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PARIS, August 24 (Internews): It wasn’t just your carousell, worldwide baggage handling rates were at their worst in a decade last year. Mishandling rates reached a 10-year-high at the end of 2022 as airports and airline workers scrambled to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. 2022 […]

TOKYO, August 24 (Internews): The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it began releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean a controversial step, but a milestone in Japan’s battle with the growing radioactive water stockpile. In […]

Arbil, Iraq, Aug 24 (AFP/APP): Three members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed Thursday in a Turkish drone strike in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, authorities said. “A Turkish army drone struck a PKK vehicle, killing an official and two fighters” of the group — […]

SOUTH KOREA, August 24 (Internews): South Korean Joint Chief of Staff said Thursday that the military detected a North Korean projectile likely a space rocket as Pyongyang earlier indicated Japanese Coast Guards about firing a satellite into space once again. In a statement to reporters, […]

ISLAMABAD, AUG 24 (ONLINE): Pakistan’s Ambassador to United States Masood Khan has strongly condemned the horrendous incidents of Jaranwala and said that perpetrators of this heinous crime would be brought to justice. Addressing leaders of all faiths and denominations in Washington, he said that entire […]

Tokyo, Aug 23 (AFP/APP): Final preparations to discharge waste water from the crippled Fukushima power plant in Japan were under way Wednesday, its operator said, a day before the scheduled release into the Pacific Ocean. Tokyo had announced on Tuesday that the operation would begin […]

Bangkok, Aug 23 (AFP/APP): Thailand’s former premier Thaksin Shinawatra was moved from prison to a police hospital on Wednesday, officials said, a day after he was jailed on his return from 15 years in exile. The 74-year-old, twice Thai prime minister and ousted in a […]