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An American-Turkish dual national was killed by Israeli troops while participating in a protest against settlement expansion in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Friday (Sep 6), according to Palestinian media reports.

A 20-year-old Pakistani man living in Canada was arrested and charged with planning an attack at a Jewish Centre in New York City (NYC) in support of the Islamic State (ISIS), the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Friday (Sept 6).

Sri Lanka is gearing up for the first phase of voting in the Presidential Elections, with over 700,000 state sector employees scheduled to cast their postal ballots this week. With 38 candidates in the fray, the front runners would be hoping to get a head start for the elections scheduled on September 21st with tomorrow’s commencement of Postal voting. According to the Election Commission in Sri Lanka, voters can mark their postal votes at District Secretariats and the offices of the Election Commission on 4th September 2024.

The US and Indonesia on Friday concluded two-week-long joint military exercises that included the recapture of remote islands, with Japan, South Korea and other countries taking part to promote stability in the South China Sea.

Israeli forces pulled out of the Palestinian city of Jenin on Friday, leaving a mass of damaged buildings and infrastructure, following one of the biggest security operations in the occupied West Bank in months.

India's Congress party on Friday (September 6) accused SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch of receiving rental income from a company linked to Wockhardt Limited, a firm under investigation by SEBI for insider trading and other violations.

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British tech tycoon Mike Lynch died of suffocation after running out of oxygen, an investigative source said, citing initial examinations carried out on Saturday after his body was recovered from the family yacht that sank off Sicily's coast last month.

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Lee Tae Geun, the former member of the K-pop group Naughty Boys Club, passed away on Sep. 4 after a three-year battle with an illness that was reportedly triggered by the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.

A 20-year-old Pakistani man living in Canada was arrested and charged with planning an attack at a Jewish Centre in New York City (NYC) in support of the Islamic State (ISIS), the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Friday (Sept 6).

Selena Gomez, 32, has reached the billionaire status. The Rare Beauty founder has an estimated net worth of $1.3 billion, which makes her one of the country's youngest female billionaires, according to Bloomberg.

Frances Tiafoe blamed his heartbreaking five-set US Open semi-final defeat to Taylor Fritz on cramping after his "body shut down". Tiafoe twice led in the match but the final set lasted just 27 minutes in which he was broken three times and collected just nine points.

Lebanon's health ministry said three emergency personnel were killed on Saturday and two others wounded in an Israeli attack on a civil defence team putting out fires in south Lebanon.

Amsterdam's famous Rijksmuseum had to be shut down Saturday (Sep 7) after climate protesters linked with the Extinction Rebellion (XR) group raided the art gallery.

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A Kolkata court on Friday rebuked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after the officer in charge of investigating the rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor failed to attend an important hearing of Sanjay Roy, the main suspect in the case at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

Thousands of people demonstrated across France on Saturday against Emmanuel Macron's decision to pick centre-right politician Michel Barnier as prime minister, with leftist parties accusing the president of ignoring election results.

Super Typhoon Yagi made landfall in Vietnam on Saturday (Sep 7), uprooting thousands of trees and sweeping ships and boats out to sea, killing at least four people and injuring 78 others.