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Police clashed violently with protesters in Moscow and arrested more than 1,800 demonstrators in cities across the country Saturday as Russians took to the streets to denounce Kremlin rule and demand the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Tens of thousands demonstrated across Russia after Navalny called on his supporters to take to the streets this week following his detention in a Moscow airport on arrival from Germany, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal poisoning with the Novichok nerve agent. Protesters flooded Pushkin Square in central Moscow and nearby streets, pelting heavily armed riot police with snowballs, but were detained in large numbers and beaten back by law enforcement wielding batons. The protesters spilled out onto the Russian capital's main thoroughfare, Tverskaya Street, and marched towards the Kremlin before dispersing throughout the city centre. Protesters at one point massed on the steps of Moscow's circus, illuminating the crowds wit

Baghdad:  The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a twin suicide bombing that killed 32 people and wounded 110 at a crowded market in central Baghdad on Thursday. It was the deadliest attack on the city in three years, when another suicide bomber targeted the same area. The first attacker drew a crowd at the bustling market in the  capital's Tayaran Square  by claiming to feel sick, then detonated his explosives belt, the interior ministry said. As more people then flocked to the scene to help the victims, a second suicide bomber set off his explosives. The open-air market, where second-hand clothes are sold at stalls, had been teeming with people after the lifting of nearly a year of Covid-19 restrictions across the country. An AFP photographer at the scene said security forces had cordoned off the area, where blood-soaked clothes were strewn across the muddy streets and paramedics were rushing to take away the casualties. The health ministry said those who lost their l

(AFP via Getty Images) Gun control organisations and school shooting survivors have called for newly elected Republican congresswoman  Marjorie Taylor Greene  to step down after more uncovered social media posts appear to show her supporting conspiracies that the 9-11 attacks were “done by our own" government and that "none of the school shootings were real or done by the ones who were supposedly arrested for them." Earlier this week , Media Matters discovered that the Georgia congresswoman appeared to endorse a conspiracy theory on Facebook in 2018 that the deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in  Parkland , Florida was a “false flag” event. The right-wing media research  group also found  that she had replied to a Facebook comment in 2018 amplifying numerous conspiracies, including that the killing of 20 children and six school staff members at  Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 was a “staged” event, and that there are messages in the Georgia

A rare twin suicide bombing killed nearly 30 in central Baghdad on Thursday, Iraqi state media said, the deadliest attack in the city in three years.  At least 28 people were killed and another 73 wounded in the attack on a huge open-air market for second-hand clothes in the Iraqi capital's Tayaran Square.  AFP Two explosions The police officials said two explosions hit the commercial center in central Baghdad. Iraqi state television reported they were suicide bombings. Many of the wounded were in serious condition and there was property damage.  The market had been teeming with people following nearly a year of restrictions imposed across the country in a bid to halt the spread of Covid-19. AFP How perpetrators attacked the capital? According to an interior ministry statement, the first suicide bomber rushed into the market, claiming to feel sick. Once a crowd of people had gathered around him, he detonated his explosives.    As people then flocked around the victims, a second att

Madrid, January 20:  An explosion occurred in Madrid, the capital city of Spain. As per reports, an an eight-level residential building with serious damage and debris littered over the street. The explosion happened at the Toledo street in the city. Huge smoke could be seen rising from the scene from across the city.  Balochistan Bomb Blast: Two Killed, 7 Injured in Explosion in Panjgur. Also Read |  Alcoyano vs Real Madrid, Copa del Rey 2020-21 Live Telecast & Free Streaming Online in IST: How To Watch Round of 32 Encounter on TV in India With Live Football Score Updates The Mayor of Madrid city said that at least two people died in the blast, as reported by Reuters. As per the reports, the initial information shows that the blast was caused by a gas leak in the building. Officials haven't confirmed the reason as yet. Afghanistan Blast: 2 Explosions Rock Kabul, 3 Injured. Watch the Video Here:  Also Read |  Real Madrid Announces 20-Member Squad for Copa Del Rey Match Against A

 Every year, the citizens of the US state of Virginia take to the steps of the state Capitol, the first Monday after the General Assembly comes together for its annual legislative session, to address their concerns to legislators, on what is known as Lobby Day. However, the 2021 Lobby Day is different. Given the rising COVID-19 cases in the US and the violence that engulfed the US Capitol building on 6 January, Virginia lawmakers are meeting remotely, rather than in the Richmond Capitol. As it has been in the past few years, the Virginia Civil Defense League, a gun-rights group, among others, organised the Lobby Day rally in the City of Richmond, bringing caravans from 12 localities. The rally was also expected to bring caravans from places as far as New York and Texas. The rally was organised in protest of plans put forth by the state’s Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation. Denied a rally permit by authorities, trucks and cars with waving American flags streamed throu

Fears of tighter gun-control measures by the incoming Biden administration are stoking sales of firearms – with Glock  handguns  and semi-automatic  weapons flying off the shelves and even selling out in some stores. Among President-elect  Joe Biden ’s campaign promises was a pledge to end  gun violence , which included banning assault weapons, closing loopholes in background checks on guns, limiting stockpiling of weapons and ending the online sale of firearms. It is this anticipated clampdown that is fuelling firearms sales, which are currently already at a high as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic,  Forbes reported . One gun shop manager, Danielle Jaymes from Poway Weapons & Gear in California, told the outlet: “We’re selling a lot of ARs. “I really can’t keep the ARs on the wall. A lot of people are worried about the assault weapon ban we’ve heard our president-elect and our vice president-elect talk about.” Indeed, it is not just Biden whose outlook on gun control h