Friday’s terrorist attack at a Moscow concert hall claimed at least 137 lives, according to an update from Russia’s Investigative Committee. The search for bodies is continuing as of Sunday in the part of the complex that burned down in a massive fire. A group of gunmen stormed Crocus City …
Read More »Death toll in Kramatorsk railway station attack rises
Around 50 people, including five children, were killed on Friday in an attack on a railway station in eastern Ukraine, the Kiev-appointed authorities claim in their latest statement. Both Russia and Ukraine have been trading accusations about the deadly incident On Friday morning, a rocket hit the railway station in …
Read More »The Chinese tech giant America tried to crush rises again
There has been no other technology firm that has symbolized and encapsulated the dynamics of the emerging struggle between China and the United States the way Huawei has. The Shenzhen telecommunications firm has been one of China’s leading technology giants, and was subjected in 2019-2020 to a relentless campaign by …
Read More »Belgium sets day of mourning as death toll from catastrophic floods in Europe rises to 153
German authorities confirmed that 90 people have died in the Rhineland-Palatinate region, and 43 have died in neighboring North Rhine-Westphalia. Rescue helicopters, fire crews and the military were deployed to the western German regions after rivers burst their banks due to heavy rainfall. The powerful flow of water swept up …
Read More »Death toll in Miami building collapse rises to 9 as rescue teams keep working ‘non-stop’
Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava confirmed on Sunday morning that the number of confirmed deaths following the tragic collapse had risen to nine. One victim, pulled from the rubble on Thursday, died in hospital, and four more bodies were found overnight, bringing the total number of people found dead …
Read More »Death toll rises to 98 after series of blasts at Equatorial Guinea military base
At least four explosions were reported to have struck a military base in the port city of Bata on Sunday, with images from the scene depicting a rubble-strewn landscape of levelled buildings. In an update posted via Twitter on Monday, the country’s health ministry cited Vice-President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue as saying that …
Read More »Yet again, Novak Djokovic rises above the slings and arrows to prove his class on court
For a ninth time, Djokovic was the man to lift the silver Norman Brookes Challenge Cup aloft at the end of two weeks at Melbourne Park. The 33-year-old has called the tournament his ‘second home’, such has his success been down the years – and this time it was Daniil …
Read More »Oil rises to multi-month highs as OPEC+ likely to follow current production policy
Brent crude futures for the March delivery were at $52.94 per barrel, up 2.2 percent at 07:45 GMT, while the February West Texas Intermediate contract advanced 1.1 percent to $49.43 per barrel. Crude markets are braced for the next moves by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and …
Read More »The peak wasn’t the peak? UK & France record HIGHEST-EVER daily rises in Covid-19 cases
The UK recorded some 6,634 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, the highest daily figure yet. The country’s total Covid-19 tally has surpassed 400,000 cases, with nearly 42 thousand deaths. The vast majority of the new cases – 5,632 – come from England, the official figures show. Scotland has reported 465 …
Read More »The new “oil” glow rises over the Middle East
The situation in the middle East, the attention which was diverted due to the arrival in some countries of the “second wave” of coronavirus, rapidly deteriorating. In armed conflict engages more of the parties. Thus, in the Northern part of Iraq inhabited by the Kurds, Turkey almost seamlessly launched a …
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