Tue, 21-Oct-2025

4 dead in London, 1 suspect arrested for murder

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London: A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the bodies of three women and a man were recovered at a home in south London, British police said on Monday. After receiving reports of a disturbance at around 1:40 a.m., officers stormed a home in the Southwark neighbourhood of London (0040 GMT). “Inside, … Read more

Hospitals shelled in Ukraine’s Mykolaiv

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MYKOLAIV, Ukraine: Hospitals came under fire overnight in the port city of Mykolaiv in the south of Ukraine, including a cancer treatment centre and an eye clinic, an AFP reporter said Saturday. The windows were blown out of the cancer treatment centre, where patients were undergoing chemotherapy and the doors damaged. “They shot at the … Read more

Hot Stocks: Dolmen City REIT (DCR)

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Dolmen City REIT (DCR) has been showing signs of recovery after the pandemic phase with the improvement in footfall in recent months. However, the activity has not reached to pre-pandemic levels, as yet. Nonetheless, the REIT has kept its absolute payout unchanged in the last two years, despite concessions offered to tenants, maintaining the stock’s … Read more

Brazil startup dares to deliver to favelas

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SAO PAULO: Clapping their hands, ringing bells and yelling at the top of their lungs to find the right recipient, delivery workers for Brazilian startup Favela Xpress dare to go where traditional companies won’t: the slums. The firm launched in April in Paraisopolis, Sao Paulo’s second-biggest ‘favela’, a sprawling shantytown of 100,000 people with a maze … Read more

Escaping slow death in Beirut, Lebanese embrace farm life

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SINAY, Lebanon: At 28, Thurayya left behind the Beirut neighbourhood where she was born and moved to the family farm, not because of environmental concerns but forced there by Lebanon’s bruising crises. “Living in the city has become very miserable,” she told AFP from the lush south Lebanon farmland planted with avocado trees that is now … Read more