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Illustration image, a young guy checks his mobile phone by the river Ganges in Prayagraj. Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP  

 

Political situation in India 

Concerns about Indian media - raid on Modi-critical site  

 

Indian police have carried out a raid against the news site NewsClick and several of its journalists' homes, AP writes. Among other things, phones and computers have been confiscated and writers have been interrogated.  

 

The news site is one of the few outlets to publish criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government, and critics see the crackdown as an attack on the few remaining independent media outlets in the country.  

 

The government has accused NewsClick of pursuing an "anti-Indian agenda". The accusations stem from an article in the New York Times where it was reported that the site received funds from an American millionaire who has also funded Chinese propaganda. NewsClick has denied the allegations.  

 

NHS chief Amanda Pritchard, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Steve Barclay. Phil Noble / AP  

 

The trans rights debate  

British women's departments to port trans women 

 

Trans women in the UK will be ported out of hospital women's wards, according to a proposal Health Secretary Stephen Barclay will present at the Tory conference. 

 

"We need a common sense approach to gender and equality within the NHS," Barclay told The Telegraph.  

 

At the same time, a source tells the newspaper that the government has "had enough of" the agenda that has been pushed in recent years, and that the healthcare system "talks about pregnant people instead of women".  

 

In conjunction with the party conference, Barclay will also announce that the NHS will receive a major boost in staff.  

 

 

A tourist takes a selfie in central Paris. Michel Euler / AP  

 

Bedbugs in Paris  

Minister: "No reason to panic about bed bugs" 

 

Bedbugs are ravaging Paris and the country's health minister Aurélien Rousseau is urging the population to calm down.  

 

There is "no reason to panic" and France has not been "invaded by bedbugs", he says in an interview with France Inter.  

 

The insects have been seen in public transport in the French capital in recent weeks, causing concern among residents.  

 

Despite the reassuring words, Rousseau admits that "it is hell" for those affected by bedbugs.  

 

 

Demonstrators, waving PKK flags, protest against Turkey's president. Martin Meissner / Ap  

 

The PKK act in Ankara  

Turkish police raid PKK supporters - 90 arrested  

 

The police in Turkey have detained around 90 people in a nationwide operation, AFP reports. Those arrested are suspected of links to the PKK, a terrorist movement. The arrests were made in 18 different provinces.  

 

The police operation was carried out on Monday, a day after the bombing of the Ministry of Interior in the capital, Ankara. The PKK has claimed responsibility.  

 

As a response to the PKK attack, Turkey has also carried out airstrikes against suspected PKK targets in northern Iraq.  

 

The community of Nuuk in Greenland Linkedin/TT  

 

The "spiral scandal" in Greenland  

Women demand compensation for Danish spiral scandal  

 

67 women from Greenland demand compensation from the Danish state for a forced "spiral campaign" in the 1960s. At least 4,500 women and girls received IUDs between 1960 and 1991 to reduce the birth rate among the indigenous population of the island.  

 

The women want 300,000 Danish kroner each, corresponding to roughly 465,000 Swedish kronor, according to Danmarks Radio.  

 

Naja Lyberth, a psychologist and one of the initiators of the demand, had an IUD inserted when she was 13 years old, without her parents' consent or knowledge. She says that many of the victims are approaching 80 years of age and do not want to wait for the results of the investigation that has been appointed. 

 

- We want to see action now, she says according to the BBC.  

 

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