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Miami-bound passenger storms cockpit in Honduras, causing flight delay

Of the thousands of cancellations and delays of airline flights in the past month, most have been caused by Covid-19 outbreaks or perilous weather. But a flight from Honduras to Miami on Tuesday was delayed for a more novel reason - a passenger stormed the cockpit and apparently tried to climb out a...

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UN seeks huge aid increase to prevent ‘catastrophe’ in Afghanistan

The United Nations made what it described Tuesday as its biggest appeal ever for a single country, asking international donors to give more than US$5 billion (S$6.77 billion) to Afghanistan to fend off a humanitarian disaster.Five months after the Taliban seized power, a severe drought and the cumul...

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Russia positioning helicopters, in possible sign of Ukraine plans

The number of Russian troops at Ukraine's border has remained steady in recent weeks, despite US intelligence predictions of a surge, but US officials say that President Vladimir Putin has begun taking steps to move military helicopters into place, a possible sign that planning for an attack con...

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Surge in hospitalisation of kids infected with Covid in US

The number of hospitalised young children infected with the coronavirus rose precipitously last week to the highest levels since the beginning of the pandemic, according to data released on Friday by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The increase was observed in children who were ...

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In Kazakhstan’s street battles,signs of elites fighting each other

It came as no big surprise when a crumbling oil town in western Kazakhstan stirred in protest last Sunday 10 years after security forces there killed more than a dozen workers who had gone on strike over pay and poor conditions.But it remains a mystery how peaceful protests over a rise in fuel price...

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Colorado residents ponder the road ahead after wildfires

Ms Kathe Perez can barely process what she lost in the incineration of the three-bedroom home she's lived in for the past three decades."I haven't slept for three nights," she said Sunday (Jan 2). "I can't stop crying. I can't talk. I feel in a daze. My soul is crushed...

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NY sees 85,000 C-19 cases highest one-day total

New York State recorded more than 85,000 new coronavirus cases on the last day of 2021, the highest one-day total in the state since the pandemic began, officials announced on Saturday.The number of positive test results - 85,476, or roughly 22 per cent of the total tests reported by the state - onc...

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Gunman kills 4 in Colorado before he’s fatally shot by police

Four people were fatally shot and a police officer and two other people were injured on Monday night in the Denver area by what appeared to be a lone gunman, who was later killed after a shoot-out, the police said.The killings unfolded across several locations in and around Colorado's capital an...

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No breakthrough in Ukraine tensions

President Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin were still far apart after two hours of talks on the escalating crisis caused by Russia’s massing of tens of thousands of troops near its border with Ukraine.Biden delivered a simple message during Tuesday’s video call with Putin: invade Ukraine aga...

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Spike in Omicron variant cases puts Europe on edge

Dozens of new cases of the Omicron variant were reported in Britain and Denmark on Sunday, adding to increases across Europe and fuelling fears that the virus has already spread widely.The coronavirus variant has spread to at least 45 nations worldwide, with the United States and much of Europe repo...

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Canadian senator dies of Covid-19

Ms Josee Forest-Niesing, a Canadian senator from Ontario, died shortly after she went home from a hospital where she had been treated for Covid-19, Canadian officials said on Saturday . She was 56.In a statement issued on her behalf on Nov 16, just days after her return home from the hospital last S...

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Germany, France slam Russia for satellite strike

Germany's government said on Tuesday it was very concerned by Russia's destruction of one of its own satellites during a missile test, calling for urgent measures to strengthen security and confidence."We call on all states to engage constructively in this process and in the development...

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Biden admin plans wind farms along US coastline

The Biden administration on Wednesday (Oct 13) announced a plan to develop large-scale wind farms along nearly the entire coastline of the United States, the first long-term strategy from the government to produce electricity from offshore turbines.Speaking at a wind power industry conference in Bos...

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Most abortions in Texas are banned again after court ruling

A federal appeals court panel reinstated Texas' restrictive abortion law late on Friday (Oct 8), temporarily restoring a ban on virtually all procedures that had been blocked by a lower court two days earlier in a case brought by the Biden administration.The decision, by three judges on the...

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Trudeau seeks a fresh start, but many voters see a power grab

Outside a TV studio in a Vancouver, British Columbia, suburb where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada was recording an interview days before the country's election, a man shouted insults, mostly obscene, about Mr Trudeau and his family while blasting Twisted Sister's "We're Not...