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Kiev, Aug 14 (UNI) Air raid warnings were issued in several regions of Ukraine late on Sunday night, according to air raid data from the country’s Ministry of Digital Transformation. Air raid sirens sounded in Ukraine’s regions of Sumy, Mykolaiv, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, Kharkiv, Odesa and Poltava, as well as Kiev-controlled parts of Kherson region,…
Washington, Aug 14 (UNI) Five people were killed and three others injured after a house explosion in U.S. Pennsylvania on Saturday, authorities said on Sunday. First responders from the police and fire department arrived on scene after a report of the house explosion in Plum, a borough in western Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County at around 10:23…
Washington, Aug 14 (UNI) A MiG-23 fighter plane has crashed during an air show in the US state of Michigan, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) informs. “NTSB investigating the Aug. 13 crash of a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 near Ypsilanti, Michigan,” the safety board said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on…
Dhaka, (UNI) Two incidents of bird strikes have occurred at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, but no casualties have been reported. A flight of the national flag-carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines on the Dhaka-Bangkok route aborted take-off as a bird strike caused one of its tyres to burst on Saturday. Passengers…
Beijing, (UNI) An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted 17 km ENE of Palaiochora, Greece at 0749 GMT on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 35.29 degrees north latitude and 23.86 degrees east longitude.
Hawaii, (UNI) The Maui County government has updated the death toll from wildfires in Hawaii to 93, as of Sunday, with only two of the deceased identified. Earlier the day, Hawaii Governor Josh Green put the death toll at 89, telling media that it made the Hawaii wildfires the deadliest in US history. “The number…
Tel Aviv, Aug 13 (UNI) Tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday for the 32nd week of protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial reform. The organizers said dozens of rallies were underway across the country, even as Netanyahu promised to scale back the controversial judicial overhaul. The…
Manila, Aug 13 (UNI) An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 rocked Batanes province in the northern Philippines on Sunday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. The institute said the quake, which occurred at 9:43 a.m. local time (0143 GMT), hit at a depth of 10 km, about 38 km southwest…
St. Petersburg, Aug 13 (UNI) A Russian Su-30 fighter jet crashed on Saturday during a training flight in the Kaliningrad region. The plane, equipped with no ammunition, crashed in a deserted area, killing its crew on board, said the press service of the Western Military District of Russia. According to the preliminary report, the crash…
Ankara, Aug 13 (UNI) Turkey has successfully launched a domestically-manufactured probe rocket into space, the Turkish Space Agency informs. “As part of our country’s efforts to reach space, the probe rocket developed with domestic and national technologies was successfully launched from Igneada,” the space agency said on Twitter on Saturday. The rocket was developed by…
