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Former Cambridge Professor Jason Arday Found Dead at 41 Jason Arday, the former University of Cambridge professor who recently resigned amid controversy, has been found dead at the age of 41. Emergency services were called to an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon, where Arday was discovered unresponsive. The London Ambulance Service arrived shortly after 3:00 p.m., deploying an ambulance crew, an advanced paramedic, and a Hazardous Area Response Team. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The Metropolitan Police stated that while the death is unexpected, it is not...

“This Is the midnight – let no star“Delude us – dawn is very far.“This is the tempest long foretold“Slow to make head but sure to hold.” Rudyard Kipling, England’s greatest poet of Empire, who then became the unwilling prophet and witness of that empire’s catastrophe and coming dissolution, published that frightening warning in 1932, the […]

A Saudi airstrike hit a home in Yemen’s northern Hajjah province on Tuesday, killing a family of six, including four young children, according to the Yemeni Health Ministry within the Ansar Allah-led government. The ministry said that the children were aged three to eight and that a six-year-old girl was also wounded in the strike. […]