Mon 24 April 2023: A Flydubai flight from Kathmandu to Dubai experienced a bird strike during takeoff but is now heading to the United Arab Emirates, the company said on Monday. Jagannath Niroula, spokesperson for Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said in a statement to Reuters an engine caught fire on the Flydubai Boeing 737-800 […]
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Mon 24 Apr 2023: Russia’s oil output this year is on course to top 480 million tonnes, or about 9.6 million barrels per day (bpd), a Russian government source familiar with the data told Reuters. The figure, which excludes gas condensate, is in line with Russia’s pledge to cut production by 500,000 bpd to 9.5 million […]
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Mon 24 Apr 2023: More than 1,300 people in the UK died while homeless last year, according to figures that highlight the stark regional differences within the UK, as cuts to health, mental health and drug and alcohol services took their toll. Research by the charity Museum of Homelessness shows that the number of homeless people who […]
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Mon 24 Apr 2023: Pakistani government hope that Islamabad will sign a deal for additional deposits of $2 billion from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), media reports said. A top government official said that the State Bank of Pakistan will sign a deal with the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) soon after Eid for […]
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Mon 24 Apr 2023: Air pollution still causes more than 1,200 premature deaths a year in under 18’s across Europe and increases the risk of chronic disease later in life, the EU environmental agency said Monday. Despite recent improvements, “the level of key air pollutants in many European countries remain stubbornly above World Health Organization” (WHO) guidelines, […]
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Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov (R) and his son Nikolai. [Twitter] Mon 24 Apr 2023: The Kremlin’s spokesperson “must be dismissed” from his job, according to the leader of the Wagner paramilitary group, following a scandal surrounding an interview of his son, who spent six months in the Wagner Private Military Company, Anadolu Agency reported. “Of […]
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Mon 24 Apr 2023: World military spending reached an all-time high of $2.24 trillion in 2022, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine fuelled a sharp jump in military spending across Europe, according to a leading defence think tank. Global spending rose for the eighth consecutive year, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said on Monday […]
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Sun 23 Apr 2023: A banned terrorist organization is preparing to target former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan as well as other prominent political figures in the nation, according to a confidential report from the Pakistani Ministry of Defence, the media reported on Sunday. Hostile forces may also target Pakistan’s interior […]
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Sun 23 Apr 2023: Millions of mobile phones in the United Kingdom rang with a siren on Sunday as part of a test for a new national emergency warning system. The loud alarm was planned to ring at 3 pm (1400 GMT) on all devices that were using 4G and 5G networks in Britain. The […]
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Sun 23 Apr 2023: Days after armed fighting erupted in Sudan, Dalia Mohamed and her mother were faced with an impossible choice: flee the capital of Khartoum or stay. With their house located in the heart of a civil war, the constant sounds of bullets, rockets and shelling soon became too much to bear. On Thursday, […]
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