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Northern India is grappling with a cold wave
Fog disrupts life and travel in northern India
NEW DELHI — A thick blanket of fog has engulfed Delhi and adjoining areas in northern India, leading to travel delays and chaos.More than 100 flights were delayed at the Delhi airport on Friday morning, according to PTI news agency. Dozens of trains have also been rescheduled, or are running late.India's weather department has said that foggy conditions are likely to continue for the next few days.Dense fog is common at this time of the year in Delhi and other parts of northern India, as the region grapples with an intense cold wave.Photos and videos showed several cities shrouded in dense mist and haze.Around nine airports including the one in Delhi experienced zero visibility on Friday morning, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.The Delhi airport has issued an advisory...
January 03, 2025

Fog disrupts life and travel in northern India

Pro-Yoon Suk Yeol supporters at his resdience in Seoul
Attempt to arrest South Korean president suspended after dramatic standoff
SEOUL — After a dramatic six-hour-long standoff with security, South Korea police have called off an attempt to arrest suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol.The military and Yoon's security service officers formed a human wall and used vehicles to block the arrest team's path, local news outlet Yonhap reported.Yoon is under investigation for abusing his power and inciting an insurrection when he tried to impose martial law in early December.The move, although short-lived, led to a political crisis as Yoon was impeached by an opposition-led parliament and suspended from office.A Seoul court issued a warrant for his arrest early this week after he ignored three summonses for him to appear for questioning.If they had been successful, Yoon would have become the first sitting president to...
January 03, 2025

Attempt to arrest South Korean president suspended after dramatic standoff

Toxic waste has been moved from the Union Carbide plant 40 years after the disaster
Toxic waste from Bhopal gas leak factory removed after 40 years
NEW DELHI — Authorities in India have removed hundreds of tons of toxic waste from a chemical factory that witnessed one of the world's deadliest gas leaks 40 years ago.Thousands of people died in the central city of Bhopal in December 1984 after breathing a poisonous gas leaked from the factory.On Wednesday, around 337 tonnes of toxic waste was taken from the Union Carbide plant to an incinerator facility around 230km (143 miles) away after a court last month set a four-week deadline for it to be disposed of.Officials say it will take between three and nine months to treat and destroy the waste but activists have raised concerns about potential damage to people's health at the new location.Since the disaster, the toxic material had been lying in the mothballed factory, polluting...
January 02, 2025

Toxic waste from Bhopal gas leak factory removed after 40 years

The Students Against Discrimination group holds the 'March for Unity' rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on December 31, 2024
Thousands march in Bangladesh to mark student-led uprising that ousted PM Hasina
DHAKA — Thousands of people rallied at a "March for Unity" in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Tuesday to mark the student-led uprising five months ago, Reuters reported. The unrest that led to the ouster of longstanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left more than 1,000 killed and hundreds injured.The Students Against Discrimination (SAD) group that led the protests, dropped a plan to call for changes to the country’s 1972 constitution at the rally, after the interim government announced on Monday that it would prepare a proclamation.SAD says a ‘Proclamation of the July Revolution’ is essential to honour the sacrifice of the protesters who died or were wounded, and to serve as a document reflecting the people’s aspirations. Some political analysts had expressed concern...
January 01, 2025

Thousands march in Bangladesh to mark student-led uprising that ousted PM Hasina

Australia and New Zealand were among the first countries to ring in the New Year
Asia-Pacific region begins welcoming 2025 with fireworks and celebrations
SYDNEY — Countries in the Asia-Pacific region were the first to kick off the New Year's celebrations, with those in the South Pacific Ocean being the first to welcome 2025.Auckland was the first major city to count down to the new year. Thousands reveled and cheered at colorful fireworks launched from New Zealand’s tallest structure, Sky Tower, and a spectacular downtown light show.People also climbed the city’s ring of volcanic peaks for a fireworks vantage point, and a light display recognising Auckland’s Indigenous tribes. It follows a year marked by protests over Māori rights in the nation of 5 million.Fireworks also blasted off the Sydney Harbour Bridge and across the bay as people in Australia rang in the New Year.More than a million people gathered at the iconic Sydney...
January 01, 2025

