NEW DELHI, July 07: Two soldiers and six suspected militants were killed in two separate gun battles in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said Sunday. Kashmir police inspector general Vidhi Kumar Birdi told AFP that authorities in the disputed territory had "carried out two different operations" in villages in the Kulgam district. Birdi said two members of the security forces had been killed, with clashes continuing in Modergram and Frisal Chinnigam villages. "We have retrieved the bodies of two terrorists from Modergram, and four others from Frisal Chinnigam," said Birdi. This is the latest incident in an uptick of attacks in the disputed territory. India and Pakistan both claim Muslim-majority Kashmir in full and have fought three wars for control of the Himalayan region. — AFP
Three children dead in
fatal house fire in Sydney
SYDNEY, July 07: Police of Australia's State of New South Wales (NSW) said on Sunday that three children, one ten-month-old girl and two boys aged two and four, were dead in a fatal house fire in western Sydney. The NSW police said in a report that emergency services were called to Freeman Street, Lalor Park, following reports of a house fire at about 1 a.m. local time on Sunday. The three children are yet to be formally identified, said the police. A 29-year-old woman has been taken to hospital for smoke inhalation and a 28-year-old man was arrested at the scene. The police are investigating the incident. — Xinhua
New UK foreign minister in
Germany for first trip abroad
BERLIN, July 07: Britain's newly appointed Foreign Secretary David Lammy travelled to Germany Saturday in his first trip abroad a day after Labour won a landslide victory, calling for a "reset" in relations with European allies. Lammy, 51, held talks with his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock, who underlined that "the United Kingdom is an indispensable part of Europe". She added that Germany is "working with the new UK government to see how the UK can move closer to the EU", the German foreign ministry wrote on X, formerly Twitter. Lammy, who replaced Conservative David Cameron as foreign secretary, also posted photos of his meeting with Baerbock. — AFP
Women fight Tokyo election
in male-dominated Japan
TOKYO, July 07: Tokyo residents vote Sunday to elect a new governor for the Japanese capital with incumbent Yuriko Koike challenged by opposition figure Renho, two prominent women in the country's male-dominated political sphere. Japan has never had a woman prime minister and a large majority of lawmakers are men, but Tokyo, accounting for a tenth of the national population and a fifth of the economy, has been run since 2016 by former television anchor Koike, 71. While few now tout the former defence and environment minister as a possible future prime minister, as many once did, polls suggest that the media-savvy conservative will win a third straight term in the metropolis of 14 million people. — AFP
News in Brief 2024-07-08
FE Team | Published: July 07, 2024 22:28:07
News in Brief 2024-07-08
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