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One of America’s popular TV show hosts, Jerry Springer, is dead. Springer, host of the widely syndicated ‘The Jerry Springer Show’ died on Thursday morning in his home after succumbing to pancreatic cancer.  TMZ quoting a family source, reports that Springer, one of the most influential and controversial hosts in television history was diagnosed of the ailment a few months ago. However, his illness took a turn for the worse this week. Springer is known to have run for a sit in the  US Congress in 1970 but failed before getting elected to Cincinnati’s City Council the following year. He…

The Philippine government said on Wednesday it had apprehended some of its citizens on suspicion of spying for China in ‌a “serious national security matter” that underscores the need for stricter laws against espionage and foreign interference. Authorities did not provide details about the case, including how many people had been apprehended or whether charges had been filed. “The operations of these individuals acting on the behest of Chinese intelligence have been addressed and terminated,” the National Security Council ​said in a statement. “Necessary actions have been taken against the individuals concerned, all Filipino nationals, who have all confessed their…

Health facilities and medical staff are being affected amid the ongoing conflict in Iran, the head of the World Health Organization warned after several hospitals and emergency centers were reportedly damaged. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Tuesday that blasts near Motahari Hospital in the Iranian capital Tehran damaged parts of the facility and forced the evacuation of patients and health workers on March 1. “Health facilities, staff and patients are being affected amid the ongoing conflict in Iran,” Tedros said on the US social media company X. He added that two medical emergency centers in the cities of Sarab…

Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree that, among other issues, introduced life imprisonment for pedophilia. The signing of the decree was announced in a Tuesday statement by the Uzbek presidency after Mirziyoyev reviewed proposals and initiatives aimed at further strengthening the system for protecting the rights of women and children at an interdepartmental council meeting. Noting the review also concerned proposals and new initiatives aimed at preventing cases of harassment and violence against women and children, the statement said these issues have been repeatedly discussed at the highest level, with specific tasks assigned to law enforcement agencies and other…

Mojtaba Khamenei, son of ​Iran’s late Supreme Leader, has survived the ‌U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Iran in which his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed, two Iranian sources told ​Reuters on Wednesday. Mojtaba is seen by the ​establishment as a possible successor to his ⁠father, the sources said. A mid-ranking cleric with close ​ties to Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, hardliner Mojtaba ​is one of the most influential figures in the Iranian clerical establishment. He has for years been seen ​as one of the top candidates to succeed ​his father. “He (Mojtaba) is alive … he was not in Tehran when ‌the…

Iranians will bid farewell to late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ​at a ceremony in Tehran late on Wednesday, ‌a senior Iranian official told state media. Hojjatoleslam Mahmoudi, head of Iran’s Islamic Propagation Council, ​said the farewell ceremony would continue ​for three days and the funeral ⁠procession will be announced later. he official ​said the public will be able ​to pay their respects to the body of late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei at Tehran’s ​Imam Khomeini Prayer Hall starting at ​10 p.m. (1830 GMT). “The Mosalla (prayer hall) will be receiving ‌visitors ⁠and the dear people can attend and take…

A South Korean court held an appeals hearing on Wednesday in a case involving ​former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who ‌was sentenced to five years in jail by a lower court on charges including obstructing arrest after his attempt to impose ​martial law. At the first hearing at the Seoul ​High Court on obstruction of justice and ⁠other charges stemming from his martial law bid ​in December 2024, Yoon appeared in a dark navy ​suit, the Yonhap News Agency said. Prosecutors, who had sought a 10-year term for Yoon, argued the five-year sentence was “far too lenient” ​given that Yoon…

 A Russian drone hit an empty passenger train in Ukraine’s southern Mykolaiv ​region early on Wednesday, injuring a ‌railway worker, Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said. He added that there was also an ​attempted Russian drone attack on a ​train operating between the eastern-central city ⁠of Dnipro and Kovel in the ​northwest late on Tuesday, but it was ​stopped by railway workers and the drone hit a few metres away from the locomotive. Ukrzaliznytsia, Ukrainian ​national railways, said that Russia had ​intensified drone attacks on railway infrastructure, and that rolling ‌stock ⁠was among the main targets. It reported that 18…

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday described the ongoing military escalation in the Middle East as “another example of the failure of the international order.” “Canada has long seen Iran as the principal source of instability and terror in the Middle East,” he said, arguing that Iran and “its proxies have murdered hundreds, including Canadian civilians, and caused untold suffering for millions of people in the Middle East and beyond.” “We support efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security,” he said, noting that “Canada is…