Asia-Pacific region begins welcoming 2025 with fireworks and celebrations

South Korea's suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol
Arrest warrant issued for impeached S Korea president Yoon
SEOUL — A Seoul court has issued an arrest warrant against South Korea's suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol over his attempt to impose martial law on 3 December.The warrant comes after Yoon, who is being investigated for abusing his power and inciting an insurrection, ignored three summonses to appear for questioning over the past two weeks.Yoon's legal team has called the warrant "illegal and invalid" and said they would challenge it in court.South Korea has been in a political crisis since the short-lived martial law declaration, with Yoon and a successor both impeached by parliament.Yoon is South Korea's first sitting president to face an arrest.Investigators have until 6 January to execute the warrant and can request for an extension.It is unclear, however, if...
December 31, 2024

Arrest warrant issued for impeached S Korea president Yoon

India launches its first space docking mission on December 30, 2024
India launches its first space docking mission
NEW DELHI — India launched its first space docking mission on Monday, on an Indian-made rocket, in an attempt to become the fourth country to achieve the advanced technological feat, Reuters reported.The mission, called Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX), lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Andhra Pradesh state at 1630 GMT aboard the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) “workhorse” PSLV rocket. After around 15 minutes, the mission director called the launch successful after the spacecraft reached an altitude of around 470 kilometers (292 miles).The mission is seen as pivotal for future space endeavors, including satellite servicing and the operation of the country’s planned space station.In-space docking technology is crucial when multiple rocket launches are...
December 31, 2024

India launches its first space docking mission

Medical workers test residents for Covid-19 in the city of Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on May 15, 2020
WHO urges China to share Covid origins data, five years on from pandemic’s emergence
HONG KONG — The World Health Organization has urged China to share data to help understand the origins of Covid-19, five years on from the start of the pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan.On December 31, 2019, the WHO’s China office noted a cluster of “pneumonia” cases in a statement from health authorities in Wuhan. More than three weeks later, Chinese authorities locked down the city of 11 million.Fears of a rapidly spreading virus gripped the nation, but – as authorities would later learn - the coronavirus had already spread far beyond China.While much of the world has moved on from the pandemic lockdowns and restrictions, many questions remain about the source of a virus that killed at least seven million people, crippled healthcare systems and upended the global economy....
December 31, 2024

WHO urges China to share Covid origins data, five years on from pandemic’s emergence

The brutal killing of the 13-year-old boy had triggered intense public anger
Chinese teen sentenced to life in prison for classmate's death
BEIJING — A Chinese court has sentenced two teenagers over the death of their classmate in March.The teens in Hebei province, identified only by their surnames Zhang and Li, were 13 years old when they conspired to kill their classmate Wang and split his money between them.After attacking Wang with a shovel, they buried him in an abandoned vegetable greenhouse, the court said in a statement on Monday, adding that their "methods were especially cruel and circumstances especially vile".The teenagers were sentenced to life imprisonment and 12 years imprisonment, respectively.The sentencing draws a line under the brutal case, which triggered intense public anger when it was first reported.Wang had long been bullied in school by three classmates, his family and lawyer said in March,...
December 30, 2024

Chinese teen sentenced to life in prison for classmate's death

The wreckage of Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 lies on the ground near the airport of Aktau, 25, December, 2024
Kazakhstan to send Azerbaijan Airlines black boxes to Brazil
ASTANA — Kazakhstan has decided to send the downed Azerbaijan Airlines flight recorders to Brazil, Kazakhstan's government sources told Euronews in a statement, in a move which indicates the country's will for full and transparent disclosure of the tragedy.In the statement, the government in Astana says it made the decision as the Azal aircraft was manufactured in Brazil and comes after "after consultations with Azerbaijan and Russia"."In accordance with the standards of Annex 13 of the Chicago Convention, the state conducting the investigation ensures the reading of flight recorders and decides on the selection of a country to read and decode the black boxes," the statement said, adding that Kazakhstan is a member of the International Civil Aviation...
December 30, 2024

Kazakhstan to send Azerbaijan Airlines black boxes to Brazil

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