The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has called a nationwide strike of non-emergency workers for 24 hours to protest the rape and murder of a Kolkata medical college employee, Reuters reports . College staff told the agency that the 31-year-old woman had gone to sleep in a lecture hall at the medical college of RG Kar Hospital after working 20 hours straight. Her shift lasted a total of 36 hours. She was found dead on a blood-soaked mattress shortly after.

Kazakhstan puts its own economic interests first and is not going to unquestioningly comply with all the sanctions that are being introduced against Russia, its largest neighbor. This is reported by Bloomberg, citing Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Serik Zhumangarin. Kazakhstan will not “blindly follow sanctions” if they affect large Kazakh enterprises, Zhumangarin said. According to him, the sanctions, which were intended to cut off trade with Russia, have actually harmed Kazakhstan.

The world's largest American oilfield services company with French roots, SLB (formerly known as Schlumberger), continues to help Russia extract oil, despite its promises to close business in the country after the start of the war in Ukraine, the Financial Times (FT) reports . Companies like SLB do the grunt work in the oil and gas industry: building roads, laying pipes, drilling wells, and helping pump crude oil.

For six months, a schoolgirl in Kazakhstan was kept in a sexir staff classmates. She was pumped with drugs, hunger and blackmail Kazakhstani media are discussing a loud story about a 16-year-old girl from Kyzylorda, who was held in slavery by her classmates for six months. The girl was tortured and forced to engage in sex work, and all the money received was taken to themselves.

The operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region of Russia is a "military way" to force Vladimir Putin to stop the war and start negotiations. This was stated by the adviser of the Ukrainian president's office Mykhailo Podolyak in a conversation with the British publication The Independent.

Missouri resident Lisa Janine Finley has been arrested in the United States for attempting to seize the Graceland estate that belonged to Elvis Presley. This was reported by The Associated Press, citing the US Department of Justice. Graceland itself, which is one of the most visited buildings in the United States, was inherited by Presley's granddaughters from the singer's late daughter Lisa Marie Presley in 2023.

She tried to fight them, helped to adopt the law against them, but in the end she left public policy In February 2021, 23-year-old Sabrina Havellyan, a municipal politician from Hallandale Beach, Florida, learned that her bare photos were being distributed in anonymous forums. Political opponents took her real photos and divided the girl with the help of neural networks. Sabrina tried to fight fakes, including lobbying a new bill. About whether she succeeded, in the material of the "cold".

A large-scale power outage occurred in Primorsky Krai. This was reported by the local publication Vladivostok1.ru. On the morning of August 16, according to the publication, more than two and a half thousand requests were received from residents of Primorsky Krai. In addition, there were interruptions in the Internet in the region. The publication writes that traffic lights are not working in Vladivostok, which is why ten-point traffic jams have formed in the city.

Since August 13, FBI agents have been conducting a search at the home of the host of the Russian Channel One Dmitry Simes in Rappahannock County, Virginia. This was reported by the local publication Rappahannock News. "The FBI conducted court-authorized law enforcement activity. We have no further comment as the case is ongoing," FBI spokeswoman Samantha Shero said.

Russia has begun sending conscripts en masse to the Kursk region, where the Russian army has been fighting against the Ukrainian Armed Forces since August 6. This was reported by the project "Go to the forest", which helps to avoid conscription. It is noted that complaints are received from relatives and conscripts themselves serving in different regions of Russia, including Moscow, the Moscow region, Belgorod and others.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces will try to maintain control over the captured territories in the Kursk region. The Reuters agency writes about the further actions of the Ukrainian military in Russia, citing military experts. Ukrainian military analyst Serhiy Zgurets suggested that Ukraine will seek to control a strip of Russian territory about 20 kilometers wide. The Ukrainian Armed Forces want to keep the lands between the cities of Rylsk, Korenevo, and Sudzha under their control.

Russian doctors will perform free plastic surgery on Kyrgyzstani Asel Nogoibaeva, whose face was mutilated by her ex-husband. Nogoibaeva herself told Kholod about this. According to her, the decision was made in Issyk-Kul during a consultation of Kyrgyz, Russian and Turkish doctors, where the First Lady of Kyrgyzstan Aigul Japarova also came. The doctors offered help to the woman and talked about the first stage of the operation. Nogoibaeva says that she decided to trust Russian doctors.

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree on indexing salaries of federal civil servants by 5.1%. The text of the decree was published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

American banks may block accounts if clients try to log into online accounts, transfer funds or pay for purchases while in Russia, RBC reports . According to the publication, banks calculate the user's location based on their IP address. Denis Primakov, head of the Sanctions Law and Compliance practice at the KIAP law firm, claims that banks can block accounts based on Order 14071 and the OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) clarifications from March 2022.

The Russian army's attacks on the Donetsk front have intensified despite Ukraine's invasion of the Kursk region. The Ukrainian armed forces are struggling to contain the onslaught of the Russian military, and cooks and mechanics have to be sent to the front, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) writes .