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A preliminary probe into the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner near Kazakhstan, suggests that a bird collision might have played a role in the emergency which led to the crash in which at least 35 people are feared dead, Reuters reported…
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Six passengers survived while dozens were feared dead after a plane carrying over 70 people crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan, reports said on Wednesday, citing Kazakh Emergencies Ministry. The plane reportedly crashed near the…
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How do we feel the effects of climate change in our everyday lives? It could be in the form of the intense heat wave that swept through Delhi in the summer. On 29 May, the daytime temperature read 52.3 degrees Celsius on one of the city’s…
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Pakistan launched rare airstrikes on Tuesday inside Afghanistan’s Paktika province, targeting several suspected hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban, also known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP. The strikes reportedly hit a training…
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President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop Trump from pushing forward their executions.…
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Japanese foreign minister Takeshi Iwaya was due in Beijing on Wednesday for talks with counterpart Wang Yi and other top officials as Tokyo acknowledged “challenges and concerns” in ties. The visit is Iwaya’s first to China since becoming…
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A “massive missile attack” pummelled Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv, Mayor Igor Terekhov said on Wednesday morning. “Kharkiv is under a massive missile attack. A series of explosions were heard in the city and there are still…
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Iran has lifted the ban on Meta's messaging platform WhatsApp and Google Play, a first step to scale back internet restrictions, Reuters quoted the Iranian state media on Tuesday. Tehran has some of the strictest internet controls in the…
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The Eiffel Tower in Paris was evacuated on Tuesday morning after a fire broke out in one of its elevator shafts between the first and second floors, euronews reported. Around 1,200 tourists were evacuated following reports of the blaze,…
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) held historic hearings from 2 to 13 December addressing States’ obligations under international law to combat climate change, a process spearheaded by small island nations facing existential threats.…
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