Tweet Moscow: A Russian battalion commander who died after diving on a grenade to protect others has been posthumously awarded the country’s highest honour, the “Hero of the Russian Federation”. According to the Kremlin website, Major Sergei Solnechnikov pushed a soldier away from a grenade and threw himself over it after it bounced back into [...]
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Tweet Moscow: A Russian has been sentenced to 15 months behind bars after his dog accidentally triggered a shot from his rifle that killed a friend on a hunting trip. Igor Solomin, 44, was jailed after his dog fired the shot from a hunting rifle when he and his friends were driving in a woodland [...]
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Tweet Baghdad: A television presenter working for a channel in Iraq was killed when a sticky bomb attached to his car blew up, Xinhua reported. Kamiran Salahudin, presenter for Salahudin Channel, was killed when the bomb detonated late Monday while he was driving in Salahudin province capital Tikrit, Baghdad-based media watchdog Journalistic Freedom Observatory said. [...]
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Tweet Berlin: huge explosion rocked a chemical industrial park in Marl in western Germany, leaving one or two workers injured and three missing, police said Saturday. Marl police confirmed a pressure vessel in the park blew up at 13:36 local time (1136 GMT), reported Xinua. Three staff members were missing, police spokesman Michael Franz told [...]
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Tweet Tegucigalpa: Twenty inmates of a jail in northern Honduras died Thursday when fights broke out over control of the prison cells. One of the victims was decapitated and his head was tossed over the wall of the jail in San Pedro Sula city, coordinator of the public prosecutor’s office Marely Banegas said. After the [...]
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Tweet Washington: Half of all US households own at least one Apple product, a survey has showed. According to CNBC’s All-America Economic survey released Wednesday, the Apple-buying household on average has a total of three Apple products. Overall, the average household has 1.6 Apple devices with almost one quarter planning to buy at least one [...]
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Tweet Washington:The fate of President Barack Obama’s signature federal healthcare overhaul hangs in balance with the US Supreme Court wrapping up a historic hearing with an apparent ideological divide among conservative and liberal judges. In six hours of hearings spread over three days, the Supreme Court heard arguments on one of the most controversial issues [...]
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Tweet Abidjan: At least 30 people died in the west African nation of Cote d’Ivoire Tuesday when two buses collided head-on. The accident took place near the central city of Bouake. Many others were injured. The driver of one of the buses lost control of the vehicle after a tyre exploded, Xinhua reported. Related News [...]
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Tweet London: Various teenagers in Britain are being locked up alongside potentially dangerous adults in mental hospitals following a crisis in health services for the young, the Daily Express reported Sunday. According to the report, the Under-18s with mental health problems spent equivalent of 5,166 nights in adult psychiatric wards last year, despite laws introduced [...]
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Tweet Ramallah: The Palestinian leadership is looking forward to gain declarations of full Arab political and financial support for their cause in the Arab League annual summit due to be held in Baghdad March 29, a senior Palestinian official said Sunday. Despite the concerns that the Arab summit this year will be more involved in [...]
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