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WORLD NEWS
TUESDAY JANUARY 9 2024
Indian court
restores
gang rapists’
sentences
Russia attacks Ukrainian
targets with cruise missiles
R
I
USSIA
er
launched
barrage
of
anoth-
hypersonic
top
court
has
restored
life prison sentences for 11 Hin-
and cruise missiles against
du
Ukrainian
woman during deadly religious
targets,
striking
near the front lines in the east as well
four
civilians
who
raped
a
Muslim
The convicts must surrender to
country, ofcials said yesterday.
least
men
rioting two decades ago.
as in central and western parts of the
At
NDIA’S
the authorities within two weeks.
were
re-
The Hindu men were convicted
ported killed and at least 30 injured
in
in the barrage yesterday morning.
were released in 2022 after serving
Western
had
ofcials
previously
and
analysts
rape
and
murder.
They
14 years in prison.
The victim, who is now in her 40s,
was stockpiling its cruise missiles in
was pregnant when she was brutally
preparation for a strategy of winter
gang-raped in 2002 in western Guja-
bombardment, as bad weather keeps
rat state during rioting that marked
the 930-mile front line largely static
some of India’s worst religious vio-
after 22 months of war.
lence. More than 1,000 people, most-
Kremlin’s
last
that
of
Russia
Unlike
warned
2008
winter,
forces
when
targeted
the
ly Muslims, were killed.
Ukraine’s
Seven members of the woman’s
power grid, Russia is now aiming at
family,
Kyiv’s
say.
daughter, were killed during the riots.
But the barrages have repeatedly hit
The men were eligible for remission
civilian areas.
of their sentence under a policy that
defence
industry,
Yesterday’s
string
of
they
attacks
urban
struck
areas,
a
including
her
three-year-old
was in place at the time of their con-
including
victions.
At the time of their release,
housing and a shopping mall, across
ofcials in Gujarat, where Prime Min-
Ukraine.
ister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Ja-
In the south-eastern Dnipropetro-
nata Party holds power, had said the
vsk region, a woman died in a missile
convicts were granted remission be-
attack outside the city of Kryvyi Rih
cause they had completed more than
and 24 people were injured in a strike
on the town of Novomoskovsk.
In
Kryvyi
Rih
itself,
which
home
houses
and
town,
a
more
shopping
than
mall
20
were
damaged in the attack, said regional
governor Serhii Lysak.
by the federal government prohibits
Authorities in the Khmelnytskyi
south-
hansk region in Ukraine’s east, a Rus-
remission release for those convict-
ern city along the Dnipro River, two
sian warplane accidentally released
ed of certain crimes, including rape
least six explosions were heard dur-
people
a
and murder.
ing the morning missile attack.
strike on a residential district, said
said Leonid Pasechnik, head of the
regional governor Yurii Malashko.
region’s rebel government.
region
said
Kherson
juring one person, said mayor Ihor
Terekhov.
woman
a
rescued
rubble
of
building
gional
governor
people
died
as
at
from
later
Oleh
died,
In
ducted 131 artillery attacks on the
the country’s second-largest city, in-
A
two
Meanwhile, Russian troops con-
At least four missiles hit Kharkiv,
A revised policy adopted in 2014
PICTURE: UKRAINIAN EMERGENCY SERVICE/AP
is
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky’s
14 years in jail.
Homes damaged in a Russian missile attack near Kryvyi Rih in Ukraine yesterday
region,
killing
two
people
Zaporizhzhia,
were
a
major
injured
in
a
missile
Two people injured in an attack
bomb
on
the
town
ries
and injuring ve, according to gover-
said.
not cause injuries.
nor Oleksandr Prokudin.
