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25-07-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s parliament was adjourned for a second day after opposition MPs demanded a debate on the violence in the north-eastern state of Manipur. Angry MPs disrupted proceedings by shouting slogans and holding placards in both houses. Home Minister Amit Shah said he was …

25-07-2023 JAKARTA: At least 15 people are dead after a ferry sank off Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island, according to local authorities. The ferry had 40 passengers on board when it sank at approximately midnight (16:00 GMT) and authorities are searching for 19 people who remain missing, Indonesia’s national search and rescue …

25-07-2023 DHAKA: Bangladesh is grappling with a deadly dengue outbreak as heavy monsoon rains in the country cause widespread infections and fill hospitals. Health experts in the South Asian nation of 170 million people say the disease has already reached an “epidemic” proportion, even though the government has not officially …

25-07-2023 WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI: The United States said Sunday it was deeply concerned by reports of viral videos showing two women paraded naked in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, a sexual assault case that enraged the country. The assault, in which a mob allegedly raped and paraded the naked women, …

25-07-2023 JERUSALEM: Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has arrived at parliament for a key vote related to his government’s bitterly contested judicial overhaul, only hours after being discharged from hospital after an emergency heart procedure. Thousands of demonstrators who marched from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem last week remained camped out …

24-07-2023 OTTAWA: Four people, including two children, are missing as severe flooding hit Canada’s Nova Scotia province, authorities said on Saturday evening. Royal Canadian Mounted Police described a harrowing situation in which three people escaped from a car submerged in water but were unable to rescue two children inside. In …

24-07-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Thousands of tribals, mostly women, have staged a massive sit-in protest in India’s Manipur, demanding the arrest of those involved in the harrowing mob assaults on two women, as the opposition parties slammed the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for failing …

24-07-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ TEHRAN/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban has rejected a claim by Iran’s foreign minister that the leaders of the ISIL (ISIS) armed group had been sent to Afghanistan. “If Iran has any intelligence that Daesh members have been transferred to Afghanistan, we hope (they) share it …

24-07-2023 ATHENS: Greece’s capital is facing its hottest July weekend in 50 years with temperatures forecast to soar above 40C (104F) as the nation and others in southern Europe, such as Italy and Spain, swelter in another record-breaking heatwave. “We are expecting breaking records when it comes to temperatures over …

24-07-2023 TEL AVIV: Tens of thousands of Israelis have marched into Jerusalem and more protesters took to the streets in Tel Aviv in a last-ditch show of force aimed at blocking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul plan. Protests have intensified in the days leading up to the debate …