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(Yonhap) One Navy officer was killed and four others were injured Friday in an accident involving a destroyer that returned home after a mission in waters off Somalia. The accident occurred at 10:15 a.m. at a naval base in the southern port city of Jinhae when a rope used to connect the 4,400-ton Choi Young […]

In this Dec. 15, 2018, photo, invited guests take photos of the Boeing 737 Max 8 airplane deliver to Air China during a ceremony at Boeing Zhoushan 737 Completion and Delivery Center in Zhoushan, east China’s Zhejiang Province. (AP Photo) The China Air Transport Association (CATA) on Friday said it estimates losses at Chinese airlines […]

© picture-alliance/AP Photo/J. Raoux Provided by Deutsche Welle Billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX firm on Thursday launched a Falcon 9 rocket containing the first 60 satellites of its multibillion-dollar “Starlink” constellation. The system is intended to provide internet from space and could one day number 12,000 satellites.  The rocket took off without incident from Cape Canaveral in Florida around […]

  The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance will win 345 seats, leads show (File) NEW DELHI:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said “India wins yet again” with his party, the BJP, set for a landslide victory in the national elections. Leads show that the BJP will get a clear majority on its own by winning 294 […]

AA Photo Turkey is preparing for potential U.S. sanctions over its purchase of Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile defense systems as Ankara considers the acquisition a “done deal,” Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters, Akar said the U.S. was still trying to dissuade Turkey from purchasing the Russian-made missiles but Ankara was […]

Russian servicemen at the Hmeimim airbase in Syria. © Sputnik / Maksim Blinov Al-Nusra terrorists on Wednesday fired 17 missiles at Russian Khmeimim airbase in Syria, all of which were either intercepted or fell short. The attack came as the Syrian Army faced a mass militant offensive in the Idlib province. Nine missiles were intercepted […]

The White House ordered B-52 bombers to the Gulf on May 4 [Keifer Bowes/US Air Force via AP] Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif warned the United States is “playing a dangerous game” by boosting its military might in the Gulf as the fiery rhetoric between Washington and Tehran continues. Zarif criticised the US move to deploy an aircraft carrier strike group […]

Palestinian Hamas police block protesters from reaching the border fence east o Palestinian Hamas police block protesters from reaching the border fence east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on May 15, 2019 (AFP Photo) Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and Israel have reached a cease-fire agreement, Israeli media reported on Monday. “Hamas and […]

François Nascimbeni, AFP | The support committee of French quadriplegic Vincent Lambert holds a placard reading “Don’t let Vincent starve to death” in Reims, France, on May 19, 2019 Doctors treating French quadriplegic Vincent Lambert, who has been in a deep vegetative state for more than a decade, plan to stop feeding him this week, […]

  Five of the inmates and the three guards were killed by Daesh prisoners during the riot that erupted on Sunday evening at a facility near the capital Dushanbe, the justice ministry said in a statement. (AA) Central Asian nation’s Justice Ministry says the riot broke out late on Sunday in the prison in the […]