Tweet Washington: Unmanned drones regularly strike suspected militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas, US President Barack Obama confirmed during a video “hangout” on Google’s social network Google+ that was also streamed live on YouTube. Use of the unmanned drones began under former president George W. Bush, BBC reported. There were 118 drone attacks in 2010 and [...]
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Tweet Moscow: A pack of wolves terrorized locals in the streets of a Russian town, not returning to the woods until police opened fire, killing two. The incident took place Monday in Pitkyaranta, a town of 12,000 located near the Finnish border, some 670 km northeast of Moscow, police reported. “A frightened man called police [...]
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Tweet Tehran: Iran will soon stop oil exports to certain members of the European Union (EU), the country’s Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi was quoted by Mehr news agency as saying. “According to the Oil Ministry’s future plans, we will cut our exports to certain countries” in response to the EU’s recent oil embargo against Iran, [...]
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Tweet Washington: As many as 10 people were killed and 18 injured overnight in pileups on a highway in the US state of Florida, due to fog and smoke from a brush fire, media reports said Sunday. Ten people were killed in the crashes, which the Florida Highway Patrol said involved at least 12 passenger [...]
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Tweet Addis Ababa: Tehran is optimistic about the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s visit to the country and the country is ready to reply to any concerns raised by it, said Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi Sunday. “We will eventually show that Iran is a faithful member of the IAEA and shall remain so [...]
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Tweet Beijing:China’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging and battery swapping station has been put into operation in Beijing, Xinhua reported quoting sources in the city’s power supply authorities. Located in the eastern Beijing’s Chaoyang district, the Gaoantun charging station can charge up to eight vehicles simultaneously and it takes only four to six minutes to [...]
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Tweet Jakarta: At least 14 people have been killed and more than 60 injured in a tornado that hit Indonesia this week, the government said Sunday. More than 2,000 houses were damaged by the tornado, Xinhua reported. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, head of public relations at the National Agency for Disaster Management, said 35 regions in [...]
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Tweet Beijing: The best gift a Chinese bachelor thinks he can take home for parents is a bride-to-be. Under parents’ pressure to marry, many young men in China this year took hired women along on their homecoming for the Lunar New Year. Some luckless men without girlfriends preferred hiring women to meet their parents on [...]
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Tweet Washington: The Pentagon has stepped up efforts to make a bomb capable of destroying Iran’s most heavily fortified underground facilities, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. “The 30,000-pound (around 13,600 kg) ‘bunker-buster’ bomb, known as the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), was specifically designed to take out the hardened fortifications built by Iran and North [...]
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Tweet London: Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton, known for her impeccable sense of style, has been named the Hat Person of the Year. The title has been given to her by the Headwear Association, reports contactmusic.com. She beat actor-singer Justin Timberlake for the crown. Middleton takes the title from actor Johnny Depp, who won the [...]
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