Harim Syria While his wife and two daughters lay under the rubble after Syria's earthquake, Abdelbaset Khalil tended to hundreds of patients who flooded into his hospital. Khalil, a nurse anaesthetist, was already at work when the 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Turkey and Syria last week, flattening
London: US and Libyan authorities may have violated due process in the arrest and extradition of alleged Lockerbie bombing suspect Abu Agela Masud Kheir Al-Marimi, Human Rights Watch has warned. The US had long pursued Al-Marimi over his alleged role in the 1988 Pan Am Flight
London: UK police charged a teenager with violent disorder and assault after an anti-immigrant demonstration at a hotel housing asylum seekers, which saw protesters throw fireworks and set alight a police van. Merseyside Police said they had charged 19-year-old Jarad Skeete over the beating of an
Washington: US military fighter jets shot down an octagonal object over Lake Huron, the Pentagon said, the latest incident since a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon put North American security forces on high alert. It was the fourth flying object to be shot down over North America
London: Britain will review its security following the incursion of a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon into U.S. airspace earlier this month, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said. The United States shot down the balloon, which it said was being used to spy on it, and three further
Srinagar: Lithium is a non-ferrous metal and is one of the key components in EV batteries. “For the first time, lithium reserves have been discovered and that too in Jammu and Kashmir,” Indian Mines Secretary Vivek Bharadwaj said. Upon exploration by the Geological Survey of India
New Delhi: For the first time in history, Delhi is officially the “rape capital” of India. Even while the pace of increase in the number of reported rapes in the city has slowed down, the number of such cases proportionate to its women population was
New Delhi: This year, India’s government is asking citizens to spend Valentine’s Day snuggling up with a cow. According to the details, Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) has issued a notice appealing to people to celebrate “Cow Hug Day” on 14 February, claiming the act
New York: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s actions to suppress press freedom are undermining India’s status as “the world’s largest democracy,” resulting in “a shrill Hindu nationalism in news reports that echoes the government line,” according to New York Times. “When populist leaders invoke emergency laws to
New Delhi: Gujarat has reported the highest number of deaths under police custody among all states and Union Territories between 2017 and 2022, the Centre told the Parliament last week. Eighty persons have died under the custody of police in the state over the five years.