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Rio de Janeiro/New Delhi, Nov 20 (UNI) India and Australia launched the Renewable Energy Partnership to boost two-way investment in the renewable energy sector, during the bilateral talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The two leaders met at…
Los Angeles, Nov 20 (UNI) SpaceX launched the sixth test flight of its giant Starship rocket on Tuesday. Starship took off from the company’s Starbase facility near Brownsville in the U.S. state of Texas at about 4:01 p.m. Central Time. Starship’s Raptor engines ignited during hot-staging separation. Several minutes after liftoff, the Super Heavy booster…
Ramallah, Nov 20 (UNI) Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli army gunfire in the eastern neighborhood of Jenin city in the northern West Bank on Tuesday, according to Palestinian medical sources. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that its team retrieved two bodies from a house in the neighborhood. The Palestinian Ministry…
San Francisco, Nov 20 (UNI) Weather authorities of the U.S. state of California have issued a series of advisories and warnings as a powerful bomb cyclone intensifies off the U.S. Pacific coast. The storm’s most immediate threat is from wind, with high-wind warnings in effect along the northern coast and interior areas of Humboldt and…
Damascus, Nov 20 (UNI) U.S. airstrikes killed five members of Iran-backed militias and wounded several others in eastern Syria on Tuesday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Britain-based monitoring group reported that U.S. warplanes targeted military gatherings in the Al-Quriyah desert of Deir ez-Zor province. It said the strikes came after a…
Rio de Janeiro/New Delhi, Nov 19 (UNI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and noted that the implementation of the October 21 agreement between both nations on disengagement at the LAC has proceeded as planned. In his statement during…
Washington, Nov 19 (UNI) The US plans to develop a new nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM-N), with the first prototype expected to be created in the next three years, according to a government document reviewed by Sputnik on Tuesday. The system, which will be mounted on submarines, should be ready for military deployment by 2034,…
Washington, Nov 19 (UNI) US President-elect Donald Trump allegedly personally calls Republican senators, urging them to vote for Matt Gaetz’s candidacy for the country’s Attorney General and the head of the Justice Department despite the charges against the former congressman, Axios reported citing senators. Earlier, NBC reported citing sources that more than half of US…
Rio De Janeiro, Nov 19 (UNI) The Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty has officially kicked off its work, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said at the opening ceremony of the G20 leaders’ summit in Brazil. “I would like to officially announce the launch of the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty,” the…
Quito, Nov. 19 (UNI) Ecuador declared a 60-day national emergency to tackle wildfires, water shortages and drought afflicting the South American country, said Energy Minister Ines Manzano on Monday. Seventeen active fires and five controlled ones were reported in different parts of the country, with the southern provinces of Azuay and Loja being the hardest-hit…
