Stockholm, Jan 5 Temperatures have plummeted even further in Sweden, the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) said on Friday. Minus 43.8 degrees Celsius was recorded at the northernmost weather station in Naimakka on Thursday afternoon, SMHI added. It was the coldest January temperature recorded in Sweden in 25 years, following previous 25-year-lows of minus…
Tehran, Jan 5 Iran’s Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs, Majid Mir-Ahmadi, said on Friday that both bomb attacks that rocked the area near the tomb of Qassem Soleimani in Kerman, southeastern Iran, were “suicide attacks”. Mir-Ahmadi told the official IRNA news agency that parts of the bombers’ bodies had been found at the site…
Jerusalem, Jan 5 The Israeli military announced on Friday that “for humanitarian reasons” it will suspend military operations in the Tel al-Sultan district of Rafah city in the Gaza Strip from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time to facilitate supplies. Starting from Friday, the Salah al-Din Road, which runs from north to south in…
London, Jan 5 Hundreds of properties have been flooded and residents evacuated in the UK, after a week of heavy rainfall across the country. Major travel disruptions have also been caused by the prolonged extreme weather. Around 1,000 properties in England have been flooded this week, the Environment Agency told media on Friday morning. The…
Tel Aviv, Jan 5 Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah on Friday vowed that the killing of Hamas politburo member and deputy political leader Saleh al Arouri in Beirut will not go unpunished. Al Arouri was killed in alleged Israeli attack. Nasrallah, in a televised address, warned that his movement “cannot accept” the alleged Israeli assassination…
Seoul, Jan 5 North Korea fired nearly 200 artillery shells into waters off its western coast on Friday morning, Seoul’s military said, in its latest saber-rattling after it scrapped a 2018 inter-Korean military accord in November. The move prompted an emergency evacuation order for civilians on the South Korean western border islands of Yeonpyeong and…
Aizawl, Jan 5 Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma, who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several other Union Ministers in Delhi, has reportedly opposed the Centere’s plan to erect fencing along porous Myanmar borders. A highly-placed official on Friday said that the Chief Minister, during his meeting with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, said that if…
Mumbai, Jan 5 Two out of four properties belonging to the kin of absconder terrorist-mafia don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar in Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri district were auctioned off on Friday evening for a total amount of over Rs 2 crores to an unidentified buyer, officials said. The two properties are: a plot of land measuring around 171…
Pune, Jan 5 The Enforcement Directorate on Friday raided the Baramati Agro premises linked with Nationalist Congress Party (SP) MLA Rohit R. Pawar, the grand-nephew of party supremo Sharad Pawar, in a money-laundering case. Besides the Baramati premises, teams of ED sleuths swooped on fiver other locations in the money-laundering case pertaining to the Maharashtra…
Kolkata, Jan 5 Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma on Friday said that his state’s location, bordering Bangladesh in the west and Myanmar in the east, affords it a unique location-specific advantage as it can act as a gateway for international trade with South East Asian countries with facilitation of trade growing over the years following improvements…
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