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A young Canadian woman was identified among the three killed Monday by an avalanche at the luxury Swiss ski resort of Zermatt, police said Wednesday. Valais canton police added there may be another skier under the snow after the disappearance of a 30-year-old man was reported on Tuesday. “A new
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Illegal welding work at an Istanbul nightclub started a fire that killed at least 29 people in a residential block, according to a video published by the Turkish Interior Minister on Wednesday. Released CCTV footage shows a worker welding a metal object with a blowtorch in the building when flames
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Meta Platforms-owned WhatsApp was down for thousands of users on Wednesday, even as the smartphone messaging app resumed service for some people, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Around 3,200 people were also facing issues with Instagram in the United States, per Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating
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US President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping spoke by phone on Tuesday, the White House said. The call touched on Taiwan and a number of other topics. A readout of the call will be released shortly. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will
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A fire killed at least 29 people in a 16-story residential building in Istanbul on Tuesday, the governor of Turkiye’s economic capital said, updating an earlier toll of 15 dead and eight hurt. “The number of people who lost their lives in the fire... in Gayrettepe of Besiktas district
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NASA said Tuesday it was analyzing an object that crashed from the sky into a US man’s home in the state of Florida-- which could well be a piece of debris jettisoned from the International Space Station. Alejandro Otero of Naples, Florida, posted on X that the item “tore
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At least six students were killed and 14 injured Tuesday when a truck ploughed into them on their way out of school in Iraq’s southern province of Basra, authorities said. “Police in Basra arrested the truck driver who ran over six students, killing them and injuring 14” others in
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The death of Emile Soleil, a two-and-a-half year old boy who went missing in a French Alpine village last summer, remains unexplained despite the discovery of his skull by a walker at the weekend, the prosecutor said on Tuesday. The skull and teeth found so far “do not indicate what
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Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will be sworn in on Tuesday for a third consecutive term in the new capital being built outside Cairo, government newspaper Al-Ahram confirmed Monday. In power for over a decade, Sisi “will take the oath of office on the constitution Tuesday in the new parliament
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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 hit Iwate and Aomori prefectures in northern Japan on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The epicenter was northern coastal part of Iwate Prefecture, the agency said, adding that a tsunami warning had not been issued. There were no reports of
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Somalia’s parliament has unanimously approved proposals to overhaul the country’s electoral system to reintroduce universal suffrage, a plan that has been criticized by some leading politicians. Last March, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud pledged to end the complex clan-based indirect voting system in place for more than half a
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A China foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday that no matter what policies the Philippines rolls out, it cannot affect China’s sovereignty and maritime rights. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr ordered his government to strengthen its coordination on maritime security to confront “serious challenges” to territorial integrity and peace
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Indonesia’s President-elect Prabowo Subianto is expected to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Monday for high-level talks, less than two months after winning the race to lead Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. Prabowo is visiting at Xi’s invitation to discuss two-way ties, even though the 72-year-old
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India strongly objected on Wednesday to US remarks about its “internal affairs” after the arrest of Delhi’s chief minister, a government rival, and the freezing of opposition Congress party bank accounts ahead of an election. Arvind Kejriwal, whose Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) governs the national capital territory and the
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Anti-establishment figure Bassirou Diomaye Faye has comfortably won the Senegalese presidential election with 54.28 percent of votes in the first round, official provisional results showed Wednesday. He placed well ahead of the governing coalition’s candidate, former prime minister Amadou Ba, who garnered 35.79 percent. The victory for
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China on Thursday blamed Philippine actions for recent rising tension between the two sides in the hotly contested South China Sea. “The provocations by the Philippine side are the direct cause of the recent heating up of the South China Sea issue,” a statement from the defense ministry read, adding: