Source link The kidnappers who took Abdul Arfath last month demanded $1,200 in ransom from his family A student from India who had moved to the US last year was found dead days after going missing, New Delhi’s consulate in New York said on Tuesday. Mohammed Abdul Arfath, a 25-year-old who was pursuing a Master’s […]
Source link Venezuelan farmer Juan Vicente Perez Mora has passed away two months before his 115th birthday The world’s oldest man, Juan Vicente Perez Mora, died at the age of 114 on Tuesday in Venezuela, according to local officials. The retired farmer became the oldest living male in 2020, and was officially recognized as such […]
Source link The Indian Embassy has urged its citizens residing in border areas of the country to relocate to safer places Indians living in the border areas of Israel have been asked to relocate to “safe areas,” as the Gaza conflict enters its fifth month. New Delhi’s embassy in Tel Aviv issued the warning on […]
Source link The 94-year-old politician had resigned his parliamentary position last September Soviet statesman Nikolay Ryzhkov has died aged 94, less than five months after resigning from the upper chamber of the Russian parliament. He was a senior cabinet member of the USSR in its final decade, who was tasked with tackling the 1986 Chernobyl […]
Source link An active-duty servicemember has passed away after setting himself on fire in protest of the ongoing war in Gaza An active-duty US Air Force member who torched himself outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington to demonstrate his disgust over the “genocide” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has died. The 25-year-old airman, Aaron […]
Source link Lord Jacob Rothschild has passed away at the age of 87, his family announced on Monday, according to media reports Lord Jacob Rothschild, a financier and member of the Rothschild banking family, has died at the age of 87, his family announced on Monday, according to media reports. DETAILS TO FOLLOW You can […]
Source link Authorities in the US capital say an investigation is underway to determine the cause of Walter Nyamato’s death A Kenyan police officer who was part of a team in Washington DC for talks on a planned security mission to Haiti has been found dead in a hotel room, authorities in the US capital […]
Source link Artist Andrey Molodkin says he has arranged for 16 valuable paintings to be destroyed should WIkiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange die in prison. Assange, who has been jailed in Britain for years, is to make his final attempt to avoid extradition to the US this month. The collaborative project was reported on Tuesday by […]
Source link Chart-topping American country music singer Toby Keith, one of the most recognizable performers in the genre, died on Monday aged 62, his family has announced in a post on X (formerly Twitter). While the statement on Tuesday did not specify the cause of death, merely saying the singer had “passed peacefully” while surrounded […]
Source link Namibian President Hage Geingob has died in a hospital in Windhoek, where he was receiving treatment for cancer from his medical team, the southwest African state’s authorities announced on Sunday. “It is with utmost sadness and regret that I inform you that our beloved Dr. Hage G. Geingob, the President of the Republic […]
Source link Music producer Frank Farian, the mastermind behind 1970s disco band Boney M and disgraced German pop group Milli Vanilli, has died at age 83. Farian, a native of southwestern Germany who grew up in the wake of World War II, passed away at his home in Miami, according to a statement issued by […]
Source link Boris Naroditsky was responsible for creating the adenovirus vector platform that served as the basis for the Sputnik-V shot One of the lead developers of the Russian Sputnik-V coronavirus vaccine, Boris Naroditsky, has died at the age of 82, the chief researcher of the Gamaleya Epidemiology and Microbiology Research Center, Anatoly Altstein, announced […]
Source link The documentary maker was “one of the greatest journalists in all of history,” Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi has said Investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger died on Saturday at his home in London aged 84, his family said on Sunday in a post on X (formerly Twitter). Pilger was known for […]
Source link Jacques Delors headed the European Commission from 1985 to 1995 and served as France’s finance minister Former European Commission President Jacques Delors, who is regularly described as the creator of the EU single market, has died in his Paris home at the age of 98, AFP has reported, citing his daughter Martine Aubry. […]
Source link Wolfgang Schaeuble, the former parliament president who also served as finance minister during the euro debt crisis, has died Wolfgang Schaeuble, the former president of the German parliament, has passed away at the age of 81 after a political career spanning more than 50 years. The veteran Christian-Democratic politician, who held several key […]