Tag: Reuters
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‘Deliberate’ Israeli strike on journalists in Lebanon warrants ‘war crime’ investigation: watchdogs
The Israeli strike that killed one journalist and wounded six others in Lebanon merits a “war crime” investigation, rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) told AFP on Thursday. Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah, 37, was killed instantly in the strike on October 13 in the south of the country near the Israeli border. The others present — two…
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Asia’s first monkeypox death reported in India
India confirmed the death of a 22-year-old man from monkeypox in the southern state of Kerala. The death is India’s as well as Asia’s first death from the disease, reports Reuters. This is the world’s fourth known fatality from the disease. Kerala’s revenue minister K Rajan said that the government isolated 21 people who had come in…
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Nepal missing plane found: Rescue recovers 14 bodies
Following the announcement by Nepal’s army that it had located the crash site of the missing plane, rescue workers have so far recovered 14 bodies from the crash site. There were 22 passengers on board. According to a spokesman for the Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, the search for others is continuing. A…
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Missing infant during United States evacuation from Kabul reunites with family
A two-month-old baby boy, Sohail Ahmadi who separated from his family during the United States (US) evacuation from Kabul, Afghanistan in August last year has been reunited with his parental grandfather, Mohammad Qasem Razawi. The video of the boy went viral when the two-month infant was handed to the US soldier over the fence on…
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‘Ongoing negotiations between US and Pak for airspace’: US General
The United States Central Command (Centcom) Chief, General Frank McKenzie said that the United States (US) and Pakistan were involved in ongoing negotiations over the use of a vital air corridor to access Afghanistan, reports Dawn. “Over the last 20 years we’ve been able to use what we call the air boulevard to go in…
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Teen on space flight tells Bezos he has never used Amazon
A Dutch teenager who became the world’s youngest space traveller told billionaire Jeff Bezos on the space flight that he had never ordered anything from Amazon.com. An 18-year-old physics student, Oliver Daemen, accompanied Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos and 82-year-old female aviator Wally Funk – the oldest person to go to space on a 10-minute…