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NewsFeed 12-year-old Zakaria es-Sersek is a volunteer medic at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza. Inspired by seeing medical staff working around the clock, he now assists doctors with newly-developed skills. Published On 4 Apr 20244 Apr 2024 EMEA Tribune is not involved in this news article, it is taken from our partners and or from […]

A man in Virginia with a complicated name came up with a surprisingly simple approach to winning six figures in the Virginia Lottery. Wassihun Woldeamanuel didn’t divulge how he got the idea, but he almost didn’t have to reveal it. “The Arlington man bought 40 plays … each with the same four-digit combination: 4-4-4-4,” the […]

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top diplomat warned Thursday that prospective negotiations to end the fighting in Ukraine could be successful only if they take Moscow’s interests into account, dismissing a planned round of peace talks as a Western ruse to rally broader international support for Kyiv. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov charged that Ukraine’s Western allies […]

Inside Look is a Star series that takes our readers behind the scenes of some of the most well-known and not-so-well-known places and events in Kansas City. A few months ago an article in the Star addressed the “zipper merge” and how it could improve traffic flow. After it was published, a reader who’d lived […]

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s leading human rights body agreed Thursday to measures aimed at putting pressure on Myanmar and Iran, whose governments have been accused of using violence against their own people. The Human Rights Council, made up of 47 member countries, backed by consensus a measure that calls on governments to avoid exporting […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia cannot be a target for Islamic fundamentalists, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, nearly two weeks after at least 144 people were killed near Moscow in a mass shooting that was claimed by Islamic State militants. “We have every reason to believe that the main goal of those who ordered the […]

South Africa’s ex-Speaker of Parliament Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has been charged with 12 counts of corruption and one count of money laundering. She made her first court appearance after handing herself over to a police station on Thursday morning. The politician is accused of soliciting bribes in return for awarding contracts during her time as defence […]

A ferry carrying nearly 100 tourists caught fire in Thailand early Thursday, forcing some of them to jump overboard in fear while others were saved by a rescue boat. The boat was on its way to the island of Koh Tao, a tourist hot spot known as “Death Island,” when the fire broke out in […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – China has proposed the most reasonable peace plan so far for resolving the Ukraine conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying on Thursday. Beijing put forward a 12-point paper more than a year ago that set out general principles for ending the war but did not get into specifics. […]