An explosion rocked a shopping plaza in the Armenian capital on Sunday, resulting in dozens of casualties, according to the nation’s Ministry of Emergency Situations. According to the health ministry’s preliminary data, one person has died and another 26 were injured in the blast at the Surmalu shopping plaza in …
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Berlin police have launched an investigation after at least nine women reported feeling unwell following an invite-only event hosted by the parliamentary group of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party on Wednesday. The official probe was first initiated after a 21-year-old woman felt unwell during the party and had no memory of …
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A hypothesis suggesting that the seeds of life could have been literally brought to Earth from space has received a boost from a study published earlier this week that showed that all five key “ingredients” needed to form DNA can be found on asteroids. A group of scientists has discovered …
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An explosion hit a copper and zinc mine in Orenburg Region, Russia near the border with Kazakhstan at 8:50am local time on Saturday. There were 91 miners underground at the moment of the blast, which happened at a depth of 1.2km. Three people were killed, while 88 others were able …
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The blast rocked the venue in the center of the capital of Azerbaijan late on Saturday night. According to photos and videos circulating on social media, the explosion was so powerful it completely destroyed the entrance to the club and caused a fire inside. The health ministry said 24 people were …
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A 6.6-magnitude quake rattled the Mediterranean region, hitting the area to the north-west of Cyprus. The quake’s depth was reported at 19.6 km (12.1 mi), according to the USGS. The quake struck at 01:07 GMT, some 62 km (38 mi) off Paphos, a coastal city in southwest Cyprus with a …
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However, while backing competing factions in bloody fighting across the Middle Eastern nation, the conflict has paradoxically brought the two powers closer together. So close, it seems, that even NATO is worrying about it. A major breakthrough in relations between Moscow and Ankara was evident when Turkey purchased Russia’s S-400 …
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The small but strategically important Caucasus country elected the American-backed Mikhail Saakashvili to serve as president from 2004 to 2013. Still revered by some as an eminent reformer but loathed by others as a self-seeking political gambler given to histrionics and authoritarian tendencies, he has just tried and failed to …
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The quake hit some 20.9 km (13 mi) north-east of Acapulco, Mexico’s largest beach resort and a major seaport on the Pacific coast. The USGS initially reported the tremor’s magnitude as 7.4, but later downgraded it to 7.0. Civil Protection Authorities in the Guerrero state, which has borne the brunt …
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The new tremor hit some 31km (19 miles) north of the city of Jeremie in Haiti’s westernmost Grand’Anse department on Sunday morning, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported. The USGS put the quake’s depth at 12km. While the USGS predicted that some casualties may result from the new quake, …
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