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New Delhi: A plane with 34 passengers on-board landed on a frozen River by mistake in Russia on Thursday. The plane reportedly landed on the frozen River near an airport in far east Russia. The transport prosecutors reportedly termed it…

Hanoi: Pained by the suffering of cats during their slaughtering, a Vietnamese man who killed over 300 cats a month shut down his restaurant. Pham Quoc Doanh reportedly tore down the sign advertising cat meat, or thit meo, outside his Gia…

New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affair (MEA) on Thursday said that India has noted the Dahra Global case verdict in which the sentences of eight former Indian Navy personnel on death row have been reduced.“We have noted the verdict…

Bishkek: Kyrgyz special services foiled a terror attack attempt targeting New Year holidays, the press service of the country's State Committee for National Security reported Thursday.The report said that members of the terrorist group…

Beijing: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 jolted Southern East Pacific Rise at 2133 GMT on Wednesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said.The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at…

Paris: In a recent incident, the Eiffel Tower was closed on Wednesday after the management staff called a strike, said reliable reports in this regard.The General Confederation of Labour (CGT) Union informed that strike was called on…

Tel Aviv: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in a statement on Thursday said that it has destroyed a network of strategic tunnels multiple kilometers long beneath and around Rantisi Hospital in northern Gaza.It also said that the tunnel…

Houston:  Six people, including two kids aged 9 and 10, were killed and three others hospitalized after a head-on crash along a highway in Texas, according to a news release from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS).The dead,…

Sydney: At least eight people have lost their lives in Australia, with one still missing, as wild thunderstorms ripped through the country's southeast coast during Christmas and Boxing Day.In Queensland, the death toll rose to six…

Sydney: Over 120 kg of cocaine washed up in beaches of Australia during the Christmas period, claimed Australian police.The police discovered 39 packets of one-kilogram bricks of suspected cocaine on Friday near Magenta Beach. Later,…

Tel Aviv: Several rockets were fired into northern Israel on Wednesday morning with the Iran-backed terror outfit Hezbollah claiming responsibility.According to sources in Israel Defence Ministry, the Iron Dome Air Defence system had…

New Delhi: In a historic and visionary message addressed to Dr Tony Nader, esteemed Chairman of the Global Union of Scientists for Peace, Dr Yukio Hatoyama, former Prime Minister of Japan (2009-2010), enthusiastically commended the upcoming…

Seoul: The rate of child births in South Korea fell to the lowest point for any October to date, data showed on Wednesday.A total of 18,904 child births in South Korea was recorded in October, down 8.4 per cent from a year earlier,…

Congo: At least 22 people lost their life in Congo due to floods. This came after torrential rains caused damage to infrastructure and led to floods in the Kasai-Central province, reliable reports said in this regard.A landslide…

Baghdad: An Iraqi Shiite militia has claimed responsibility for a rocket barrage on a US military base in Syria's northeastern province of al-Hasakah.The militia, named Islamic Resistance in Iraq, claimed in an online statement on…