Abortion doctor is to be deported
A back-street abortionist is to be deported from Dubai and his clinic closed after one of his patients was admitted to Rashid Hospital in a critical condition.
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The Indian medical specialist who has been practising in Dubai for two years, admitted to medical authorities that he charged a young Indian woman Dh 500 for an illegal abortion which went wrong.
The woman, in her late twenties, was admitted to hospital in a critical condition only hours after her immediate discharge from the clinic.
Iranian demonstrators burn British Embassy
The British Embassy in Teheran was smouldering after demonstrators set fire to it during a day of violence in the city.
An Embassy spokesman said no staff were hurt in the attack, one of dozens of arson assaults by rioters protesting against the Shah’s regime. About 50 people from a large crowd of demonstrators on the broad Ferdowsi Avenue in central Teheran launched the attack, shouting slogans against the Shah as others hurled stones at the windows.
Three die as Sikhs battle with police
Three people died and at least 100 were injured as Sikh extremists with swords, staves, rocks and torches fought police through the streets of New Delhi.
Authorities imposed a 16-hour curfew on parts of the Indian capital after quelling the daylong disturbances with rifle fire and hundreds of teargas shells.
The disturbances stemmed from a feud between turban-wearing Sikhs and the Nirankaris, a breakway group branded by Sikhs as renegades and blasphemous Shikhs, especially extremist members of a group known as the Akalis.
Russians disqualified
Four Russian athletes, including a gold and silver medallist, and a Bulgarian have been disqualified from last September's European Athletic Championships after failing drug tests.
Arthur Gold, British President of the European Athletic Association, said-urine samples taken on the five after the championships in Prague showed traces of anabolic steroids, the banned muscle-building drug.
