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Vladivistok, Sep 28 (UNI) Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos announced that two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut have safely returned to the Earth on Wednesday after living for a year in the International Space Station (ISS). The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft, carrying Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin, and Frank Rubio, had undocked from the Prichal module…

Baghdad, Sep 27 (UNI) More than 450 people have either died or have been injured as a result of a fire at a wedding in the Iraqi governorate of Ninewa, the Iraqi Red Crescent Society said Wednesday. “The death toll and casualties from a fire at a wedding hall in Al-Hamdaniya District east of [the…

Baghdad, Sep 27 (UNI) Up to 114 people were killed and more than 200 injured in a huge wedding hall fire in the town of al-Hamdaniya in Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh, Governor of Nineveh Najm al-Jubouri told reporters on Wednesday. The fire broke out on Tuesday night in the al-Haytham Wedding Hall in the…

Jiuquan, Sep 27 (UNI) China on Wednesday sent its latest remote sensing satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The satellite, Yaogan-33 04, was launched on a Long March-4C carrier rocket at 4:15 a.m. (Beijing Time), and has entered its planned orbit successfully. It will be used for scientific experiments,…

Baghdad, Sep 27 (UNI) More than 100 people were killed and more than 150 others injured in a wedding hall fire in the town of al-Hamdaniya in Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh, the Iraqi Ministry of Health said on Wednesday, quoting preliminary reports. The Iraqi Civil Defense said that the incident occurred before midnight on…

Dhaka, (UNI) Chinese ambassador in Dhaka Yao Wen has said his country supports Bangladesh in opposing ‘external interference’ to keep internal stability and achieve development. “China supports Bangladesh in safeguarding national sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, and in opposing external interference, so that the country can maintain domestic unity and stability and achieve development and…

Islamabad, (UNI) Traces of wild poliovirus type 1 have been found in sewage samples collected from two different parts of Pakistan, the Pakistani Health Ministry said on Tuesday. A sewage sample collected from the southern port city of Karachi on Sept. 5 and two samples collected from the Hangu district of northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province…

Beijing, Sep 27 (UNI) An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted Alaska Peninsula at 0214 GMT on Wednesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 55.93 degrees north latitude and 161.31 degrees west longitude.

Nairobi, Sep 26 (UNI) Kenyan President William Ruto on Monday flagged off the distribution of 100,000 kits that will be used by community health promoters across the country. Ruto said the kits will be essential tools for household screening by the community health promoters who will be at the center of Universal Health Coverage (UHC)…

Manila, Sep 26 (UNI) An offshore earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 rocked Davao Occidental province in the southern Philippines on Tuesday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. The institute said the quake, which occurred at 9:39 a.m. local time, hit at a depth of 122 km, about 434 km southeast of…