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At least 27 bodies wash up on Libyan shore after shipwreck
Moscow, Dec 26: At least 27 migrants drowned off the western Libyan coast while trying to reach Europe, the Libyan Red Crescent said on Sunday, adding three people were rescued.
Seventeen bodies, including that of a baby, washed up on a…
Earthquake of scale 6 rattles Greece’s Crete island
Moscow, Dec 26 A strong, magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit on Sunday east of the Greek island of Crete, the European Mediterranean Seismological Center said.
The shallow quake struck some 170 kilometers (105 miles) away from the island's main…
India, SA cricket teams observe moment of silence in honor of Desmond Tutu
Centurion, Dec 26: The Indian and South African cricket teams observed a moment of silence ahead of the first Test in honour of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who died at the age of 90 on Sunday. South African players also wore black…
Nathula: Army rescues 275 tourist vehicles stranded in snowfall
Gangtok, Dec 25 (UNI) 'Due to heavy snowfall in Nathula, Tsogmu Lake and area around, the tourists
got stranded, there are 275+ vehicles of tourists there, but they are enjoying the snow,' said Station House Officer Thinley Rabden.…
Queen Elizabeth pays tribute to Prince Philip in Christmas speech
Moscow, Dec 25: Queen Elizabeth II spoke on Saturday about the pain of having "one familiar laugh missing," in her first Christmas address to the nation since the passing of Prince Philip at the age of 99.
The British monarch delivered the…
West Bank clashes: Over 300 Palestinians hurt in clashes with Israeli soldiers
Gaza, Dec 26: The number of Palestinians injured on Saturday in clashes with Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank has surpassed 300, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
Nineteen people were hit by live fire, 91 by rubber…
France: Highest daily Covid- cases reported in 2 days
Paris, Dec 26: The French sanitary authority reported 104,611 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, the highest daily toll seen in the country since the pandemic began.
France said daily infections surpassed 94,100 on Friday and 58,500 on…
Iran closes land borders amid Omicron concerns
Tehran, Dec 26: Iran is closing its land borders with the neighboring countries amid a rapid spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Rohollah Latifi, the spokesman for Iran's Customs, said.
"According to the decision of the…
Apple workers threaten strike on Christmas Eve
Washington, Dec 24: Employees of the US tech giant Apple demanding better working conditions, say they are planning to stage a walkout on Friday, the Christmas Eve.
"Tomorrow, December 24th, 2021, Apple workers are staging a…
Afghan ambassador in Dushanbe refuses to return $800,000 sent by Ghani gov’t
Dushanbe, Dec 24: The Afghan Embassy in Dushanbe has denied the Taliban (under UN sanctions for terrorism) the return of $800,000 that were sent from Kabul in the last days of the presidency of Ashraf Ghani, Afghan Ambassador Muhammad Zahir…
China: US claims of forced labor in Xinjiang ‘fabricated’
Beijing, Dec 24: China's legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC), on Friday pushed back against the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act signed by US President Joe Biden into law, calling all accusations contained in the legislation…
Kabul: Taliban deny any agreement with Turkey, Qatar on Kabul airport
Kabul, Dec 26: The Taliban (under UN sanctions for terrorism) denied that a deal had been reached with Qatar and Turkey that would allow the two to jointly run airports in Kabul and other Afghan cities.
The Turkish state news agency…
Iran accuses UK of meddling on ballistic missile test
Tehran, Dec 25: The latest ballistic missile test by Iran did not violate the UN Security Council on the 2015 nuclear deal, and the United Kingdom's claims to the contrary represent an attempt to meddle in the Islamic republic's internal…
US Senators push for shelving Germany’s Nord Stream 2 Russian gas project
Washington, Dec 25: US senators pushed President Joe Biden to talk to the new German government about putting Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline on ice, in an article published Friday by The Washington Post.
Democrat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen…
UK constructing naval base for Ukraine in Ochakiv: Sources
London, Dec 24: UK experts are constructing a naval base for Ukraine in the southern port city of Ochakiv, while their safety is ensured by officers of a private military company, Vasily Prozorov, a former lieutenant colonel of the Security…
India go down 1-0 to Bangladesh in SAFF football
Dhaka, Dec 22 (UNI) India went down to hosts Bangladesh by a solitary goal in the final of the
SAFF U-19 Women’s Championship at the Bir Shreshtha Shaheed Shipahi Mostafa Kamal Stadium here on Wednesday.
The only goal in the game came in…
Terror and trade can’t go together: Amarinder
Chandigarh, Dec 22: Former Punjab chief minister and Punjab Lok Congress supremo Capt Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said that terror and trade cannot go hand-in-hand and there was no point in starting business and trade with Pakistan as long…
Putin to hold annual press conference in Moscow on Thursday
Moscow, Dec 23 (Sputnik) Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold an annual end-of-year press conference on Thursday
to sum up the results of 2021 and answer questions from journalists.
The event is expected to gather over 500…
Maldives rolls red carpet for Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina
Male (Maldives), Dec 22 (UNI-by Mir Afroz Zaman) Maldives rolled out the red carpet to welcome Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as she arrived here today on her maiden six-day bilateral visit at the invitation of the county's…
Russia, Cuba hold political consultations
Buenos Aires, Dec 22: Russia and Cuba held political consultations at the foreign ministerial level and discussed various issues on the international agenda, the Cuban Foreign Ministry said in a statement
"During the meeting, which was…
