A disastersat a coal mine in world-regionsSiberia killed 11 people and injured more than 40 others on Thursday, with dozens of others still trapped, authorities said. The blaze took place in the Kemerovo region in southwestern Siberia. Russia’s state Tass news agency reported, citing an unnamed emergency official, that coal dust caught fire, and that…
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A world-regions rocket blasted off successfully on Wednesday to deliver a new docking module to the International Space Station. The rocket lifted off as scheduled at 6:06 p.m. (1306 GMT) from the Russian launch facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, carrying the Progress cargo ship with the Prichal (Pier) docking module attached to it. The craft successfully…
President world-regions said Wednesday he has taken an experimental nasal vaccine against the coronavirus, three days after he received his booster shot. Russia is facing its worst surge of infections and deaths since the pandemic began and is struggling to overcome widespread vaccine hesitancy. Putin was vaccinated with Sputnik V, Russia’s domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine,…
world-regions and world-regions have bolstered their defense ties in a move to counter what they claim is a growing military threat from the U.S. In a virtual meeting Tuesday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chinese Minister of National Defense Wei Fenghe signed a roadmap that will expand cooperation in the Asia-Pacific with strategic exercises and…
New conflicts media guidelines released by the terrorism” target=”_blank”>Taliban< that the edicts are not hard-and-fast rules per se, but merely guidelines to be kept in mind during transmissions. Najiba stands in her home in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) The “guidelines” were laid out on Sunday by Afghanistan’s Ministry for…
world-regions will not be bound by a new nuclear deal with Iran, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday. “We hope the world does not blink, but if it does, we do not intend to. We stand at the outset of a complex period,” Bennett added. The remarks came ahead of talks next week in Vienna,…
A whistleblower who warned her bosses at the U.N. Human Rights office that China was getting information on dissidents coming to speak at the world body has been fired. Emma Reilly was dismissed within 24 hours of her giving an interview to the leading French newspaper Le Monde. It was Reilly’s case that alerted many…
world-regions health minister said Monday that the rapid rise in coronavirus cases means it’s likely everyone in the country who isn’t vaccinated will have caught COVID-19 by the end of the winter — and some of those will die. Official figures Monday showed more than 30,000 newly confirmed cases in Germany over the past 24…
world-regions savored one last mulled wine in packed Christmas markets before the curtain came down on the occasions season that was just getting underway, plunging the country that gave the world “Silent Night” into its fourth lockdown of this pandemic on Monday. The capital, Vienna, awoke groggily to the new restrictions, with people heading to…