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The court adjourned the hearing of the May 9 cases until August 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Monday (August 12, 2024) rejected the bail application of Bushra Bibi, the wife of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan, in 12 cases related to the violence on May 9, 2023….
Image used for a representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: Reuters Turkey’s military conducted airstrikes in northern Iraq and “neutralised” 17 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the defence ministry said on Monday. Turkey, which typically uses the term neutralised to mean killed, has been carrying out a cross-border operation called Claw-Lock in…
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3-year-old Lei Muzi, the Chinese Bharatanatyam student, performs at the first ever Arangetram, in Beijing, China, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Lei Muzi, a 13-year-old school student scripted history when she performed Bharatanatyam “Arangetram” in China, a landmark in the journey of the ancient Indian dance form that is gaining popularity in…
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The minister took the payment with the help of three alleged accomplices (Representational) Kyiv: A Ukrainian deputy energy minister accused of taking a bribe worth half a million dollars has been arrested along with three alleged accomplices, Ukraine’s SBU Security Service said on Monday. The minister, whom the SBU did not name, allegedly demanded mining…
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Javad Zarif also faced pressure after his appointment because his children hold US citizenship. (File) Tehran: Iran’s former foreign minister Javad Zarif, who negotiated a landmark 2015 nuclear deal with major world powers, on Monday announced he had resigned from his new post as vice president. “I resigned from the position of vice president for…
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Bangladesh interim Government’s Home Affairs Minister said they would investigate to identify the youth in civilian clothes who opened fire at Ansar members. | Photo Credit: Reuters “Bangladesh interim government’s Home Affairs Adviser Brigadier General (retd) M. Sakhawat Hussain on Monday (August 12, 2024) asked protesters to surrender by August 19 all illegal and unauthorised…
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant discussed operational and strategic coordination and the Israeli military’s readiness in the face of Iranian threats | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Sunday (August 11, 2024) that Iran was making preparations for a…
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The police have withheld the identity of the woman (Representational) Seoul: South Korean police said Monday they were investigating a YouTuber who vlogged about undergoing a late-term abortion, sparking online outrage and calls from the country’s health ministry for a murder probe. The woman, whose identity police withheld, claimed in a video posted on Google-owned…
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Thailand Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin could be thrown out of office this week when the country’s Constitutional Court rules on his appointment of a cabinet minister with a criminal conviction. The case comes a week after the same court disbanded the kingdom’s main opposition political…
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Police were loathed for spearheading a lethal crackdown, with more than 450 people killed. (File) Dhaka: Bangladeshi police resumed patrols of the capital Dhaka on Monday, ending a weeklong strike that left a law and order vacuum following the abrupt ouster of autocratic ex-premier Sheikh Hasina. Officers vanished from the streets of the sprawling megacity…
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