Russian
Ukrainian
forces
have
military
made
said
Rubizhne,
a
high-explosive
Following
the
release
of
the
convicts, the victim had led a peti-
The bomb, an FAB-250 that car-
on January 2 died yesterday, ofcials
The
of
warhead,
did
tion with the supreme court, saying
“the en masse premature release of
the convicts... has shaken the con-
unsuc-
The incident comes six days af-
science of the society”.
the
Kherson and the surrounding re-
cessful efforts to advance during the
ter Russia accidentally dropped mu-
The 2002 riots have long haunt-
re-
gion have been consistently targeted
past day in several areas, including
nitions over the village of Petropav-
ed Mr Modi, who was Gujarat’s top
Syniehubov
since Russian forces withdrew from
around Lyman in the Kharkiv region
lovka
that
elected ofcial at the time, amid alle-
said. More people may be trapped,
the city to the eastern side of the Dni-
and in the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia
has come under repeated Ukrainian
in
the
Belgorod
region
gations that authorities allowed and
he said.
pro in the autumn of 2022.
regions. In the Russia-occupied Lu-
attack.
even encouraged the bloodshed.
Mr Modi has repeatedly denied
having
Six police killed in
roadside bomb at polio
immunisation clinic
S
IX police ofcers were killed
and
10
hurt
after
other
a
people
roadside
were
bomb
exploded near a van carrying
police
assigned
to
protect
workers
in a polio immunisation campaign in
north-western Pakistan.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
The
bombing
happened
in
the
after
authorities
which
came
launched
the
supreme
RIME Minister Sheikh Hasina
has
won
a
fourth
consecu-
tive term in Bangladesh, following an election that was
boycotted by opposition parties and
rst
marked by violent protests and inter-
anti-polio campaign of the new year.
national scrutiny.
The Pakistani Taliban, also known
Ms Hasina’s Awami League party
as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP),
won 222 seats out of 299, according
is a separate group but a close ally of
to the Election Commission, cement-
the Afghan Taliban, who seized pow-
ing
er in Afghanistan in August 2021 as
extending her 15-year rule that has
former Pakistani Taliban stronghold
US and Nato troops were in the nal
of Mamund in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
stages of their pullout from the coun-
province bordering Afghanistan, po-
try after 20 years of war.
lice ofcial Kashif Zulquar said.
P
hours
the
and
Hasina wins in
disputed poll
iban claimed responsibility for yesattack,
role
to prosecute him.
In a statement, the Pakistani Tal-
terday’s
any
court has said it found no evidence
Many
TTP
leaders
and
Parliament
and
made her one of the most dening
Officials and local residents offer funeral prayers for police officers who were killed
in a roadside bombing in Pakistan
PICTURE: ANWARULLAH KHAN/AP
and divisive leaders in the nation’s
has
itable, came amid low voter turnout
ghters
history.
The victory, widely seen as inev-
found
cers were in a critical condition in
istan
since
takeover,
the attack occurred and all the polio
The outbreak has been a blow to
at 41.8% in a severely contentious cli-
hospital.
which also emboldened the TTP to
workers are safe. Authorities said it
the nation’s efforts to eradicate the
mate that saw opposition members
carry out more attacks on security
will
disease, which can cause severe pa-
jailed ahead of the polls.
forces.
country.
are regularly marred by violence.
Islamic militants often target po-
has
strained
Pakistan’s
been
halted
continue
in
in
the
other
Pakistan
and
area
parts
where
of
the
Afghanistan
ten refuse to inoculate children.
ralysis in children.
are the only countries in the world
lio teams and police assigned to pro-
with the Taliban government, which
where polio remains endemic. Last
one case, raising hopes it was close
puts
tect them, claiming falsely that the
insists it does not allow TTP to use
year,
to
cases
fragile position, risks triggering po-
vaccination campaigns are a Western
its soil to launch attacks in Pakistan.
were detected in Pakistan, almost all
then
despite
litical turmoil and may test some of
in the north-west where parents of-
anti-polio efforts.
Mr Zulquar said the campaign
at
least
six
new
polio
cases
In
2021,
Analysts say the clampdown on
ties
conspiracy to sterilise children.
It
Taliban
Afghan-
in
have
the
in
majority
He said some of the wounded of-
Anti-polio campaigns in Pakistan
sanctuaries
a
Pakistan
eradicating
began
polio.
being
reported
Other
detected
only
political foes and stiing of dissent
Bangladesh’s
its diplomatic ties.
democracy
in
a