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Moscow, Feb 15 (UNI) A fire in the Izvestia Hall building on Pushkin Square in central Moscow has spread to 1,500 square metres, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said Thursday on its social media channel. No information about casualties has been reported. Firefighters are extinguishing the blaze. The fire broke out in the administrative…
Hanoi, Feb 15 (UNI) Traffic accidents claimed the lives of 214 people and injured 504 others in seven days of the Lunar New Year holiday in Vietnam from Feb 8 to 14, local media reported Thursday, citing the National Traffic Safety Committee. A total of 541 traffic accidents occurred during the cited period, said the…
Baku, Feb 15 (UNI) Ilham Aliyev was sworn in for a new term as Azerbaijan’s president during a ceremony here on Wednesday, according to local media reports. Aliyev took the oath of office in the parliament building in the presence of constitutional court judges, Azerbaijan’s state news agency AZERTAC reported. The inauguration was also attended…
Manila, Feb 15 (UNI) The death toll from the Feb. 6 landslide that hit a mining town in Davao de Oro province in the southern Philippines has risen to 92, local authorities said Thursday. Provincial government of Davao de Oro said on social media that rescuers are still looking for 36 missing people. Leah Anora…
Kathmandu, Feb 15 (UNI) Twenty people were killed and dozens of others injured in two traffic accidents in Nepal in the past two days. A passenger bus carrying 40 people to Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital, plunged into a river in Kapilvastu district early Thursday, leaving 10 dead and all the others wounded. “Six of the injured…
Nairobi, Feb 14 (UNI) The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said it is working with its partners to scale up support for vulnerable children and families affected by cholera in eastern and southern Africa. UNICEF said vaccination, education, and resilience are part of a regional strategy to tackle cholera outbreaks in the region. “UNICEF is…
Buenos Aires, Feb 14 (UNI) A fire that has been burning for 20 days at Argentina’s Los Alerces National Park, in the southern province of Chubut, has destroyed around 8,205 hectares of the nature reserve, local authorities said on Tuesday. “The fire continues to be active, presenting specific areas of greater intensity, both at the…
Beijing, Feb 14 (UNI) An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 jolted Near Coast of Central Chile at 0131 GMT on Wednesday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 27.9 km, was initially determined to be at 28.81 degrees south latitude and 71.63 degrees west longitude.
Ankara, (UNI) At least nine workers were believed to be trapped in a landslide in a gold mine area on Tuesday in the Ilic district of eastern Turkey’s Erzincan Province, local NTV reported, citing local authorities. Erzincan Governor Hamza Aydogdu told reporters that there may be nine to 12 workers trapped underground, but the exact…
Manila, Feb 14 (UNI) Thirty-four people were injured after the second floor of a packed Roman Catholic Church in Bulacan province, north of Manila, collapsed on Wednesday, a disaster-response official said. Gina Ayson, head of the San Jose del Monte City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office, said the accident occurred in the morning as Catholics…
