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Seoul, Aug 7 (IANS) An online post threatening to bomb the airport in South Korea’s resort island of Jeju has triggered police searches at the premises and a hunt to track down the suspect, officials said Monday.The post was uploaded on an internet community at 9.07 p.m. Sunday, threatening to “launch a terrorist bombing attack on Jeju International Airport at 2 p.m. on Monday”, Yonhap News Agency quoted police officials as saying.The writer said a bomb had already been planted at the airport and threatened to stab people coming out of the building.After spotting the post, the police conducted a…

Sydney, Aug 7 (IANS) A teacher in Australia has been slapped with a disciplinary warning and training by a civil tribunal after she described Indians as “Uber drivers and Deliveroo people” during a business studies class in 2021.Acting upon a complaint by an Indian-origin former student, who attended James Anderson’s class, the New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal has also asked the Department of Education to make an official apology to the pupil, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. Anderson of Cronulla High School had played an educational YouTube video, which ran for over 20 minutes, for the class on…

Niamey, Aug 7 (IANS) Niger’s military junta has indefinitely shut the country’s airspace until further notice after a regional bloc warned it could use force if President Mohamed Bazoum was not reinstated, the media reported on Monday.According to flight tracking website Flightradar24, there were currently no aircraft in Niger’s skies, the BBC reported.Following a crisis meeting on August 4, military chiefs of the Ecowas regional trading bloc which comprises 15 West African countries, including Nigeria, Senegal, Togo and Ghana, announced that they had drawn up a detailed plan for the possible use of force if Bazoum was not reinstated by…

Islamabad, Aug 6 (IANS) After arrest of PTI chairman Imran Khan, Section 144 has been imposed in various districts of Pakistan’s Punjab province for seven days while several supporters of the former prime minister were arrested, local media reported.As per official notification, gatherings, public meetings, demonstrations, sit-ins and rallies are banned for seven days in Kasur, Jhelum, Mianwali, Mandi Bahauddin and Rawalpindi districts, ARY news reported.The PTI chief was arrested on Saturday from his Zaman Park residence after a district and sessions court sentenced him to three year jail in the Toshakhana case.After his arrest, the PTI had called for…

Sydney, Aug 6 (IANS) Six people were killed after fire engulfed a house in Russell Island in Australia’s Queensland state on Sunday, police said.The bodies were found at the scene of the house fire in an initial examination after the fire was extinguished on Sunday afternoon by Queensland Fire and Emergency Services, a statement issued by the Queensland Police.The missing residents include a 34-year-old man and five boys, Xinhua news agency reported quoting police.A port-mortem and scientific examination will take place to confirm the identities of the deceased.The police added that a 28-year-old woman and a 21-year-old woman were able…

Islamabad, Aug 6 (IANS) At least 15 people were killed and 50 injured as 10 bogies of Rawalpindi-bound Hazara Express derailed near Sahara Railway Station, 275 km near Karachi on Sunday, local media reported.Ten bogies had gone off track in the train crash, Railways Divisional Superintendent Sukkur Mahmoodur Rahman was quoted as saying by Geo TV.The injured were shifted to the People’s Medical Hospital in Nawabshah.Rescue efforts are underway to pull out passengers from the affected bogies. A train is arriving at the site of the incident from the Loco Shed Rohri. It will take at least three hours to…

Canberra, Aug 6 (IANS) Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has declared that the referendum on the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament will go ahead this year.In a recent speech at the Garma Festival in the Northern Territory (NT), Albanese said there was no guarantee of success for the referendum, but rejected calls to put it off, Xinhua news agency reported.The referendum will ask Australians to vote yes or no on altering the nation’s constitution to establish the voice, which would advise federal politicians on all matters relating to Indigenous Australians, and formally recognize Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as…

Washington, Aug 6 (IANS) Three people were killed and two others wounded in a shooting in Southeast Washington D.C., police said.As per Pamela A. Smith, acting police chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, officers responded to gunshots at around 8 p.m. (0000 GMT Sunday) in the 1600 block of Good Hope Road, Southeast. They found five victims — four males and one female. Two males and a female were pronounced dead on the scene. The other two males were taken to local area hospitals, with their conditions unknown.”Let me be clear: This gun violence has to stop. It is incredibly…

Dhaka, Aug 6 (IANS) Bangladesh reported 10 more deaths and 2,495 dengue cases in the past 24 hours, pushing the death toll to 303 and the total number of infections to 63,968, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said.The South Asian country experienced its highest spike in dengue cases last month, with 43,854 new infections and 204 deaths, Xinhua news agency reported quoting the DGHS.The June-September monsoon period is the season of dengue fever in Bangladesh, which is considered a high-risk nation prone to mosquito-borne diseases.–IANSint/svn

New York, Aug 6 (IANS) The Consulate General of India in Chicago has said that it has made contact with the Hyderabad woman found starving on the streets of the US last week, and has offered to fly her home.Syeda Lulu Minhaj Zaidi, 37, who came to the US two years ago to pursue a masters’ degree, was found “depressed” and starving on the roads of Chicago last week.”Happy that we could contact Ms Syeda Zaidi & offered help, including medical assistance & travel to India. She is fit & spoken to her mother in India,” the Consulate General of…