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Tokyo, Jan 26 (UNI) The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), has announced a plan to release around 54,600 tons of nuclear-contaminated water from the facility into the ocean in fiscal 2024. The volume is expected to be discharged into the Pacific Ocean in seven rounds, starting from…

Jerusalem, Jan 26 (UNI) Israeli tanks are targeting Al-Amal hospital in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, resulting in several injuries, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said in a statement on Friday. “The hospital has been besieged with heavy gunfire. Our teams are unable to reach the injured people,” added the statement….

Moscow, Jan 26 (UNI) Russian President Vladimir Putin sent Republic Day greetings to Indian President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, praising the country’s achievements and well-deserved authority in the global arena. Republic Day commemorates the adoption of India’s constitution, which came into effect on January 26, 1950, following the end of…

Goma, Jan 26 (UNI) At least 19 civilians were killed following a bomb explosion launched by rebels in the city of Mweso in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), said the army in a press release. The rebels of the March 23 Movement fired 120 mortar bombs, killing 19 people and injuring 27 others,…

Morogoro, Jan 26 (UNI) At least four people were killed by flash floods caused by heavy rains in eastern Tanzania, authorities said. Of the dead, two pupils were killed after their houses were swept away by flash floods at Kihonda Kiegeya in the Morogoro municipality on Thursday morning, said Shaaban Malugujo, Morogoro region’s commander for…

Houston, Jan 26 (UNI) The southern U.S. state of Alabama on Thursday night completed the country’s first execution using nitrogen gas asphyxiation. Inmate Kenneth Smith, a 58-year-old convicted murderer, was put to death at 8:25 p.m. local time at an Alabama prison after breathing pure nitrogen gas through a face mask to cause oxygen deprivation,…

Kuala Lumpur, Jan 26 (UNI) A landslide at a popular tourist destination in Malaysia’s Pahang state resulted in one death, with four more victims believed to be buried early Friday morning.

Beijing, Jan 25 (UNI) Taiwan will never be a country, and no separatist activities seeking “Taiwan independence” or attempts by foreign forces to split China will ever succeed, a spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday. The elections in the Taiwan region were the affairs of a region in China, spokesperson Wu…

Colombo, Jan 25 (UNI) Sri Lankan State Minister of Water Supply Sanath Nishantha and a police officer died in a road accident on the Colombo-Katunayake expressway on Thursday, police said. The state minister’s vehicle crashed with a container truck at 2:00 a.m. local time in the Kandana police division of the expressway. The state minister…

Seoul, Jan 25 (UNI) The Missile Administration of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Wednesday conducted the first test-fire of the new-type strategic cruise missile “Pulhwasal-3-31” under development, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Thursday. The test-fire had no impact on the security of neighboring countries and has nothing to…