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According to a statement released by Victoria Police, emergency services were called after a number of shots were fired at a man walking along a street on Friday at about 11:40 p.m. local time, Xinhua news agency reported.The man sustained life-threatening injuries and later died in hospital, said the police, adding that detectives are still working to determine the circumstances of the incident, however, at this early stage the incident appears to be targeted.–IANSint/sha

“The date has not been set yet,” he told reporters in a live broadcast on Turkish television after attending a religious event in Istanbul on Friday, Xinhua news agency reported.”My Foreign Minister and head of intelligence are holding talks. Within the framework of these talks, I hope that this visit will take place in August,” he added.Turkey, which has good relations with both Kiev and Moscow, is working to resurrect a deal that aims to facilitate the export of Ukrainian grain from Black Sea ports and the export of Russian food and fertilisers.Russia and Ukraine signed separately with Turkey and…

Hundreds of asylum seekers were seen sleeping on the sidewalk outside the Roosevelt Hotel, the city’s migrant intake centre, since last week, before the area was cleared on Thursday, Xinhua news agency reported.An average of about 500 asylum seekers are coming to the city per day, according to a report by documentedny.com on Friday, citing city officials.”We continue to respond to the asylum seekers… even as our city is stretched to its breaking point,” said Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom at a briefing on Wednesday.More than 95,000 asylum seekers have arrived in New York since last…

The relevant document has been published on Russia’s official legal information portal, Xinhua news agency reported.With the new amendments, all men aged 18-30 will be subject to compulsory military service starting from January 1, 2024.The Russian leader signed another law Friday to ban conscripts from leaving Russia as soon as they receive their draft notice from the enlistment office.–IANSint/sha

Once implemented, the legislators will become the highest-earning MLAs in the country with a monthly salary and allowances of Rs 2.88 lakh.Presently, the MLAs of Telangana get a maximum amount of Rs 2.50 lakh per month.In the budget session of the Assembly, the legislators from both sides — ruling and opposition — unanimously passed the proposal for a salary hike. On the basis of this proposal, a special committee of five MLAs was constituted, which has now submitted its report to the Speaker.The committee was headed by senior BJP MLA Ramchandra Chandravanshi, while the other four members were Congress’s Pradeep…

FAO said wheat prices were 1.6 per cent higher in July, their first increase since October 2022, and rice prices also surged in July, rising by 2.8 per cent to reach their highest level since September 2011, Xinhua news agency reported.Still, the overall FAO sub-index for grains and cereals slipped slightly in July, falling 0.5 per cent despite the increase in quotations for wheat and rice.The sub-index for grains and cereals is the largest component in FAO’s broad Food Price Index, which was up 1.3 per cent in July compared to the previous month.The index has only climbed in two…

The quake happened at 18:48 p.m. Jakarta time, with its epicentre being 117 km southeast of Bolaang Mongondow Timur (East Bolaang Mongondow) district and a depth of 10 km under the seabed, Xinhua news agency reported, citing the geophysics agency.The earthquake did not have the potential to trigger giant waves, it said.–IANSint/sha

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi in a statement on Friday said that “following repeated requests”, the agency’s expert team was given “unimpeded access” on Thursday afternoon to the rooftops of Unit 3 and Unit 4 reactor buildings at the Zaporizhzhia plant in Ukraine and “could also clearly view the rooftops of the turbine halls”.Grossi said the expert team would continue its requests to visit the roofs of the other four reactor units at the facility.On July 23, the IAEA experts stationed at the Zaporizhzhia plant spotted “directional anti-personnel mines on the periphery of the site”.The IAEA chief said on Friday…

“Heights of duplicity! You abuse the judiciary when you get convicted, and when the same judiciary grants you bail, you say justice has prevailed,” the Chief Minister tweeted.The Assam Chief Minister has been critical of Rahul Gandhi since he parted ways with Congress and joined the BJP in 2015.Sarma launched a veiled attack on the Congress leader during the party’s much ambitious “Bharat Jodo” yatra also and said: “Our Country doesn’t need a ‘Bharat Jodo’ because we live in a united India in present times. India was divided only once in 1947 when a new country Pakistan was born and…

New York, Aug 5 (IANS) Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, makers of blockbuster anti-obesity drugs, have been sued in the US over stomach paralysis or gastroparesis. Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Lilly’s Mounjaro, given as once-weekly injections, helps lower diabetes as well aids in weight loss. However, the companies have been accused by 44-year-old Jaclyn Bjorklund, a Louisiana resident, of failing to warn patients of gastroparesis risk. While the labels for both medications note that they delay gastric emptying and can cause a variety of stomach problems — including nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal pain and constipation — they do not explicitly…