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2 April 2024; NEW YORK (AP) — Inmates in New York are suing the state corrections department over the decision to lock down prisons during next Monday’s total solar eclipse.

11 October 2023; MEMO: Two years after their self-inflicted humiliation on social media, Hindutva users in India have once again expressed disappointment that Israel has not included them in their latest online propaganda campaigns, which feature supporters and messages of solidarity with the occupying state from around the world.

Tapi; 5 May 2023 (UMMN): 22-year-old Mohammed Ameen Arif Anjum, a resident of Malegaon in Maharashtra’s Nashik district, was sentenced to life in prison by a sessions court at Vyara in Tapi district in Gujarat for “illegally transporting cows”

27 October 2022; MEMO: Social media users have responded to President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's speech at the Egypt 2022 Economic Conference with tweets and posts mocking his call on citizens to "go to the zoo to understand the reality of the situation in Egypt and see the magnitude of deterioration, facilities, negatives and exhaustion," which they found vague and illogical.

12 August 2022; MEMO: A disoriented brown bear cub, believed to have been intoxicated after eating an excessive amount of "mad honey", was rescued in northwestern Turkey's Duzce province yesterday, Reuters reported.

Footage showed the bear wobbling and whining as she sat belly-up in the back of a pick-up truck, after people rescued the visibly-debilitated animal from the forest.

Mad honey, or "deli bal" in Turkish, is a type of rhododendron honey that can have hallucinogenic effects.

06 July 2022; MEMO: An Egyptian man has filed a lawsuit against his wife for giving birth to a baby with Down's syndrome, it has been reported. The court hearing the case ruled to reject the lawsuit and provide justice for the woman.

29 April 2022; MEMO: A stampede broke out at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv when American tourists tried to take an unexploded shell through security as a 'souvenir', local media reports.

According to the report, passengers in the departure lounge at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv rushed for the exits after staff slammed the alarm.

When the American tourists appeared with the hefty undetonated shell piece at security, airport guards thought the family may be terrorists and launched an emergency evacuation.

14 April 2022; MEMO: A chef in Turkey launched a kebab into the stratosphere on Tuesday, to coincide with the International Day of Human Flight marking the 61st anniversary of the first human space flight made by Soviet Yuri Gagarin.

According to the Daily Sabah, Yasar Aydin – who owns a kebab restaurant, and local entrepreneur and space engineering student Idris Albayrak launched the eponymous Adana kebab into the stratosphere, becoming Turkey's "first export to space".

Sasaram, Apr 9 (PTI) A 60-feet-long steel bridge was dismantled and stolen by a group of men posing as government officers in Bihar's Rohtas district, police said on Saturday.

The bridge, weighing 500 tons, was built over the Arrah canal in Amiyawar village in Nasriganj police station area in 1972, they said.

A group of men, posing as officers of the Irrigation Department, dismantled the defunct bridge with the help of gas-cutters and earthmovers over three days, police said.

Unnao (UP), Dec 20 (PTI) A sub-inspector (SI) was suspended on Monday after a video emerged in which he was allegedly seen justifying taking bribe from people for doing their work.

"If police takes money, it also does the work. Go to some other department, they will take money but they won't do your work," SI Umesh Tripathi, posted at Bighapur Police Station, was reportedly heard saying in the video made during a programme here.

The video was stated to be of November 29, when a police programme was held at a local school.