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Ethiopia declares state of emergency in Amhara after militia clashes

August 5, 2023

Ethiopia’s Council of Ministers is declaring a state of emergency in the country’s Amhara region after authorities pleaded for help as clashes intensify there between regional forces and the military. The prime minister’s office announced the decision on Friday after the region’s leader said regular law enforcement was no longer...

Trump pleads not guilty to federal charges related to 2020 election

August 5, 2023

Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to trying to overturn the results of his 2020 election loss, answering for the first time to federal charges that accuse him of orchestrating a brazen and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to block the peaceful transfer of presidential power. Trump appeared before a magistrate...

Pakistan’s Assembly will be dissolved on Aug 9: PM Shehbaz Sharif

August 5, 2023

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that the National Assembly would be dissolved on August 9, three days before the term of the lower house of Parliament is scheduled to end, a move which will prompt general elections in the country within 90 days. Sharif said this on Thursday...

Russia pitched N Korea to boost the sale of munitions to Moscow, says White House

August 5, 2023

The White House on Thursday said US intelligence officials have determined that Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke last week to North Korean officials during a visit to Pyongyang about increasing the sale of munitions to Moscow for its war in Ukraine. Shoigu made the pitch during his visit to...

Russia accuses Ukraine of attacking Black Sea base and Crimea with drones

August 5, 2023

Russia accused Ukraine early on Friday of attacking its Black Sea navy base in the port of Novorossiysk with sea drones. The attack on Novorossiysk is the first time a commercial Russian port has been targeted in the 18-month war. The city is a major port on the Black Sea...

Flash Flood: 4 dead, 9 missing on route to Kedarnath

August 5, 2023

Four people died and nine were missing after a flash flood in a rainfed waterfall swept away three shops near Daat Puliya near Gaurikund on the way to Kedarnath, officials said on Friday. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami reached the Disaster Control room at the secretariat here to take stock...

Mamata Banerjee leads charge against funding halt on 100-day job plan

August 5, 2023

The Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, upping the ante against the Narendra Modi Government at the Centre, has announced that the party activists would hold demonstrations in all 341 blocks in the State on August 6 to protest against the Centre’s pause on the release of funds under several rural...

Car with Punjab plates used in Nuh riots

August 5, 2023

A vehicle that was used in the violence in Nuh district, Haryana has been traced to the Mansa district of Punjab. The car was registered under a Punjab number to one Fauji Nirmal Singh, a resident of Dallewal village. Singh had reportedly sold the vehicle after an accident over a...

Home Minister Vij ‘upset’, raises questions over handling of law and order in Nuh

August 5, 2023

Due to the riots in Haryana’s Nuh district, there is still extreme tension in many districts and the police department is in a state of constant churn in a bid to quickly restore peace as well as ensure law and order. But the question which continues to surface is whether...

After violence, 200 arrested; Nuh police chief on leave during riots transferred

August 5, 2023

The police chief in Nuh, where communal clashes broke out on Monday during a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) rally, has been transferred to the state's Bhiwani district, around 160 km away. IPS officer Narendra Bijarniya who headed the police force between February 2020 and October 2021, served as acting Superintendent...

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