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26-05-2023 TOKYO: Three people have been killed including two police officers and one wounded in a shooting and stabbing attack in rural Japan with the camouflage-clad perpetrator barricading himself inside a building, news reports said. Officers rushed to the scene on Thursday after a pedestrian reported a commotion in Nakano …

26-05-2023 DAMASCUS: On a cold winter night, Syrian Ibrahim Othman went out to pray and came home cradling a baby girl, abandoned at the doorstep of the village mosque just hours after she was born. “I took her home and told my wife, ‘I brought you a gift,’” said the …

26-05-2023 CAIRO/ VICTORIA: Hong Kong-flagged Xin Hai Tong 23, a 190-metre bulk carrier, which got stuck in the Suez Canal after running aground, has been refloated into the waters with the help of tugboats, a shipping agent Leth Agencies said Thursday. The ship remained stuck for an hour and 16 …

25-05-2023 By SJA Jafri + Agencies SYDNEY: A 95-year-old woman who was Tasered by police at an Australian care home, sparking a public outcry, has died. Clare Nowland was critically injured after police responded to reports she was wandering around the home with a steak knife at about 04:00 last …

25-05-2023 COLUMBIA: Legislators in the US state of South Carolina have passed a bill that would ban nearly all abortions after around six weeks of pregnancy before most women know they are pregnant. The bill is expected to be signed into law by the state’s Republican governor, Henry McMaster but …

25-05-2023 GEORGETOWN: A deadly fire at a school dormitory in Guyana appears to have been started by a pupil who was angry her mobile phone had been confiscated, officials say. Nineteen people mostly female students were killed in the blaze in the South American country in the early hours of …

25-05-2023 BERLIN: German police have carried out raids in seven states in a probe into climate campaigners suspected of forming or backing a criminal group because of their controversial activities. Seven people aged 22 to 38 are suspected. No arrests have been made. For months Last Generation has disrupted traffic …

25-05-2023 MOSCOW: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has promised a “harsh response” to cross-border incursions from Ukraine. His comments came after Moscow said it had defeated an attack in the Belgorod region. However, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said there had been a “large number” of drone attacks overnight. Ukraine denies …

25-05-2023 PRETORIA: As deaths from cholera this week rose to 15 in Gauteng, South Africa’s most populous province, many residents are blaming the government for a lack of clean water for drinking and other household uses. The health department in Gauteng declared a cholera outbreak on Sunday in Hammanskraal, an …

25-05-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY/ NEW DELHI: Australian Prime Minister Antony Albanese and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, have pledged to take relations between their countries to “greater heights”, signing new agreements on migration and green hydrogen, as Canberra seeks to boost trade and diplomatic ties with New Delhi …