A passenger plane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday with 62 passengers and five crew on board, Kazakh authorities…
Category: 2. World
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Concerns mounting over new energy crisis in EU as Russian gas transit via Ukraine ends
As the agreement allowing Russian gas transit through Ukraine to Europe expires on Tuesday, concerns are mounting about potential energy price hikes and their impact on European public opinion regarding support for…
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South Korea court reinstates PM Han Duck-soo as acting president
South Korea’s constitutional court has dismissed the impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, reinstating him as the country’s acting president.
Han took over as acting leader last December when President Yoon Suk Yeol was suspended from…
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More than 260 Rohingya refugees arrive in Indonesia
More than 260 Rohingya refugees, including women and children, have arrived in Indonesia’s westernmost province of Aceh after floating at sea for days.
The mostly Muslim ethnic…
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Rescue workers search for survivors after powerful quake strikes Chinas Tibet
Chinese state media CCTV releases images of rescue workers at the site of collapsed buildings and buildings shaking, after dozens of people died following a powerful earthquake…
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California firefighters battling wildfire near Los Angeles
California firefighters battle a fast-moving wildfire near Los Angeles and attempt to extinguish the flames ravaging a house in the upscale Pacific Palisades area.
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Yemen says US aggression against Sana’a killed civilian, injured 13
Yemen’s Ministry of Health and Environment has announced that a US aggression against civilian infrastructure and residential buildings in Ma’in District, Sana’a, killed one civilian and injured 13…
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Search, rescue ops continue in Tibets Shigatse following deadly 7.1 magnitude earthquake
Rescue efforts continue in Shigatse region after a devastating earthquake hit Tibet and killed at least 126 people and injured 188 others.
Footage filmed on Wednesday shows…
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Narendra Modi’s hope for a thaw amid uncertain geopolitics between India and China
Michael KugelmanForeign policy analyst
Press Information BureauIndia’s pitch for a close partnership with China has suggested improvement in bilateral ties In a recent interview, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke positively about India’s…
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‘I scarred my six children’
Madina MaishanuBBC News, Kano
BBCA mother in northern Nigeria is visibly upset as she clutches her two-year-old child, who has burns and discoloured skin on his face and legs.
The 32-year-old used skin-whitening products on all six of her children,…
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