22-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a national task force to examine how to bolster security for healthcare workers after the “horrific” rape and murder of a doctor sparked medical strikes and furious protests. The discovery of the 31-year-old doctor’s bloodied body at …
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22-08-2024 CHICAGO: Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters in the United States charged a line of police in an intense standoff with officers outside the Israeli consulate on the second night of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago. Protesters on Tuesday chanted “Let them go!” as police handcuffed at least four …
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22-08-2024 CANBERRA: Australia has granted environmental approval for a $19bn solar power project to export electricity to Singapore. The Australia-Asia Power Link is slated to generate 6GW of renewable energy, one-third of which would be transmitted to the Southeast Asia city-state via an undersea cable. SunCable, owned by billionaire software …
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22-08-2024 JERUSALEM: The daughter of one of the six Israeli hostages whose bodies were brought back from Gaza by Israel’s military on Tuesday has accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of putting “political priorities” ahead of a ceasefire and hostage release deal. Inbal Albini Peri told media that her 80-year-old father …
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22-08-2024 CHICAGO: Michelle and Barack Obama gave resounding endorsements of Kamala Harris on Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention, exhorting party supporters across the US to turn out and vote to defeat Donald Trump in November. “Hope is making a comeback,” Obama told the crowd at the DNC in …
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22-08-2024 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: The bodies of six hostages being held by Hamas have been retrieved from an “underground tunnel route” inside the Gaza Strip, Israel’s military has said. A statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the bodies of Yagev Buchshtab, Alexander Dancyg, Avraham Munder, Yoram Metzger, Chaim …
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21-08-2024 CHICAGO: its day two of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. You can watch it live at the top of this page Former President Barack Obama will deliver remarks this evening, as will former First Lady Michelle Obama Other key speakers include Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Kamala …
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21-08-2024 WASHINGTON: The United States has accused Iran of launching cyber-attacks on the presidential campaigns of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump and targeting US voters with influence operations designed to exacerbate political division. The assessment from the FBI and other federal agencies marks the first time the US government has …
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21-08-2024 BEIRUT: The slickly made video shows fighters driving large trucks and motorbikes through well-lit underground roads. Some of the trucks are carrying what appear to be missiles, and as the vehicles drive through, it becomes clear what the makers of the video, the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah are unveiling: …
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21-08-2024 LONDON: Police in England and Wales strip search a child every 19 hours, sometimes fail to carry out those searches correctly, and disproportionately search Black children, the country’s Children’s Commissioner said on Monday. Strip searches of children became a focal point of broader police conduct concern in 2022 following …
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