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  • What do we know about drone attacks in Russia?

    Russia has reported a series of drone attacks across the country, including a strike on an airport, hundreds of miles from Ukraine, which set at least two military cargo planes on fire. Moscow has repeatedly accused Ukraine of being behind drone strikes in recent months. Ukraine hasn't claimed res...
  • Clare Nowland: Tasering a 95-year-old is 'grossly disproportion

    An Australian police officer charged with tasering a 95-year-old care home resident acted in a "grossly disproportionate" way, prosecutors in the case say. Clare Nowland died in May, a week after the incident which was prompted when she was found holding two knives. New court documents allege Kris...
  • Slave and indentured Indian laborers at Osmanabad

    Bhagwan Ghukse was startled awake on a hot June night and made the decision to flee for his life. Mr. Ghukse and five other daily wage employees have been held captive in a filthy shack in the western state of Maharashtra for the last month. Workers in the Osmanabad district of the state were emplo...
  • Before the cyclone, India and Pakistan evacuated thousands of p

    As some areas of India and Pakistan prepare for an unusually violent cyclone to strike on Thursday evening, tens of thousands have been evacuated. A cyclone over the Arabian Sea named Biparjoy is expected to make landfall in the Gujarati city of Kutch in western India. The storm is anticipated to ...
  • AI: Chinese tech giant Alibaba will release a ChatGPT competito

    Chinese technology giant Alibaba has announced plans to roll out its own artificial intelligence (AI) ChatGPT-style product called Tongyi Qianwen. Its cloud computing unit says it will integrate the chatbot across Alibaba's businesses in the "near future" but did not give details on its timeline. ...