18-08-2024 BERMUDA: Hurricane Ernesto has made landfall in Bermuda, leaving tens of thousands of people without power as it lashed the British island territory with powerful winds, a dangerous storm surge and potentially deadly flooding. The Category 1 storm brought maximum sustained winds of 140km/h (87mph) to Bermuda home to …
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18-08-2024 HARARE: Tens of millions of people in Southern Africa are suffering the effects of an El Nino-induced drought, a regional bloc has warned, with a drop in crop and livestock production causing food shortages in several countries. Elias Magosi, executive secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), said …
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18-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ KOLKATA: Indian doctors launched a nationwide strike Saturday, escalating protests after the “barbaric” rape and murder of their colleague that has channeled outrage at the chronic issue of violence against women. The discovery of the 31-year-old doctor’s bloodied body at a state-run hospital …
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18-08-2024 KATMANDU: A Sherpa village in Nepal’s Everest region has been engulfed by icy flood waters, officials say. Experts suspect Thame which sits at an altitude of about 3,800m was flooded after a glacial lake burst its banks. Scientists have warned that climate change is causing many glaciers in the …
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18-08-2024 DOHA/ WASHINGTON: Joe Biden has said he is “optimistic” that a Gaza ceasefire deal can be reached. “We are closer than we’ve ever been,” the US president said following the latest round of talks, adding he was sending his secretary of state to Israel to continue the “intensive efforts …
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17-08-2024 DHAKA: As cases rise against her, including murder accusations, Bangladesh will decide whether to ask India to extradite former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who resigned and fled to New Delhi last week, the country’s de-facto foreign minister Mohammad Touhid Hossain said on Thursday. Hossain said in an interview he …
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17-08-2024 DOHA/ CAIRO: Negotiators were to meet in the Qatari capital Doha again on Friday in an effort to hammer out a Gaza ceasefire agreement as Israel continued to slam targets in the Palestinian enclave. Gaza health officials reported separately on Thursday that the death toll there had surpassed 40,000 …
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17-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ KOLKATA: Holding candles, hundreds of thousands of women marched through the night in cities across India, to protest the brutal rape and murder of a young female doctor in a hospital that has fueled anger over a lack of safety for women despite …
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17-08-2024 WASHINGTON: Vice-President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden have appeared at an event together for the first time since the president ended his run for a second term and Harris replaced him as the Democratic nominee. The event, held just outside Washington DC, came as Donald Trump spoke at …
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17-08-2024 KYIV/ MOSCOW: Ukraine has set up a military administrative office in Russia’s western Kursk region, where its surprise incursion into Russian territory continues, according to its top military commander. Gen Oleksandr Syrsky said the office would “maintain law and order” and “meet the immediate needs” of the population in …
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