•Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad A Nigerian national has been linked to an international drug trafficking network following the seizure of narcotics worth over $330m (Rs 3,000 crore) from an Iranian boat in the Arabian Sea. The Nigerian was identified by the Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad as an alleged intermediary between a wanted Gujarat-based su...
•US President Donald Trump The US government said it has revoked more than 250,000 visas since President Donald Trump took office, as the administration continues its immigration crackdown and increases vetting of those eligible to enter the country. The revocations involved a variety of violations, including visa holders who violated the term...
•Helicopter crash A medical helicopter crashed into the sea off the coast of Los Angeles, California yesterday, leaving two people dead, two injured and one missing, local authorities told US media. LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn said that “a medevac helicopter leaving Catalina Island has crashed shortly after takeoff.” “Search and rescue op...
•President Vladimir Putin addresses Russia’s lower house of parliament, in Moscow, today Nearly 50 Ukraine war veterans and active fighters took their seats in Russia’s Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, today, making up around one-tenth of the parliament as the conflict grinds through its fifth year. Russia has significantly militaris...
•Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a flydubai plane Israeli leaders said today that a “jihadist” pilot had aimed to crash a flydubai plane with mostly Israeli passengers, who overpowered him and prevented a “major disaster”. “During the flight, as they approached the country, one of the pilots stabbed the other pilot, and apparentl...
•Vessels anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas in southern Iran A British maritime agency said today that unknown projectiles struck three ships in the Strait of Hormuz the previous day. A crude oil tanker, LNG tanker and a third vessel had each “been struck by an unknown projectile”, the United Kingdom Maritime […]
A Flydubai passenger plane travelling from Dubai to Tel Aviv made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia today after its two pilots reportedly got into a physical fight in the cockpit. The Boeing 737, operating as Flight FZ1073, was diverted to Tabuk in northwestern Saudi Arabia after transmitting emergency signals while en route to Israel, [&he...
•A standard hospital ward A hospital in Japan has carried out the world’s first surgery using sheets of commercially available heart muscle stem cells after the ground-breaking therapy was approved this year, one of the surgeons said. Sheets of muscle cells derived from regenerative products known as induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cell...
•A US Air Force C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft After more than a decade, the US-led coalition is ending its mission in Iraq, having helped save the country from jihadists while causing persistent friction. Coalition troops deployed to Iraq and Syria in 2014 to fight the Islamic State (IS) group, which had seized large swathes [&hel...
•An oil tanker of CPC Corporation docked at Keelung Port Asian stocks mostly fell and oil prices extended gains today as hopes for a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz fade amid expectations the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates again next month. Hopes for an easing of Middle East tensions were dashed at the […]
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