker existing cosmic theories city’s powerful mayor in a graft
rat-kangaroo, a bush-dwelling tential pathway to how biped- lice bracing for unrest ahead security near the court. than had been thought possible. and terror probe that the oppo-
marsupial weighing about the al hopping evolved in kanga- of an expected ruling on the The Constitutional Court has The galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0, sition has slammed as a political
same as a loaf of bread. roos,” said Harvard University fate of the country’s impeached become a flashpoint as Yoon’s which was discovered by the These discoveries have been so “coup”. s we welcome longer
Musky rat-kangaroos are a biologist Peter Bishop, who president. supporters and opponents await James Webb Space Telescope last startling they have raised doubts Ekrem Imamoglu, who is Adays and watch na-
distant ancestor of the larger was involved in the work. President Yoon Suk Yeol was its ruling, which will decide year, is so far away that its light about whether something impor- President Recep Tayyip Erdo- ture bloom around us,
kangaroo species that famous- “Perhaps it started with an suspended by lawmakers over whether to formally remove took 13.4 billion years to reach tant is missing in our understand- gan’s main political rival, was let’s embrace this season
ly roam the country’s outback. ancestor that moved about on his disastrous Dec 3 declaration him from office. Earth. ing of the universe. detained by hundreds of police of new beginnings. Spring
Researcher Amy Tschirn all fours like other marsupials, of martial law, and the court last The court said yesterday it This means the galaxy can also For the latest research, two in- before dawn on Wednesday, has sprung! #SpringEqui-
said musky rat-kangaroos -- then an animal that bounded month held weeks of tense im- would deliver its impeachment reveal what the universe was like ternational teams led by Dutch four days before being named nox
named for their pungent scent like the muskies, and finally peachment hearings to decide Lawmakers of South Korea’s Democratic Party (DP) hold a protest at the verdict on Prime Minister Han in its infancy, when it was just 300 and Italian astronomers probed as the main opposition CHP’s @KGeorgieva
-- were the only member of the evolved into the iconic hop- whether to formally strip him entrance of the Constitutional Court in Seoul Duck-soo - who was impeached million years old -- two percent of the JADES-GS-z14-0 galaxy us- candidate for the 2028 race.
“macropodoid” family that did ping kangaroos we see in Aus- of office. Opposition MP Back Hye- bananas were also thrown. by lawmakers after he stepped its current age. ing the ALMA radio telescope in The move sent Turkey’s fi- Protesters gather overnight outside City Hall in Istanbul
not hop. tralia today.” Despite experts predicting a ryun was addressing reporters Police have not identified an in as acting president - on Mon- Since coming online in 2022, the Chile’s Atacama desert. nancial markets into a tailspin, it would draw on its foreign Police barricades remained

“As the only living macrop- Kangaroos and wallabies verdict by mid-March, the Con- outside the court, urging jus- attacker. But authorities have day. Han had refused opposition powerful Webb telescope has dis- They detected traces of oxygen, dealing a heavy blow to the exchange reserves if needed up around Taksim Square and Disclaimer: (Views expressed
odoid that doesn’t hop, the are the only hopping species stitutional Court has yet to issue tices to uphold Yoon’s impeach- pointed to Yoon supporters, demands to appoint new judges covered that galaxies in the young according to the European South- Turkish lira that was trading to prevent further harm to there was a heavy police pres- by columnists are personal and
musky rat-kangaroo provides heavier than five kilogrammes its final ruling - making Yoon’s ment, when she was hit by at who were staging a protest in to the Constitutional Court so it universe were much brighter, ern Observatory, confirming hints at around 38 lira to the dollar the lira, with economists say- ence around City Hall to en- need not necessarily reflect our
a crucial insight into how and (11 pounds), the researchers case the longest deliberation in least one raw egg yesterday. the area. could hear Yoon’s case prompt- more advanced and more numer- previously spotted by the Webb yesterday. ing it had already done so on force a four-day ban on pro- editorial stances)
when the iconic hopping form said. its history. Police later confirmed that “In light of the gravity of the ly. ous than scientists had expected. telescope. Turkey’s Central Bank said Wednesday. tests.
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