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Smoke and fire fill the sky from a massive explosion at a Texas chemical plant in Port Neches on Wednesday, Nov. 27.    Fires were still burning at a Texas chemical plant after multiple explosions injured three workers and forced residents of Port Neches to evacuate.  The first blast at TPC Group Inc.’s Port Neches facility […]

  A displaced resident looks out a window after a deadly fire at a high-rise apartment building Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019, in Minneapolis.David Joles, AP Minneapolis – Five people died and three were injured when a fire broke out on the 14th floor of a public housing high-rise in a heavily immigrant neighborhood of Minneapolis early […]

Rioters throw bricks during a violent protest in Hong Kong in August. Photo: Cui Meng/GT   China expressed its indignation Thursday over the Hong Kong-related act signed by US President Donald Trump, vowing to take tough countermeasures against such sinister intentions, which disrupted the nation’s endeavor to the great rejuvenation. Trump signed the Hong Kong Human Rights […]

President Donald Trump on Tuesday dubbed Butter the National Thanksgiving Turkey, sparing both Butter and its alternate Bread from the holiday table while managing to crack a joke about the impeachment inquiry threatening his presidency. After praising the North Carolina poultry farmer who raised the birds, the president quipped in the Rose Garden ceremony that the […]

Seven men were sentenced to death on Wednesday for their roles in the Holey Artisan café attack, the deadliest terror attack on Bangladesh’s soil. Judge Mohammad Mujibur Rahman of Dhaka Anti-terrorism Special Tribunal also fined each of the convicts Tk 50,000 and acquitted one of the accused, Boro Mizan. On July 1, 2016, armed terrorists […]

German farmers protest in 17 cities Protests are planned in at least 17 different German cities, including Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Hannover, Freiburg, Bayreuth, Erfurt, Oldenburg and Görlitz. They have been organised by a movement known as Land schafft Verbindung (Countryside Creates Connection), which has brought together tens of thousands of farmers through social media platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp. According […]

Sabah File Photo Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Turkey in the first month of 2020, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced on Monday. Responding to a question of whether Putin is going to take part in the TurkStream gas pipeline launch ceremony, Peskov confirmed that the visit was planned during one of the latest phone […]

French soldiers work on a Tiger attack helicopter at a base in Gao, northern Mali, on August 1, 2019. Benoit Tessier, REUTERS Thirteen French were killed on Monday in a helicopter accident during an operation against jihadist militants in northern Mali, the French president’s office said in a statement on Tuesday.  The accident, a collision between two helicopters, occurred while the […]

BEIRUT: A key road in the Lebanese capital reopened Monday following clashes throughout the night between rival groups, some of the worst violence since protests against the country’s ruling elite began last month. The confrontations began Sunday evening after supporters of the country’s two main Shiite political parties, the militant Hezbollah and the Amal Movement […]

Test-launch of Avangard hypersonic glider; A MiG-31 fighter jet with Kinzhal hypersonic missile; Okhotnik heavy drone; Peresvet laser system. © Sputnik / Russia’s Defense Ministr The Russian military will be going all out sci-fi, with Vladimir Putin saying the plan for boosting the Armed Forces until 2033 should focus on AI and weapons based on […]