21-07-2024 LONDON/ PARIS/ NEW YORK: IT problems will take ‘some time’ to fix while the criminals seeking to exploit mass IT outage globally, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz claimed. A massive tech failure that caused travel chaos around the world on Friday is continuing to cause some disruption. The boss of …
Read More »Curfew with ‘shoot-on-sight-order’ across Bangladesh
21-07-2024 DHAKA: Police imposed a strict curfew with a “shoot-on-sight” order across Bangladesh as military forces patrolled parts of the capital Saturday after scores were killed and hundreds injured in clashes over the allocation of civil service jobs. The curfew began at midnight and was relaxed from noon to 2 …
Read More »US woman’s conviction overturned after 43 years in prison
21-07-2024 MISSOURI: A woman whose murder conviction was overturned after she served 43 years of a life sentence has been released, despite attempts in the last month by a US state’s attorney-general to keep her behind bars. Sandra Hemme, 64, left a prison in Chillicothe, Missouri, on Friday (Saturday AEST) …
Read More »Bangladesh imposes curfew as protests continue
20-07-2024 DHAKA: Authorities in Bangladesh have imposed a nationwide curfew, after further rioting in the capital Dhaka left an additional 35 people dead. Days of violence have been sparked by students’ calls for the government to axe a rule reserving scores of public jobs for the families of veterans of …
Read More »Tel Aviv hit by drone attack claimed by Iranian-backed Houthis
20-07-2024 TEL AVIV: A long-range Iranian-made drone hit the centre of Tel Aviv in the early hours of Friday in an attack claimed by the Yemen-based Houthi militia that killed one man and wounded four others, the Israeli military and emergency services said. The explosion, which footage shared on social …
Read More »India’s Wipro misses Q1 revenue view
20-07-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: Wipro, opens new tab, India’s fourth-largest IT services player, missed quarterly revenue expectations on Friday due to prolonged softness in key geographies such as Europe, and Asia Pacific, India, Middle East and Africa (APMEA). The company’s consolidated revenue fell 3.8% to 219.64 …
Read More »Republicans put abortion disagreements aside at ‘unity’ convention
20-07-2024 WASHINGTON: Edna Wales, a Republican delegate from Florida, does not support abortion. As a Roman Catholic, the procedure goes against her moral values but her policy position, she told media at a street fair at the Republican National Convention, was that it should be left to the states. “I …
Read More »US policeman who joked about India woman’s death fired
20-07-2024 WEST PRECINCT, VIRGINIA: A US police officer has been fired for saying that an Indian student’s life was of “limited value” after she died last year. The Seattle Police Department said that officer Daniel Auderer’s comments about Jaahnavi Kandula’s death were “vile” and callous”, The Seattle Times reported. Kandula, …
Read More »Air travel, banks, media hit by global cyber outage
20-07-2024 LONDON: A massive technology outage has disrupted businesses and institutions in multiple countries, throwing airports, airlines, rail companies, government services, banks, stock exchanges, supermarkets, telecoms, health systems and media outlets into chaos. The disruption was caused by an update to a product offered by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which had …
Read More »ICJ to give opinion on Israeli occupation
20-07-2024 THE HAGUE: The UN’s top court is set to issue a landmark opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories. The International Court of Justice (ICJ), based at The Hague in the Netherlands, has been examining the issue since the beginning of last year, at …
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