A 24-year-old woman from India who was cremated on a funeral pyre may have been alive when the cremation took place, according to local reports. Student Rachna Sisodia had been declared dead at Sharda hospital in Greater Noida, in northern India’s Uttar
China’s population is facing a decline, and the government is taking action to address the issue by offering incentives for families to have more children, including free in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment. For decades, China had a strict one-child policy in place, which aimed to curb population growth. However, the policy was lifted in 2015, and
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At least 100 people are feared trapped after a cable bridge collapsed in Morbi, Gujarat, on Sunday evening, local media NDTV reported. About 500 people were on the bridge when it collapsed, the report said. ANI news agency reported that several people are feared injured, and a rescue operation is now underway. The cause of
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China’s Xi Jinping secured a precedent-breaking third leadership term on Sunday and introduced a top governing body stacked with loyalists, cementing his place as the country’s most powerful ruler since Mao Zedong. Shanghai Communist Party chief Li Qiang followed Xi onto the stage at the Great Hall of the People as the new Politburo Standing Committee was
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russia says it has withdrawn its troops from the city of Lyman as Ukraine’s eastern counteroffensive gains more ground.
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Phnom Penh (AFP) – One person died and more than 20 are missing at sea after a boat carrying Chinese nationals sank off the coast of Cambodia, an official said Friday. The boat with 41 Chinese people on board got into difficulties off Sihanoukville on Thursday, provincial spokesperson Kheang Phearom told AFP. The once-quiet fishing village
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More than 900 people died, and over 30 million others were affected in Pakistan as a result of massive floods caused by torrential rains, prompting the government to declare a national emergency. The death toll rose to 937 on Thursday, including 343 children and 198 women, Daily Pakistan reported, citing data from the National Disaster
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attacked Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday during an interview in Italy, claiming that “the fact that he is a Jew does not negate the Nazi elements in his country. I believe that Adolf Hitler also had Jewish blood.” “Zlansky can promote peace between the states if he stops giving
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The Group of Seven most industralised nations on Thursday said it would do everything in its power to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin and his supporters personally responsible for the Ukraine invasion. “We will spare no efforts to hold President Putin and the architects and supporters of this aggression, including the Lukashenko regime in Belarus,
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New Zealand will require teachers and workers in the health and disability sectors to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday, as she extended restrictions in Auckland, its largest city, for another week. New Zealand is fighting the highly infectious Delta outbreak that forced it to abandon its long-standing strategy
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A suicide bomb attack on a mosque in the Afghanistan has killed at least 50 people, officials say. The attack, which occurred in a Shiite mosque, is the deadliest assault since US forces left in September. The blast hit the mosque during the Friday prayer service at the Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque, when members of the
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