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A passenger without a ticket managed to sneak onto a Delta Airlines flight just as the plane was about to take off for Hawaii from Seattle. The incident transpired on Flight 487, an Airbus A321neo on Christmas Eve as the unidentified person was apprehended and booted, as per a report in New York Post. After…
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File photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: REUTERS The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday, December 26, 2024, its analysis of samples from the first severe case of bird flu in the country last week showed mutations not seen in samples from an infected backyard flock on the…
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Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed’s brother-in-law and banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa deputy chief Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki died of a heart attack here on Friday (December 27, 2024). According to the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), Abdul Rahman Makki had been ill for the past few days and was undergoing treatment following high diabetes at a private hospital in Lahore….
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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, from left, his wife Sara Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog. File | Photo Credit: AP Israel’s attorney general has ordered police to open an investigation into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife on suspicion of harassing political opponents and a witness in the Israeli leader’s corruption trial….
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announces the decision to dissolve the German Bundestag and schedule a new election for February 23 next year, in Berlin, Friday, Dec. 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday (December 27, 2024) ordered parliament dissolved and set new elections for Feb. 23 in the wake of…
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New Delhi: Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, elected in October, has expressed his intent to move into his official residence despite persistent rumours of the house being “haunted”. Originally constructed in 1929, the two-story, 5,183-square-metre stone and brick mansion was initially built as the Prime Minister’s office. Its Art Deco design symbolised Japan’s transition to…
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Seoul, South Korea: A North Korean soldier who was captured while fighting in Russia’s war against Ukraine has died of his wounds, South Korea’s spy agency said on Friday. Pyongyang has deployed thousands of troops to reinforce Russia’s military, including in the Kursk border region where Ukraine mounted a shock border incursion in August. One…
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New Delhi: The world experienced an average of 41 more days of extreme heat in 2024 due to climate change, a new report said on Friday. According to the European climate agency Copernicus, 2024 is set to end as the warmest year on record and the first year with a global average temperature of 1.5…
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Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: AP Russia’s arms control point man cautioned Donald Trump’s incoming administration on Friday (December 27, 2024) that Moscow was considering a whole range of possible steps on nuclear testing owing to what it said was Donald Trump’s radical position on the issue. The Kommersant newspaper quoted Deputy Foreign Minister…
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Han Duck-Soo was impeached over martial law fiasco. Seoul, South Korea: South Korean lawmakers impeached acting President Han Duck-soo on Friday, finding he “actively participated in the insurrection” after his predecessor declared martial law earlier this month. “I announce that Prime Minister Han Duck-soo’s impeachment motion has passed. Out of the 192 lawmakers who voted,…
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