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At least 3 dead in Tonga’s volcanic eruption, amid severe destruction

Posted on January 19, 2022 by News Desk

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 18 (APP):At least three people have died in Tonga following the massive volcanic eruption and subsequent tsunami wave that hit over the weekend, with homes and other buildings across the archipelago suffering major damage. According to a Tongan government press release on […]

UK freezes BBC funding for two years

Posted on January 18, 2022 by Hooriya Qureshi

London, Jan 17 (AFP/APP):The UK government came under fire on Monday for freezing the BBC licence fee, with critics accusing it of a politically motivated attack to save the prime minister’s job. The Conservatives’ Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries said the £159 ($217, 190-euro) annual fee […]

Israel police in standoff with Palestinians over Jerusalem eviction

Posted on January 18, 2022 by Hooriya Qureshi

Jerusalem, Jan 17 (AFP/APP):Israeli police were in a standoff Monday with a Palestinian man who carried a gas canister onto the roof of his home in a Jerusalem flashpoint district as his family faced eviction. Israeli media reported that Mohammed Salhiya had threatened to set […]

Shock waves, landslides may have caused ‘rare’ volcano tsunami: experts

Posted on January 18, 2022 by News Desk

Paris, Jan 17 (AFP/APP):A rare volcano-triggered tsunami sparked by the eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai in Tonga could have been caused by shock waves or shifting underwater land, experts said Monday. “A volcanic-source tsunami event is rare but not unprecedented,” a post on the website […]

Hundreds of US-bound migrants in caravan stuck at Guatemala border

Posted on January 17, 2022 by News Desk

TEGUCIGALPA Tegucigalpa-January 16 (Online): Hundreds of Hondurans and Nicaraguans on Saturday reached the Guatemalan border but were prevented from crossing by Guatemalan security forces, the first such US-bound migrant caravan to be formed this year in Central America. Some migrants at the Izabel border crossing […]

Sudan revokes licence of Al Jazeera live TV unit

Posted on January 17, 2022 by Hooriya Qureshi

Khartoum, Jan 16 (AFP/APP):Sudan has revoked the licence of Al Jazeera Mubasher, part of the Qatar-based network, accusing it of “unprofessional” TV coverage of anti-coup protests, the channel said Sunday. “The Sudanese authorities announce they revoked the accreditation of Al Jazeera Mubasher and barred its […]

Strong quake rocks northern Greece

Posted on January 17, 2022 by News Desk

Athens, Jan 16 (AFP/APP):A strong 5.4-magnitude earthquake rocked northern Greece on Sunday near the country’s second city of Thessalonica, the National Observatory of Athens said. The epicenter of the quake, which struck at 1150 GMT, was 23 kilometers (14 miles) south west of Orthodox spiritual […]

Monks flee temples in eastern Myanmar amid intense fighting

Posted on January 16, 2022 by Hooriya Qureshi

Yangon, Jan 16 (AFP/APP):Hundreds of Buddhist monks fled two major towns in Myanmar, a witness said Sunday, among thousands recently displaced by intense fighting between the military and rebel groups opposed to last year’s coup. A military power-grab 11 months ago expelled civilian leader Aung […]

North Korea test fired two ballistic missiles

Posted on January 16, 2022 by News Desk

North Korea-January 15 (Online): North Korea has once again test fired two ballistic missiles. In a statement, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the latest launch is strong reaction over the threat for new sanctions by United States. The United States criticised the latest […]

India says cloudy weather led to helicopter crash that killed defense chief