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 …
Read More »Multimillion-dollar meth lab bust in South Africa
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 …
Read More »‘India’s COVID deaths toll eight times higher than official numbers’
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 …
Read More »Israel kills dozens as it steps up Gaza bombardment
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, …
Read More »Boat fire off Haiti kills at least 40 migrants: UN
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, …
Read More »‘Criminals seeking to exploit mass IT outage globally’
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 …
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