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The winner of the 50,000 pound prize will be announced at an event at Old Billingsgate, London, on November 26. Set within the British-Gujarati community, Kenya-born Maroo’s “tender and moving” debut novel talks about grief, sisterhood, and a teenage girl’s struggle to transcend herself. “Skilfully deploying the sport of squash as both context and metaphor, Western Lane is a deeply evocative debut about a family grappling with grief, conveyed through crystalline language which reverberates like the sound “of a ball hit clean and hard…with a close echo,” the judging panel of the 2023 Booker Prize said. London-based Maroo’s stories have…

The incident was reported to have taken place at Lexington Avenue and East 42nd Street around 5:30 p.m.A man driving a stolen vehicle fled from police in Manhattan on Tuesday, plowing into three cars and several pedestrians during a wild chase that ended when New Yorkers tackled the suspect to the ground, cops and sources said as quoted by The New York Post.Nearly 12 people incurred non-life-threatening injuries. The victims were taken to Bellevue hospital for treatment.With police car lights flashing, the man initially “started to pull over” but then pumped the gas, Patrol Borough Manhattan South Deputy Chief James…

“The goal of the museum biennale is to transform the museum into a vibrant, interactive and experiential space. We don’t want visitors to simply observe objects and artifacts of the past; we want them to gain insight into the present and their origins through direct exchanges with art objects. We want the Bihar Museum as well as the biennale to create an ecosystem where people share experiences and emotions,” Alka Pande, Chief Curator and Artistic Producer of BMB, tells IANS.Conceived by Anjani Kumar Singh, the Director General of Bihar Museum in Patna considering Bihar has been at the forefront of…

The aid is aimed at fortifying the general budget, implementing economic and financial reforms, enhancing service conditions, ensuring food security, and alleviating the citizens’ hardships, reported the state-run Saba news agency in Yemen on Tuesday.During the signing ceremony held in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, Yemeni Finance Minister Salem bin Buraik said the “generous support” would help strengthen Yemen’s financial and monetary aspects, and reinforce the state’s capacity to address extraordinary challenges, Xinhua news agency reported.Saudi Arabia had previously provided deposits totaling $4 billion in the Central Bank of Yemen between 2012 and 2022.The Yemeni civil war started in late…

However, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Tuesday warned of a funding shortfall and continuing violence affecting the delivery of relief.According to OCHA, the Unicef reported the lack of financing could affect its provision of water and sanitation services, emergency education and nutrition services.The World Food Programme (WFP) had to cut food assistance from more than four million people assisted in March to 1.8 million people in July, Xinhua news agency reported.The office said more partners would be forced to suspend, scale back or shut down programmes if additional funding is not received immediately.In addition…

“We have seen indications that they might be interested in returning to discussions. So we will wait to see whether that actually happens,” Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US representative to the UN, said on Tuesday at a press briefing on the US presidency of the UN Security Council for August.Russia and Ukraine signed separately with Turkey and the UN the Black Sea Grain Initiative in Istanbul in July 2022, which allowed Ukraine to export grain and other agricultural products from its Black Sea ports, Xinhua news agency reported.Moscow suspended its participation in the agreement on July 17, 2023, saying that it…

Trump has been indicted — and arrested — twice previously on multiple charges regarding payment of hush money to an adult film star to keep quiet about their affair (by New York state) and (by the federal government) for spiriting away classified papers from his presidency instead of turning them over to official archives as required by law.These indictments, and arrests that follow, had made Trump the most only American President facing this kind of legal jeopardy — and there is more coming as Georgia state pursues a similar case of trying to overturn the 2020 election verdict with similar…

Some sniper bullets and shells crossed the outskirts of the camp into the nearby neighbourhoods in Sidon city, and a “B7” shell exploded near a point where several photographers and media staff were stationed. No injuries were recorded.Many Lebanese soldiers were deployed in the area, Xinhua news agency reported.Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi on Tuesday stressed that “the Army is carrying out all its duties in this region, as in others, despite all the difficult circumstances”.The armed clashes between members of the Fatah Movement and Islamic militants in the refugee camp broke out on Saturday night, which had resulted in 11…

“From January to July this year, 59 people were killed by lightning strikes, 23 by blazes and eight by storms,” NCDM spokesperson Soth Kim Kolmony told Xinhua news agency on Tuesday.Besides the fatalities, thunderbolts, fires and storms also injured 217 other people, he said, adding that lightning strikes also killed 87 cattle, Xinhua news agency reported.”To avoid the dangers of lightning strikes, people, particularly those living in rural areas, should stay in houses or shelters when there is storm or rain,” he said.According to the official, lightning strikes and storms often happen during the rainy season from May to October…

“At dawn, units of the government forces, stationed in Wadi Omran and Mudiyah districts of Abyan province, were hit by a large-scale attack by al-Qaeda gunmen approaching from multiple directions,” said the official requesting anonymity on Tuesday.The assault continued for several hours, killing six soldiers and injuring five others, he said, adding that a number of al-Qaeda militants were also reportedly killed during the confrontation.He noted that the attack took place amid a surge in al-Qaeda actions across key regions in Abyan over the past several weeks, Xinhua news agency reported.Local residents reported the arrival of militants from neighbouring provinces…