SOUTH KOREA: Authorities suspended the licences of two senior doctors today for allegedly inciting strikes by thousands of their junior colleagues that have disrupted hospital operations.

The suspensions are the government’s first punitive steps against physicians after trainee doctors walked off the job last month to protest against the government’s plan to sharply increase medical school admissions.

PAKISTAN: Air strikes targeted multiple suspected hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban inside neighbouring Afghanistan early today, killing at least eight people and drawing return fire from the Afghan Taliban.