Police cordon off an area in Leicester Square, as a man was arrested with the accusation of stabbing an 11-year-old girl and 34-year-old woman, in London, Monday Aug. 12, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP London’s Metropolitan Police say a man has been arrested after an 11-year-old girl and a 34-year-old woman were stabbed in central…
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…
At least seven people were injured in a collision between a state transport bus and a truck on the Mumbai-Agra national highway on Monday in Maharashtra`s Nashik district, police said, reported the PTI. According to the PTI, the injured persons included the bus driver and five passengers and the truck attendant, an official said. The…
Facing backlash over the rape and murder of a doctor at state-run RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, principal Sandip Ghosh resigned from his post and government service on Monday morning, days after junior doctors demanded his removal for failing to provide security to the staff. Across the state, hospital services were disrupted as junior…
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…
Firefighters try to extinguish a wildfire burning in Dionysos, Greece, on August 12, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters “Greece ordered fresh evacuations near Athens on Monday (August 12, 2024) as wildfires spread despite “superhuman” efforts to contain the flames,” firefighters said. At least five more communities were told to flee by civil protection authorities on…
The protesting police officers had sought justice for those responsible for the attacks on police establishments. | Photo Credit: AFP “Protesting police officers in Bangladesh have agreed to call off their strike after the interim government assured them to meet most of their demands,” according to media reports on Monday (August 12, 2024.) The Bangladesh…
Hamas on Sunday (August 11, 2024) urged Gaza mediators to implement a truce plan presented by U.S. President Joe Biden instead of holding more talks, as Palestinians fled a new Israeli military operation. The statement from the Palestinian group, whose October 7 attack on Israel triggered the war, came a day after one of the…
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