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BBCDr Anwar’s makeshift clinic is unable to deal with seriously injured protestersDr Anwar’s makeshift clinic is not far from the main protest site in the city of Rawalakot in Pakistan-administered Kashmir (PAK). A spare bedroom acts as a medical supply cupboard, outside is a bed under a red stretched tarpaulin.Lying across the bed is Shafqat Hussain, shot in the chest. The sheet he lies on is already stained with the blood of previously injured. He is dying.In the last two months, dozens of people have been killed across the region in clashes between security officials and protesters from the group…
Watch: Malaysian boy goes on trial for allegedly murdering girl at schoolA teenage boy in Malaysia is on trial for allegedly killing a female schoolmate, in a high-profile case that has sparked debate about the effects of social media on children.The boy is accused of murdering 16-year-old Yap Shing Xuen last October. The girl was found fatally stabbed multiple times in a toilet at their secondary school on the outskirts of the capital Kuala Lumpur.The boy, who was 14 at the time, has pleaded not guilty. If convicted, he could spend decades in prison.Police previously said they suspected social media…
ReutersThree days before his rescheduled exam, 17-year-old Kahaan Patel took his lifeThree days before he was due to sit India’s rescheduled medical entrance examination, 17-year-old Kahaan Patel jumped from the sixth floor of his family’s apartment building in the western city of Ahmedabad.When his family entered his bedroom after his death in the early hours of 18 June, it looked as though he might return at any moment.His laptop was still open. Text books, notebooks, pens and markers lay scattered across his bed and study table. He was wearing his headphones when he jumped. In one corner stood his electric…
ReutersTrump speaks to reporters on Air Force One on SundayUS President Donald Trump has said new talks with Iran will begin on Monday, after calling off what he said would have been “massive” strikes on the country.”They knew the extent of the attack because they saw it forming,” he told reporters on board Air Force One on Sunday. “We’re talking to them in the form of a negotiation. It begins tomorrow afternoon.”In an earlier post on Truth Social, Trump said he had been asked by Iran and US allies in the Middle East to “hold off” on any attack as…
Getty ImagesAriana Grande is to withdraw from public appearances and will no longer star in an upcoming musical production in London when she ends her Eternal Sunshine tour next month.A representative for the US singer, 33, told People magazine that she “will be taking a step back from visibility” when the tour ends, after her appearances led to “endless, ongoing public scrutiny”.The company behind a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George, due to play at the Barbican in 2027, confirmed that she would no longer be part of the production and had its “complete understanding and…
NBC via Getty ImagesOn Friday, exactly six months after Nancy Guthrie was abducted, police released two ransom notes in the hope that they would help identify her kidnappers. Guthrie, the mother of US news presenter Savannah Guthrie, was 84 when she went missing from her Arizona home in January.Her disappearance sparked a months-long investigation which has turned up few apparent leads and fewer suspects.So how could Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapper, or kidnappers, be caught from these brief ransom notes?While the language in the notes might seem straightforward, police said the writer’s “distinct linguistic characteristics” may be recognisable.”There are a number of…
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