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Indian medics go for nationwide shutdown

MUMBAI/KOLKATA, Aug 16 (Reuters/PTI): Police in the Indian state of West Bengal on Friday arrested hundreds of protesters angry over the rape and murder of a medic last week, while a doctors' association urged more than a million colleagues nationwide to stop work for a day.Police and local officials said...

Paetongtarn Shinawatra elected youngest Thai PM

BANGKOK, Aug 16 (Reuters): Thailand's parliament elected political neophyte Paetongtarn Shinawatra as its youngest prime minister on Friday, only a day after she was thrust into the spotlight amid an unrelenting power struggle between the country's warring elites.The 37-year-old daughter of divisive political heavyweight Thaksin Shinawatra sailed through a house...

UN calls Israeli settler attack in West Bank 'horrific'

GENEVA, Aug 16 (Agencies): The United Nations on Friday said the deadly Israeli settler attack on a village in the occupied West Bank was "horrific", adding that "by and large, we are seeing impunity" for such attacks.One UN rights official said the Israeli state was responsible for at least some...

Pakistan reports first case of deadly mpox virus

ISLAMABAD, Aug 16 (AFP/Reuters): Pakistan health officials announced on Friday their first case of the deadly mpox virus this year, after the World Health Organization declared an international emergency over its spread."The affected person has come from a Gulf country," a Ministry of Health statement said, adding the strain was...

Energised Biden, Harris tout party unity in joint appearance

LARGO, United States, Aug 16 (AFP): Joe Biden and Kamala Harris made an upbeat show of unity Thursday as they held their first joint public event since Harris replaced the president as the Democratic Party's candidate in November's election.Chants of "Thank you Joe!" rang out from the audience at a...

Poland denies involvement in Nord Stream sabotage

WARSAW, Aug 16 (AFP): A Polish deputy prime minister on Friday denied his country's involvement in the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in September 2022."Poland did not take part in anything. It has to be said clearly that this is a lie," the minister,...

News in Brief -2024-08-17

UN chief calls for banning nuclear testing "for good"UNITED NATIONS, Aug 16: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for banning nuclear testing "for good" in an observance message for the International Day against Nuclear Tests, observed annually on Aug. 29. In the message, Guterres said that across nearly eight...