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Plane with five Indians onboard crashes in Nepal: Indian embassy issues helpline numbers
After a passenger plane with 72 people onboard, including five Indians, crashed in Nepal on Sunday, the Indian embassy here issued helpline numbers, saying that it is touch with local authorities and monitoring the situation. Helpline numbers issued by the Indian Embassy are Kathmandu: Diwakar Sharma: +977-9851107021 and Pokhara: Lt Col Shashank Tripathi: +977-9856037699
Russian strike in Ukraine's Dnipro: Death toll mounts to 21
Confirming the death toll in Saturday's incident, Dnipro Regional Council Head Mykola Lukashuk posted on Telegram that 73 people were injured while 38 were rescued. Relief and rescue operations are on, Ukrinform reported. In the attack, 72 apartments were destroyed and over 230 damaged in the apartment block, where two sections, from floor 2 to floor 9, were smashed.
Nepal plane crash: 35 killed, three rescued
"However, their identities are not known. Scores of people are feared dead after an ATR 72 aircraft of Yeti Airlines with a call sign 9N-ANC that took off to Pokhara from Kathmandu at 10.32 a.m. crashed at Nayagaun of the city famous among tourists this morning," Guru Datta Dhakal said.
After three years of Covid restrictions, Hong Kong, China resume high speed railway services
At 7:03 a.m. local time, a high-speed train left the Hong Kong West Kowloon Station for Shenzhen, the first of such trains since the pandemic disrupted the cross-border bullet train services, Xinhua News Agency reported. Liao Jun, a student from Jiangxi Province who studies in Hong Kong, was excited to catch the first train back to the mainland.
North Korean nuclear test inevitable, China unwilling and unable to help: Victor Cha
"I think it's inevitable. I think it's seventh nuclear test is inevitable and I think another Hwasong-17 (intercontinental ballistic missile) test using a solid fuel propeller, I think that's inevitable because in the New Year speech, they said that," said Cha, currently a senior vice president and Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank.
Iran summons British envoy to protest UK's interference in its internal affairs
The director general of the Western Europe Department of the Iranian Foreign Ministry delivered to Shercliff Iran's protest against the UK's "acts of sabotage against the Islamic republic of Iran's national security," the ministry said in a statement on its website, Xinhua News Agency reported.
Indian-American named second-in-command at US CDC
"In my new role, I will be honored to serve not just Maine, but the entire nation and carry forward the good work that we have done here. As I prepare for this next step, I thank the people of Maine for taking care of me, as I've always asked them to take care of each other," Nirav D. Shah said in a statement.
Russia to evacuate astronauts from ISS amid emergency
Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin together with NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio will return to Earth aboard the Soyuz MS-23 in the next weeks, which is supposed to dock to the ISS on February 22, Xinhua news agency reported, citing a statement by Russia's space agency Roscosmos.
UK Foreign Secretary banned from entering Russia
In addition to Cleverly, Secretary of State for Leveling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations Michael Gove, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Oliver Dowden, Minister without Portfolio Nadhim Zahawi, and Chief of the General Staff Patrick Sanders are also blacklisted, the ministry's spokesperson Maria Zakharova was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency.
US: Congressmen move to stop insider trading by members
The Bill aims to prevent lawmakers from insider trading through the The Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress Act, or TRUST. This was first introduced in June 2020 and brought back to the House floor in January 2021. However, it never went further than that, media reports said.
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