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Washington: Dozens of tornadoes tore across the US Midwest and flattened entire neighbourhoods, particularly in and around the city of Omaha in the state of Nebraska. "Numerous houses" in western Douglas County, outside of Omaha, were…
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Tokyo: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 on Saturday jolted off Japan's Bonin Islands or Ogasawara Islands, the country's weather agency said. The temblor occurred at 5.36 p.m. local time (0836 GMT) at a depth of 540 km,…
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South Carolina: Atleast three Indian women in Gujarat were killed and one person was injured in a horrific car accident in South Carolina's Greenville County after the overspeeding SUV veered off the road and plunged over a bridge. The…
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Sydney: Two people were killed after an aircraft crashed in Mount Beauty in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday, police said. Located in the state's northeastern, Mount Beauty is a small town surrounded by the Alpine National…
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Houston: A freight train carrying gasoline and propane derailed on Friday afternoon near the Arizona-New Mexico border in the western US, causing the closure of a key trucking route, according to New Mexico State Police (NMSP). About six…
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New Delhi: Numerous women and girls have been detained in Iran for failing to heed head-covering regulations, and hundreds of businesses have been closed for failing to enforce them, UN rights officials reported in Geneva on Friday. The…
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London: Former UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has warned against frozen conflict in Ukraine, during an interview that addressed the outlook in the war with Russia. The idea of "freezing" the war in Ukraine was put forward recently by a…
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Paris: The French and German defense ministers signed an agreement in Paris on Friday for a joint Franco-German-led armaments project worth billions of euros, which includes the development of a next-generation main battle tank. German…
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Tokyo: Three teenagers died after a mini car fell into a paddy field in the western Japanese prefecture of Tokushima, local authorities reported on Friday. Around 10.30 p.m. local time on Thursday, a report was made to emergency services…
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Beijing: In a tragic incident, a 31-year-old Chinese woman died after falling off the edge of a crater while posing for a photo on an Indonesian active volcano known for its popular "blue fire" phenomenon. The deceased has been…
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