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15-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ KOLKATA: Early on Friday morning, a 31-year-old female trainee doctor retired to sleep in a seminar hall after a grueling day at one of India’s oldest hospitals. It was the last time she was seen alive. The next morning, her colleagues discovered her …

15-08-2024 OHIO: A police officer accused of shooting a pregnant woman in Ohio has been charged with her murder. Ta’Kiya Young, 21, was around 25 weeks pregnant at the time of her death last August. Her unborn daughter also died in the police shooting. On Tuesday, a grand jury in …

15-08-2024 TOKYO: Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will not seek re-election as leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which he says needs a “new start”. The 67-year-old LDP veteran is expected to step down as PM after the party elects a new leader in September. Support for Kishida, …

15-08-2024 JERUSALEM: A far-right Israeli minister has led hundreds of Jewish Israelis into Jerusalem’s most contested holy site, with many defying the Israeli government’s long-standing ban on Jewish prayer there. The visit by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, known to Jews as Temple Mount, has …

14-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ KOLKATA: Hospital services were disrupted in several Indian cities on Tuesday after a doctors’ protest spread nationwide following the rape and murder of a trainee medic in the city of Kolkata, authorities and media said. Thousands of doctors marched on Monday in Kolkata …

14-08-2024 LONDON: Seven people have been charged using terror laws over a Palestine Action protest at an Israeli-based defence firm’s site, the Crown Prosecution Service said. The incident happened at the Elbit Systems UK building near Patchway, Gloucestershire, on 6 August. The CPS said it would be submitting to the …

14-08-2024 WASHINGTON: The FBI has opened an investigation into allegations from the Trump campaign that it was targeted by hackers working for the Iranian government. “We can confirm the FBI is investigating the matter,” the agency said in a short statement on Monday without specifically naming the former president or …

14-08-2024 UNITED NATIONS/ SANA’A: Flooding in Yemen has left at least 57 people dead and thousands displaced, the UN has said. More than 34,000 families were affected by the heavy rains, which began in late June and intensified in early August, according to the UN humanitarian affairs office (OCHA). It …

14-08-2024 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: The Australian city of Melbourne has banned rental electronic scooters with officials saying they posed unacceptable safety risks. The U-turn by the city’s council comes after it first welcomed the scooters in February 2022, saying they would operate a two-year trial. However, hundreds of accidents since …

14-08-2024 ATHENS: A new evacuation alert for the Greek seaside town of Nea Makri has been ordered on Tuesday, as fierce wildfires continue to affect the suburbs of Athens. One person has died, with a body, believed to be of a woman, found inside a shop in the town of …