U.S. television host Larry King dies
Reuters, Washington :Larry King, who quizzed thousands of world leaders, politicians and entertainers for CNN and other news outlets in a career spanning more than six decades, has died at age 87, CNN reported...
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Ukraine nursing home fire leaves 15 dead
Xinhua :At least 15 people were killed and five others injured in a fire at a private nursing home in Kharkiv, Ukraine, authorities said.According to the press service of Ukrainian State Service for Emergencies,...
8 killed in Karnataka quarry blast
The Indian Express :At least eight people have been killed in an explosion at a stone mining quarry in Karnataka’s Shivamogga district, the police control room said.The possibility of subsequent explosions at the quarry...
Israeli strikes kill 4 civilians in Syria
AFP :Four civilians, including two children, were killed by Israeli strikes on the Syrian province of Hama at dawn on Friday, the Syrian state news agency Sana reported.Sana cited a Syrian military source as...
Distraught families of Sriwijaya Air victims visit Java Sea crash site
Reuters :Relatives of those killed in the Sriwijaya Air plane crash on Jan. 9 wept and threw red and white petals into the ocean on Friday after an Indonesian navy vessel took them to...
Pandemic raises Japan suicide rate after decade of decline
AFP :The number of people taking their own lives in Japan rose for the first time in over a decade last year, as the pandemic reversed years of progress combatting a stubbornly high suicide...
Children of Incan nobles found entombed in Peru after 500 years
Reuters :Tombs containing the remains of two children thought to have belonged to the Incan societal elite have been discovered by a group of experts in northern Peru in the boundaries of a 500-year-old...
Russia detains Navalny aides as protests go viral
BBC Online :Russian police have detained close aides of the jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, whose fans have flooded social media with calls to rally in support of him on Saturday.Moscow police say...
Biden will be the first president to use the new Air Force One
Khaleej Times :While US President Joe Biden is expected to bring in a raft of changes in his tenure, one of the most recognisable planes in the world that’s been in service since President...
Mongolian Prime Minister submits resignation after Covid-19 protests
Reuters :Mongolia’s Prime Minister Khurelsukh Ukhnaa submitted his resignation to parliament on Thursday after protests in the capital Ulaanbaatar over the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, the state news agency Montsame reported.Khurelsukh said...
3 killed in New York helicopter crash
Reuters :Three New York National Guard members were killed on Wednesday evening when a military helicopter they were in crashed in the town of Mendon, New York, while on a routine training mission, authorities...
Muslim Brothers say, New Egypt uprising ‘inevitable’
AFP :Hounded by Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi after briefly rising to power following the Arab Spring uprising, the Muslim Brotherhood sees a new revolution sweeping aside the current regime.“No injustice can last forever,”...