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| | | Hello. Officials say two paramedics are among the nine people killed by Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon, and Hezbollah said it fired rockets into northern Israel. Meanwhile, Delhi correspondent Geeta Pandey explores how a new start-up for busy shoppers has stirred up suggestions that middle-class Indians are too entitled. | | | | | | |
| TOP OF THE AGENDA | | Israeli strikes kill nine in Lebanon as Hezbollah fires rockets across border | | |  | | Smoke billows from the Nabatieh area in southern Lebanon following an Israeli strike on Wednesday. Credit: Reuters. | | Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon came as a second day of talks got under way in Washington, looking at ways to shore up a ceasefire deal. Meanwhile, Israel's military said it had intercepted a drone and two projectiles that crossed the border. Hezbollah said it had targeted a gathering of Israeli troops. In Lebanon, the health ministry said the dead included two paramedics whose ambulance was hit in a strike in the southern Chehour area. A car was also struck just south of Beirut. | | | | | | | | |
| Deadly Iran attack on Kuwait airport 'criminal', official says | | | | One person was killed and more than 60 injured in Iranian drone strikes on Kuwait's international airport, according to local officials. Kuwait's defence ministry spokesman called Wednesday's attack "criminal Iranian aggression", while the foreign ministry said diplomatic missions had been damaged. Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps said the attack was in response to US strikes, and say they also hit American bases in the Gulf. | | | | | | | | |
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| | | Delhi shopper start-up stirs debate |  | | CarryMen are told to be courteous at all times and treat customers like family. Credit: BBC | | Imagine if someone could carry your bags, or push your toddler's pram, while you shop. This is exactly what a new start-up is offering busy shoppers in the Indian capital, Delhi. | | | | | | Geeta Pandey, correspondent | | | | | | Launched in April, CarryMen offers male and female assistants to shoppers in Lajpat Nagar market for up to four hours - starting at 79 rupees ($0.83; £0.62) for 30 minutes. An hour costs 149 rupees.
The service has gone down well with customers who say these CarryMen are making their lives a lot easier.
But it has also started a debate over whether the Indian middle class is too entitled and whether these assistants are just glorified "coolies" in exploitative jobs. | | | | | | |
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