Algeria’s government is seeking to pass a controversial new law that would deprive nationals living abroad of their citizenship if their activities are deemed detrimental to the country. The preliminary draft law was presented on March 3 by the Minister of Justice, Belkacem Zeghmati, and drew swift condemnation from lawyers, human rights activists and legal experts. The proposed law would effectively stifle all forms of protest, said Massenssen Cherbi, a constitutional law researcher. “According to this jurisprudence, any person who questions, from abroad, the legitimacy of the President of the Republic may be deprived of Algerian nationality,” said Cherbi. “This…
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PUNE, India — “I fell in love with the sport after seeing boxers such as Sugar Ray [Leonard], Mary Kom, and Manny Pacquiao,” Hatdeiphal Manlun, a 15-year-old from Kohima in India’s northeastern state of Nagaland, told Zenger News. “My main aim of life is to become a World Champion someday.” Manlun decided to join the Mary Kom Regional Boxing Foundation in 2020 after looking at the facilities they provide. Sports training in India is monopolized by the government and isn’t working. In over 120 years, India has managed to get only 28 Olympic medals. For such a large population, Abhinav Bindra…
PUNE, India — Himachal Pradesh, a small mountain state in northern India, has set an ambitious target — to generate INR 18,000 crores ($2.5 billion) annually by undertaking the controlled cultivation of cannabis. In a state budget meeting, the state’s Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur announced that cannabis produced in the state is of high quality, and there is enormous potential to undertake its controlled cultivation. While this announcement is a welcome move considering years of political struggle in India for cannabis legalization, the lack of comprehensive laws and the cultural taboo around cannabis might be the immediate hurdles. “Cannabis extract…
SRINAGAR — Sayar Abdullah, 24, dreams of becoming like Bartosz Ostalowski, a professional sport driver who drives with feet. But professional motorsport is a distant shore for this young man from Kashmir. The troubled political landscape of India’s northernmost region, as well as a personal disability, are proving to be hurdles for Abdullah. When Abdullah was 12 years old, he met with a road accident. This resulted in the amputation of his right arm. He is from the Vessu village about 65 kilometers (40 miles) south of Kashmir’s capital Srinagar “But that did not break my dream,” he told Zenger News. “I decided to learn…
MUMBAI, India — Thirty-one-year-old Siraj Hassan is a software developer-turned-3D artist. He has had a passion for photography and videography since his college days, and it was around 2014 that he started dabbling with software such as Adobe Photoshop and Cinema4D. Since December 2020, Hassan has monetized his artwork by selling it online uniquely. “I follow this artist named Jonathan Quinn on Instagram,” Hassan told Zenger News. “Last October, he started posting about selling his digital artwork online for cryptocurrency. This intrigued me. After interacting with him, I learned about this concept of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), crypto art, and blockchain-based digital art platforms.”…
SCHWAZ, Austria — Austrian health officials said a vaccinated pensioner was tested positive for Covid-19 after her reports confirmed she was infected with both the British and the South Africa variant. However, officials now believe that the woman is actually infected with a mutated version of the British variant, which has somehow adopted the South African variant’s mutations to spread more efficiently. The 80-year-old woman was admitted into the KH Schwaz hospital in the Austrian district of Schwaz in Tyrol on March 20. “No such case was described,” said a spokesperson from the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety…
SYDNEY, Australia — Aerial footage released by the Australian officials showed the aftermath of the devastating floods that submerged Australia’s New South Wales in the past week. The video, released by the New South Wales Rural Fire Service on March 23, showed one of the affected neighborhoods that are still suffering the consequences as the water has evidently not retreated yet, although the rains have stopped. The New South Wales Rural Fire Service said they were still out and actively engaged in rescuing residents from flooded homes as well as assessing the damage in the affected areas. “With the sun…
CRAWLEY, England — This is the moment a drug dealer attempted to eat dozens of pills when stopped by the U.K. police and is then forced to spit them out by the officers. The incident happened when suspect Kewbe Tomlinson was traveling along Balcombe Road in Crawley in the U.K. and was stopped by the Specialist Enforcement Unit (SEU) on Jan. 6. He was targeted by the unit because officers had information that the car was being used in the supply of drugs. “This is an excellent example of teams within the force working together to bring offenders to justice…
RUS, Spain — A massive 1,600-year-old Roman villa measuring over 20,000 square feet was discovered in southern Spain. The villa boasts a huge mosaic measuring over 60 feet long. The experts think that the villa probably belonged to a rich family that owned numerous farms, which is why they had enough capital to afford such a luxurious mosaic. The excavations took place at the archeologic site of El Altillo, located in the municipality of Rus, in the southern Spanish province of Jaen, in the Andalusia region, after a few remains from the mosaic were unearthed. Dr. Jose Luis Serrano Pena,…
PRIMORSKII, Russia — A female Amur tigress and her little cub recently provided some amazing up-close footage of themselves sniffling around a camera trap they discovered in their national park. The clip was from the “Land of the Leopard” National Park, located in Russia’s federal subject of Primorsky Krai, and the park shared the footage on their Instagram page on March 24. “Capturing the vocalization of the Amur tiger is a great success,” said the zoo officials, “Thirty-one adult Amur tigers have been recorded on Land of the Leopard. This is the highest tiger density among the specially protected natural areas…