Belgian authorities have arrested a vice president of the European Parliament and jailed her, detained almost a dozen others and raided parliamentarians’ apartments and offices, seizing $1.6 million in cash. All this is part of a major scandal known as “Qatargate” that has erupted in the...
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Unknown gunmen kidnapped at least 32 people in Nigeria’s southern Edo state this week, the latest incident of violence in the West African country and just a month before a general election in which security is a major campaign issue, the BBC reported Monday. Authorities said...
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The United Arab Emirates will begin teaching about the Holocaust in history classes in primary and secondary schools, a move that underscores the normalization of relations between the Gulf country and Israel, the Associated Press reported. The UAE embassy in the United States confirmed the changes...
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A Paris court this week dropped a criminal investigation into the use of a pesticide that caused cancer rates to spike on the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe, ending a nearly 20-year-old case that had sparked protests in the overseas territories, France’s Le...
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For centuries, philologists and linguists have been racking their brains over a 2,500-year-old Sanskrit grammar puzzle created by “the father of linguistics,” a grammarian and philologist named Panini, who lived in the region of what is now northwest Pakistan and southeastern Afghanistan between the 6th...
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