22-07-2024 DHAKA: Bangladesh Supreme Court scales back controversial government job quota system, which triggered deadly nationwide unrest last week. Student leaders vow to press on with demonstrations until key demands are met, including the release of those jailed, and officials responsible for deadly violence resign. It says 93 percent of …
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22-07-2024 Health Ministry says at least 64 people killed and 105 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in past 24 hours. Many victims are still under rubble and on roads, with civil defence crews not able to reach them, it adds. In Yemen, at least three people killed and 87 …
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22-07-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ PRAYAGARAJ: Sunil Kumar, a 30-year-old, has spent the last 9 years of his life chasing a job in the Indian government. Packed with scores of others in makeshift classrooms under tin roofs with barely enough light and air, Kumar has spent years cramming …
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22-07-2024 NEW YORK/ LONDON/ PARIS: Microsoft says it estimates that 8.5m computers around the world were disabled by the global IT outage. It’s the first time a figure has been put on the incident and suggests it could be the worst cyber event in history. The glitch came from a …
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22-07-2024 MICHIGAN: Donald Trump has told a rally in Michigan that he “took a bullet for democracy” when an attempt was made on his life last week. Attended by thousands, it was Trump’s first rally with new running mate JD Vance – and first since he survived the assassination attempt. …
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22-07-2024 JERUSALEM/ SANA’A: Israel has launched air strikes on the Houthi-controlled Red Sea port of Hodeidah in Yemen, a day after a drone launched by the group hit Tel Aviv. Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said his country aimed to send a message to the Houthi movement. “The fire that is …
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21-07-2024 PRETORIA/ LIMPOPO: South African police have uncovered an industrial-scale meth lab and arrested four suspects, including two Mexicans, in one of the country’s biggest-ever drug busts. The laboratory was discovered on a farm in Groblersdal, a small town in Limpopo province in the northeast of the country, the police …
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21-07-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s actual death toll during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic that ravaged the world’s most populous country could be eight times higher than the government’s official numbers, reveals a new study while that initial wave of the virus caught the world …
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21-07-2024 ALON SHVUT/ WEST BANK: Israeli forces pounded several areas across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 30 Palestinians, according to health officials, as tanks advanced deeper into western and northern Rafah. Among those killed on Saturday were local journalist Mohammad Abu Jasser, his wife, and two children, …
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21-07-2024 PORT-AU-PRINCE: The injured are receiving care provided by the IOM, and 11 of them were taken to the nearest hospital, the agency said. Tens of thousands of people flee Haiti every year, escaping poverty, lawlessness and gang violence at home. Rival armed groups took control of the capital, Port-au-Prince, …
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