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13-07-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ KOLKATA: Indian police said on Friday they had arrested dozens of people for violence and vandalism during protests this week over ‌the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in an eastern state. Police said one innocent person had been lynched by angry crowds. Protesters …

13-07-2026 MADRID: At least 12 people have died in a wildfire in southern Spain, with early indications suggesting four of the victims are British, according to a local official. Hundreds of emergency responders are working to extinguish the blaze around Los Gallardos, Almeria, officials say they’ve never had such a …

13-07-2026 LONDON: Andy Burnham, the Labour politician widely seen as the United Kingdom’s prime minister-in-waiting, has issued an apology for his party’s stance on Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and says he will increase pressure on Israel. Burnham, the former Manchester Mayor who re-entered parliament in June by winning a …

13-07-2026 NEW DELHI/ DHAKA: Ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says she plans to return to the country from exile in December, despite a death sentence passed during her two-year stay in India. The 78-year-old former leader told the Reuters news agency in an interview published on Friday that she …

13-07-2026 MANILA: Dozens of people have been killed in landslides in the Philippines as Typhoon Bavi bears down on the region. A landslide early on Friday killed 10 people as it hit Malapatan in the southern Sarangani province of the island of Mindanao, according to the Philippine News Agency. At …

13-07-2026 LONDON: British police are investigating at least 500,000 pounds ($670,000) in donations made to the far-right Reform UK party, adding to a widening campaign-finance scandal that prompted party leader Nigel Farage to abruptly resign his seat in parliament this week. Police said on Friday that they were investigating potential …

13-07-2026 DAMASCUS: Syrian authorities say they have arrested the cell responsible for recent bombings in Damascus and the suspects are affiliated with ISIL (ISIS). “Preliminary investigations into the members of the cell involved in the July 7 Damascus bombings have shown that the cell was affiliated with the IS group,” …

12-07-2026 KINSHASA: At least 600 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have died from Ebola, as the number of confirmed cases of the illness rose to 1,759, according to government data. The total numbers, released on Wednesday, were confirmed as of Tuesday, while 51 new cases and …

12-07-2026 SYDNEY: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese in Melbourne on Thursday, with the two leaders expected to discuss critical minerals, trade, defence and security cooperation. Modi, who previously ‌visited Australia in 2023, touched down Wednesday night to a red-carpet welcome in Melbourne, where …

12-07-2026 BERLIN: A German palliative care doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 15 of his patients. A court in Berlin found the 41-year-old man, named only as Johannes M. in line with German privacy rules, guilty of murdering 12 women and 3 men between September 2021 and …