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Planemakers look at higher output to meet demand
Published On: February 6, 2018 09:55 PM NPT By: Reuters
SINGAPORE, Feb 6: The world’s largest planemakers signaled a possible increase in output of their most popular passenger jets on Tuesday, highlighting their confidence about growth in demand for air travel.
U.N. demands cessation of Syria hostilities, says situation 'extreme'
Published On: February 6, 2018 02:45 PM NPT By: Reuters
BEIRUT, Feb 6: U.N. representatives in Syria called on Tuesday for an immediate cessation of hostilities lasting at least month throughout Syria to allow aid deliveries and evacuations of the sick and wounded.
Asian shares tumble after Dow has worst day since 2011
Published On: February 6, 2018 01:34 PM NPT By: Associated Press
TOKYO, Feb 6: Asian markets were rattled Tuesday by the miseries on Wall Street, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 index briefly dipping more than 7 percent, but investors seemed to be taking the gyrations in stride.
Bloody 24 hours as Syria, Russia escalate punishing attacks
Published On: February 6, 2018 10:24 AM NPT By: Associated Press
BEIRUT, Feb 6: Syrian opposition rescue teams pulled babies from incubators in a hospital under attack, rushing them to safety in a pick-up truck. Elderly patients lay motionless on the ground and rescue workers searched for survivors in the rubble of a destroyed apartment building as stepped up airstrikes by Syrian government forces and their Russian allies on the country’s last remaining rebel strongholds killed at least 28 civilians on Monday.
Ten good things about Cape Town’s drought
Published On: February 5, 2018 12:19 PM NPT By: Agencies
It might not seem like it right now, but the drought that has hit Cape Town and surrounding areas‚ officially the worst in recorded history‚ has done us all some good.
Amtrak crash in South Carolina leaves 2 dead, over 100 hurt
Published On: February 5, 2018 09:30 AM NPT By: Associated Press
CAYCE, S.C. Feb 5: An Amtrak passenger train slammed into a parked freight train in the early-morning darkness Sunday after a thrown switch sent it hurtling down a side track, authorities said. Two Amtrak crew members were killed, and more than 100 people were injured.
Kim Jong Un's secret profit center in Africa revealed
Published On: February 4, 2018 04:48 PM NPT By: Agencies
North Korea, Feb 4: On the surface, there is nothing remarkable about this sleepy fishing port in Maputo. But hidden from view, wedged between the other boats and ships docked there, are the rusty Susan 1 and Susan 2. These are not ordinary fishing vessels, but sanctions-busting trawlers manned by crews from North Korea.
Police: 5-year-old girl burned in voodoo ritual; 2 charged
Published On: February 4, 2018 08:46 AM NPT By: Associated Press
EAST BRIDGEWATER, Feb 4: Two sisters tied down and burned a 5-year-old girl, permanently disfiguring her, in a voodoo ritual meant to rid her of a demon causing her to misbehave, police said. The women also threatened to cut off the head of the girl’s 8-year-old brother with a machete, authorities said.
Police: Extreme-right gunman shoots 6 Africans in Italy
Published On: February 4, 2018 08:26 AM NPT By: Associated Press
MILAN, Feb 4: An Italian gunman with extreme right-wing sympathies shot and wounded six African immigrants Saturday in a two-hour drive-by shooting spree, authorities said, terrorizing a small Italian city where a Nigerian man had been arrested days earlier in a teenager’s gruesome killing.
8 Turkish troops die in Syria operation; Russian pilot slain
Published On: February 4, 2018 08:22 AM NPT By: Associated Press
BEIRUT, Feb 4: Turkey said eight of its troops were killed Saturday in Ankara’s military operation against a Syrian Kurdish militia, the deadliest day in the two-week-old offensive in the enclave of Afrin, while in another part of Syria, al-Qaida-linked militants downed a Russian fighter jet, then shot and killed the pilot.
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