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Pakistan seizes poisonous solvent used in cough syrup
Published on 11/01/2024
» ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has seized a batch of contaminated propylene glycol solvent that was labelled as manufactured by Dow Chemical, Thailand, the country’s drug regulatory authority said on Thursday.
French president names youngest-ever PM
Published on 09/01/2024
» PARIS - Emmanuel Macron appointed 34-year-old Education Minister Gabriel Attal as his new prime minister on Tuesday, as the French president seeks to breathe new life into his troubled second term.
South Korea's parliament passes bill to ban dog meat trade
Reuters, Published on 09/01/2024
» SEOUL - South Korea's parliament passed a bill on Tuesday to end the eating and selling of dog meat, a move that would outlaw the controversial centuries-old practice amid growing support for animal welfare.
Timeline: Boeing's ongoing 737 Max crisis
Published on 07/01/2024
» The latest black eye for Boeing's top-selling 737 Max aircraft occurred as recently as Friday when a cabin panel blowout forced an Alaska Airlines flight to make an emergency landing.
Shells from Myanmar hit Chinese town
Published on 04/01/2024
» BEIJING - Five people in a Chinese town near Myanmar were wounded on Wednesday by stray artillery shells from across the border, local media reported, as fighting between the Myanmar junta and rebels persisted despite talks.
Putin says Russia will 'intensify' attacks on Ukraine
AFP, Published on 02/01/2024
» KYIV (UKRAINE) - President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Moscow would intensify strikes on military targets in Ukraine, after an unprecedented Ukrainian attack over the weekend on the Russian city of Belgorod.
Russian court jails Navalny ally for 9 years
AFP, Published on 29/12/2023
» MOSCOW - A Russian court on Friday sentenced Ksenia Fadeyeva, who led jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny's now-banned organisation in the Siberian city of Tomsk, to almost a decade in prison, her supporters said.
Fireworks ban sparks fiery debate in China
Published on 29/12/2023
» BEIJING - Chinese lawmakers on Friday weighed in on a fiery online debate on whether fireworks should be used to ring in the Lunar New Year in February, saying a total ban on pyrotechnics in the country credited with inventing them would be hard to enforce.
US military spaceplane launched
Published on 29/12/2023
» CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - The US military’s secretive X-37B robot spaceplane blasted off from Florida on Thursday night on its seventh mission, the first launched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket capable of delivering it to a higher orbit than ever before.
Russia forced to relocate ships from Crimea
Published on 29/12/2023
» Russia has based its Black Sea fleet in Crimea for 240 years. Now President Vladimir Putin is at risk of losing the flagship naval hub as Ukraine steps up attacks in the occupied peninsula.