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# Mirren Gidda

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## Mirren Gidda


## Mirren Gidda


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* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Oct 5, 2017  
### [India is in the Grip of a Deadly Season of Fear and Loathing](https://time.com/4971027/india-is-in-the-grip-of-a-deadly-season-of-fear-and-loathing/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![A Russian border guard opens a gate into the Ukraine for the first trucks heading into the country from the Russian town of Donetsk, Rostov-on-Don region, Russia, Aug. 22, 2014.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1ae48231229b377/6986a082e53aba836c4d41d1/russia-ukraine-convoy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 22, 2014  
### [Ukraine Condemns Russian Convoy's Border Crossing](https://time.com/3158831/ukraine-russia-invasion/)  
But Moscow warns against interfering with the trucks' crossing  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Talks resume in Cairo, as fresh 3-day truce holds in Gaza](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc44ca42d5e0fb4fa/6986a007f983e73dd804f471/israel-gaza-tank.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 19, 2014  
### [Most Israeli Jews Say Gaza Offensive Was Justified](https://time.com/3144232/israeli-jews-poll-gaza-protective-edge/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Aug 19, 2014  
### [ISIS to U.S.: 'We Will Drown All of You in Blood'](https://time.com/3143745/isis-iraq-airstrikes-obama/)  
The militants are on the defensive following a series of successful U.S. airstrikes  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Aug 18, 2014  
### [Israeli Left Finds Itself Isolated After Gaza War](https://time.com/3116624/israel-left-challenges/)  
Polls show that most Israelis supported the launch of Operation Protective Edge  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Aug 14, 2014  
### [Cliff Richard's Home Searched in Relation to Sex Offense](https://time.com/3111103/cliff-richards-home-searched-sex-offense/)  
Police searched home in relation to an alleged historic sex offence  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![A Russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid for residents in rebel eastern Ukrainian regions moves along a road about 30 miles from Voronezh, Russia, Aug. 14, 2014.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8c2704ae48c9aa7b/69869f78361760527890d734/russia-aid-convoy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 14, 2014  
### [Russian Aid Convoy Keeps on Trucking Toward Ukraine](https://time.com/3110873/russia-aid-convoy-humanitarian-ukraine/)  
Kiev has now agreed to let the trucks enter Ukraine, but a full agreement on the crossing has yet to...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![An empty ward after patients left while others are scared to be admitted as they fear contracting the Ebola virus at the Kenema Government Hospital situated in the Eastern Province around 300 km, \(186 miles\), from Freetown in Kenema, Sierra Leone on Augu](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6092e37d2c412369/69869f26adae44029d5447b1/ebola-hospital.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 12, 2014  
### [Fear and Rumors Are Fueling Ebola's Spread](https://time.com/3092855/ebola-fear-rumors/)  
The epidemic shows no sign of stabilizing as the death toll continues to rise  
[HEALTH](/section/health/)
* ![Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar west of Mosul, take refuge at Dohuk province, Aug. 7, 2014.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt22f7a32c01200e89/69869ee0cd6848cf74095fb0/yazidi1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 8, 2014  
### [Everything You Need to Know About the Yazidis](https://time.com/3091932/yazidi-iraq-isis-obama/)  
Meet Iraq's secretive, persecuted sect under siege by militants from ISIS  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![RAF Search And Rescue Teams Practice Ahead Of The Royal Wedding](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta577779ada9f326e/69869eaa1eebf75b00372280/112185449.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 7, 2014  
### [Prince William's New Job? Medevac Helicopter Pilot](https://time.com/3088794/prince-william-medevac-pilot/)  
Prince William will begin training this fall and start work spring 2015  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
* ![Alex Salmond First Minister of Scotland talks the media after debating with Alistair Darling chairman of Better Together in a televised event from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland on August 5, 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt098634ea784d4a63/69869e88d0b6f22837305959/scotland-debate-11.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 6, 2014  
### [Pro-Independence Leader Falters in First Scottish Independence Debate](https://time.com/3085492/scottish-independence-debate/)  
Despite a confident opening, Scotland's First Minister floundered after failing to say what currency...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![A Palestinian man enters his destroyed home in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, August 5, 2014.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt44fd25b945c95e40/69869e743bc99969481a4cc8/israel-gaza-war-conflict5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 5, 2014  
### [No Easy Answers to Charges of War Crimes in Gaza](https://time.com/3082458/gaza-war-crimes-israel-palestine/)  
Experts on both sides say there were, but proving it will be hard and prosecuting even harder  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![GUINEA-HEALTH-EBOLA](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd48e37108a5e9590/69868897adae44813c5424e1/481844377.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 1, 2014  
### [UK not at Risk of Ebola Epidemic Despite Fear-Mongering](https://time.com/3069705/ebola-uk/)  
Though an infected person could technically arrive in the UK, the risk of onward transmission is exc...  
[HEALTH](/section/health/)
* ![A nurse from Liberia sprays preventives to disinfect the waiting area for visitors at the ELWA Hospital where a US doctor Kent Bradley is being quarantined in the hospitals isolation unit having contracted the Ebola virus, Monrovia, Liberia, 28 July 2014](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf0a6145b5edee46/69869dffadae4452205445f4/ebola-liberia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jul 31, 2014  
### [The Psychological Toll of Ebola in Sierra Leone](https://time.com/3063906/the-psychological-toll-of-ebola-in-sierra-leone/)  
Ane Bjoru Fjeldsaeter has been counselling staff, patients and their families at the Doctors Without...  
[HEALTH](/section/health/)
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Jul 30, 2014  
### [Detroit 8-Year-Old Shot Dead in His Sleep](https://time.com/3057635/detroit-8-year-old-shot-dead-in-his-sleep/)  
Jakari Pearson was killed in the early hours of Wednesday morning  
[U.S.](/section/us/)

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