Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has been sworn in as the chief adviser of Bangladesh’s interim government, following the end of former PM Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule after a student-led uprising. In other news, India clinched a bronze medal in men’s hockey at the Paris 2024 Olympics, defeating Spain 2-1. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has apologised for the October 7 Hamas attack after months of resistance. Ukraine acknowledged its raid into Russia’s Kursk region, intensifying border conflict. In the UK, two men were sentenced for violent disorder during anti-Muslim riots following a tragic knife attack. Finally, Iraq’s proposed bill to lower the marriage age to nine for girls has sparked outrage over women’s rights.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus was sworn into office on Thursday (August 8) to lead Bangladesh’s interim government as its chief adviser, days after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of South Asian country’s founding father Mujibur Rahman.
India have added one more medal to their hockey Olympics cabinet after they beat Spain 2-1 in men’s hockey on Thursday (Aug 8). The Indian men’s team in the bronze medal match beat Spain to claim their 13th medal in the Olympics with the latest success in Paris.
After resisting for months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has finally tendered an apology to his country for the deadly October 7 terror attacks that left 1,198 people dead and saw Hamas taking more than 250 people hostage.
Ukraine on Thursday (Aug 8) publicly acknowledged for the first time its attack on Russia’s Kursk region, as the fighting on the Russian border region entered its third day. Earlier media reports claimed Ukrainian forces were targeting a village 20 km deep inside the Russian territory. Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, justified the attack by saying that “the root cause of any escalation” was “unequivocal aggression” shown by Russia.
In the United Kingdom, two men were sentenced to prison on Thursday (Aug 8), for their involvement in violent disorder during anti-Muslim riots in northwest England. The riots were triggered after the tragic killing of three girls, aged six, seven, and nine — in a knife attack on July 29 at a Taylor Swift theme dance class in northern England. Five other children were also critically wounded in the tragic attack.
Iraq is set to introduce a bill that may cut down the age of marriage to nine for girls and 15 for boys. Right advocates have raised an alarm that the bill introduced in the Iraqi parliament would roll back women’s rights in an already patriarchal society and increase the prevalence of underage marriages in the country.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday (August 8) that it does not have any update on former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s next course of action. The ousted former Bangladesh prime minister has been stationed in Hindon airbase outside New Delhi since August 5, when she left her country after a mob of protesters began storming the Prime Minister’s residence in Dhaka.
Austria authorities have reportedly found Islamic State group and al Qaeda material at the house of the second and final suspect in connection with a foiled terror plot targeting US singer Taylor Swift’s shows. The country’s Interior Minister, Gerhard Karner, said Thursday (Aug 8) that no other suspects were being pursued by the police.
Meta and Google are being accused of conducting a covert advertising campaign that targeted teenagers on YouTube with Instagram ads, in violation of Google’s own policies. The ad campaign, reported by the Financial Times, has raised serious concerns about the companies’ practices and their adherence to advertising regulations.
A female Russian chess player was detained and could face a lifetime ban and jail time after allegedly trying to poison a rival during a tournament, a clandestine act caught on security camera.
