Top 10 world news: Third arrest made in Taylor Swift concert terror plot; Russia-Ukraine war, and more

An Iraqi national has been arrested in Austria in connection with a foiled terror plot targeting Taylor Swift concerts. The teenager is the third person to be detained in this case, believed to be linked to the 19-year-old primary suspect, an Austrian national with North Macedonian roots. In other news, as Russia battled it out with the Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region, Russia’s Lipetsk too came under an intense assault by Ukrainian drones on Thursday (Aug 8).

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An Iraqi national has been arrested in Austria in connection with a foiled terror plot targeting Taylor Swift concerts. The teenager is the third person to be detained in this case, believed to be linked to the 19-year-old primary suspect, an Austrian national with North Macedonian roots.

As Russia battled it out with the Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region, Russia’s Lipetsk too came under an intense assault by Ukrainian drones on Thursday (Aug 8). Ukrainian forces targeted a key military airfield there, roughly 300km deep inside the Russian territory, said Ukraine’s General Staff of Command.

Africa is standing at the cusp of witnessing a massivempox outbreak, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to convene an urgent meeting to decide whether it constitutes a Public Health Emergency of international concern.

A 55-year-old woman in the United Kingdom has been detained for sharing a social media post with false details about the suspect in the Southport murders.

The Gujarat General Administration Department (GAD) has called for a re-evaluation of the medical certificates for five IAS officers after a fraud case involving trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar in Maharashtra came to light.

Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat has demanded that thefundamental rights of athletes to their physical integrity be upheldas details of the petition filed were revealed exclusively toWION on Friday (Aug9).

Three Columbia University deans who sent 'antisemitic' texts while attending an event on Jews in the campus have resigned, in a scandal that some are calling 'textgate'.

The special cell of Delhi police arrested a wanted ISIS terrorist identified asRizwan Abdul Haji Ali, 35,who is an alleged member of the Pune module from the Delhi-Faridabad borderon Thursday (Aug 8) evening.

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