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An Indonesian passenger aircraft with 62 people on board has crashed into the sea after taking off from the capital Jakarta, authorities said Saturday. Sriwijaya Air flight SJY 182 had 50 passengers on board, including 10 children, plus…
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Chinese billionaire and Alibaba founder Jack Ma was absent from the final episode of Africa’s Business Heroes television show that he created, a foundation in which 10 emerging African entrepreneurs are given a shared $1.5m (£1.09m) grant…
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A male Indonesian nurse has been suspended after admitting that he stripped off his personal protective equipment to have sex in a toilet with a male patient infected with Covid-19. “It is true that there has been a suspected incident of…
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Kim Jong-un's younger sister is quickly rising in prominence in North Korea to such an extent that she has been tipped as a possible rival to lead the country. After recently hitting back at rumours she was dead, Kim Yo-jong is said to…
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Iran's president has blamed Israel for the killing of a top nuclear scientist on Friday, and said it would not slow down the country's nuclear programme. He alleged that Israel acted as a “mercenary” for America. Hassan Rouhani also…
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Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Friday confirmed that a high-ranking Iranian nuclear physicist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, had been assassinated. Fakhrizadeh was shot and injured “by terrorists” in his vehicle in Ab-Sard, a suburb in eastern Tehran,…
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A 90-year-old widow in India was allegedly gang-raped by two men who stormed into her house at night, a new report by the Times of India has revealed. According to the report, two men came into her house at night on October 24 and…
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Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov, on Friday officially announced his resignation at an extraordinary session of the parliament. Jeenbekov at the meeting said “I decided to leave the presidency in order to preserve peace in our…
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Sooronbay Jeenbekov, Kyrgyzstan’s President, has resigned after a disputed parliamentary election triggered mass protests, according to a speech published by his office on Thursday. “I am not holding on to power,’’ Jeenbekov said in the…
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The fight between Syrian fighters and ISIS has claimed over 90 lives. According to a war monitor, the Syrian Desert clash between the pro-government forces and holdouts of the Islamic State group have killed at least 90 combatants this…
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Court sitting in Guyana sentenced a 50-year-old man identified as Leroy Chacon to three years imprisonment after he was found guilty of committing a sexual offence on the body of a woman at the mortuary. Leroy Chacon was sentenced by a…
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Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada, better known as Kenzo, who created his label in Paris in the 1970s, died on Sunday, the brand that still carries his name said. Aged 81, Takada died of complications linked to COVID-19 at the…
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The Chinese Foreign Ministry and the National Immigration Administration has issued new guidelines in view of the COVID-19 situation to ensure epidemic prevention and control. The Embassy of China in Nigeria disclosed this in a statement…
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Two Nigerians were, on Thursday, arrested by Anti-narcotics police in Ho Chi Minh City, for trafficking methamphetamine. The suspects: Ochie Paul Ejike, and his 35-year-old Vietnamese wife and business partner Ly Moc Kiu, along with…
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After the news emerged that late actor Sushant Singh Rajput owns land on the Moon, many people have been wanting a piece of the celestial body for themselves. Inspired by the actor, now a man in Pakistan bought a one-acre plot of land on…
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A 27-year-old wrestler in Iran, Navid Afkari, Iranian champion wrestler, has been executed after being convicted of stabbing a security guard to death during anti-government protests in 2018. According to BBC, Afkari was executed by…
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Popular Bollywood (Indian) actress, Rhea Chakraborty has been arrested for allegedly buying drugs for her former boyfriend, Sushant Singh Rajput, whose suicide sparked a media storm in India. Sushant Rajput, a 34 years old actor was…
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The Indian government on Wednesday said it would reopen schools for students in upper grades after more than five months of closure amid a daily rise of 89,706 coronavirus infections. According to India’s Health Ministry in its daily…
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An ambulance driver has reportedly raped a 19-year-old girl on her way to the hospital after she tested positive for COVID-19. The teenage girl was reportedly attacked by a man known as V Noufal, 29, while on their way to the Firstline…
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China is planning to launch its own ‘artificial moon’ by 2020 to replace streetlamps and lower electricity costs in urban areas, state media reported Friday. Chengdu, a city in southwestern Sichuan province, is developing “illumination…
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Late night, on Thursday, a 20-year-old girl was arrested by Nandyal police of Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh for pouring acid on her boyfriend who reportedly cheated on her and married another woman She was nabbed at her residence at…
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The father of a three years old girl who was raped and murdered in India, claims that it is part of an on-going feud between rival families. The child who had been missing since Wednesday September 2, was found near her village in the…
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After over 190 people were killed and thousands injured in the blast that rocked Beirut weeks ago, the Lebanese Army has found more than 4 tonnes of highly explosive ammonium nitrate near Beirut port entrance. The location was where…
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China authorities have announced that it will allow some international flights to Beijing to resume from September 3. This was made known by the State broadcaster CCTV on Wednesday. Flights were suspended since March 23 due to the…
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Korean Tech giant, LG Electronics has unveiled a new face mask that includes built-in fans and filters to create what the company is calling a “wearable air purifier”. This innovation which is powered by battery includes two H13 HEPA…
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