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Flydubai pilot tells Indian prime minister Modi that he couldn’t ‘let anyone die’ – videoFlydubai pilot tells Indian prime minister Modi that he couldn’t ‘let anyone die’ – video

The Indian pilot stabbed by his co-pilot on a flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv replayed the dramatic attack, and his desperate effort to open the cockpit door to seek help, in a video call with the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, on Friday. Smit ​Machchhar spoke to Modi from ...

Christa Pike survived her execution attempt. Tennessee must not try again | Austin SaratChrista Pike survived her execution attempt. Tennessee must not try again | Austin Sarat

What happened to Pike was gruesome. No one deserves what she went through, not even those who commit horrible crimes Botched executions are nothing new in US history. In the era when hangings were common, some condemned people were decapitated. Later, when the electric chair was in vogue, every now ...

The ICE documentary as chilling as a horror movie: ‘We’re trying to put the audience in a position of terror’The ICE documentary as chilling as a horror movie: ‘We’re trying to put the audience in a position of terror’

Film-makers Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller’s new short is an unvarnished portrait of ICE-occupied Minneapolis Get Out. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The Purge. All three films build on an august tradition of using horror as a Trojan horse to comment on the social, political and racial anxieties of their ...

AI weapons systems are already here. Algorithms must not decide who lives and dies | Kenneth RothAI weapons systems are already here. Algorithms must not decide who lives and dies | Kenneth Roth

Israel’s conduct in Gaza shows the danger of using AI in warfare. Humans must remain at the center of wartime decisions As tech leaders warn about the threats of artificial intelligence, most conjure up images of AI agents running amok, such as hacking systems used to run our critical infrastructure, ...

A new Skywalker trilogy for Star Wars? Going back to the same family-saga well is a waste of timeA new Skywalker trilogy for Star Wars? Going back to the same family-saga well is a waste of time

Reports that Jon Watts could make a new trilogy about a clan who have already saved and destroyed the galaxy several times over leaves you wishing for a newer world The Skywalkers: who are they exactly? A family that has moulded the entire Star Wars galaxy in their image, to ...

‘I was fighting for my life’: Indian pilot hailed as hero recalls flydubai cockpit attack‘I was fighting for my life’: Indian pilot hailed as hero recalls flydubai cockpit attack

Smit Machchhar says in video call with Indian PM that he realised if he did not get up then ‘passengers would lose their lives’ The Indian pilot who helped thwart an apparent attempt to crash a flydubai flight has described how he fought for his life in the minutes after ...

Row erupts over Cairo mural depicting Tutankhamun and Nefertiti with dark skinRow erupts over Cairo mural depicting Tutankhamun and Nefertiti with dark skin

Artwork created in Tahrir Square for Chinese president’s state visit to Egypt is painted over amid allegations it revived Afrocentric claims about Pharaohs’ origins On the eve of Chinese president Xi Jinping’s state visit to Cairo last month, the city authorities were busy removing a 66-metre-long mural from the esteemed ...