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UAE: Abu Dhabi resident’s severe headache reveals rare fatal condition; life saved with 8-hour complex surgery

The 23-year-old was suffering from intracerebral bleeding – an unusual autoimmune condition, making the medical case a rare phenomenon A severe headache in a 23-year-old Abu Dhabi resident turned out to be massive intracerebral bleeding – a life-threatening complication of Evans Syndrome – an unusual autoimmune condition, making the medical case a rare phenomenon. Instead…

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UAE students under pressure after India closes international centres for medical exam

For the last two years, Sherin Shafeeq’s daughter has been preparing for a medical entrance exam in India by attending coaching classes, writing papers, and reviewing hours of material. As she readies to write the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET-UG) this year, she has something else to worry about- she has to fly…

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India’s top court scraps electoral bonds, calls them ‘unconstitutional’

India’s Supreme Court on Thursday scrapped a seven year-old election funding system that allows individuals and companies to donate money to political parties anonymously and without any limits. The decision is seen as a setback for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, which has been the largest beneficiary of the system it introduced in…

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Pakistan: Shehbaz Sharif set to lead again as party seeks to get PPP to join cabinet

Officials in both PML-N and PPP said they had formed internal committees to discuss the modalities of government formation A political stalemate in Pakistan, after an inconclusive election, ended with Shehbaz Sharif chosen to lead the country again, while efforts were underway on Wednesday to get the second-largest party to join the government to ensure…

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