In a tragic incident, two Indian sailors were killed and several others are reported missing after a Panamanian-flagged tanker caught fire off the UAE’s coast on Wednesday, a media report said. The Federal Authority for Land and Maritime Transport said the fire broke out on board the tanker 21 miles off the UAE coast on …
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Processing the ever-growing plastic waste has always been a multi-faced challenge. One of them is about how to put it to the best use and make an impact from it. Around the world, most of the plastic waste processing has been focused on recycling or downcycling by which the discarded plastic is used as raw materials to make a range …
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Jump To Child prisoners of the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz French policemen guarding the transit camp where Jewish people were placed under their supervision before being transported to concentration camps Jewish people arriving at the transit camp from where they were to be transported to concentration camps Jewish people arrive at the transit camp of Pithiviers Jewish children and women getting …
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Today, the world marks 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz death camp. On the International Holocaust Memorial Day 2020, the world stopped to remember one of the darkest periods in the history of humankind. A dwindling number of elderly Holocaust survivors gathered at the former German Nazi death camp on Monday to honour its more than 1.1 million mostly Jewish victims …
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The UN aviation watchdog will join the investigation into the crash of the Ukrainian airliner in Iran that killed all the 176 people on board. Minutes after the Ukrainian flight PS752 took off from Tehran last week, it came crashing down killing all the passengers and crew. Among those killed were dozens of Iranians and Canadians. The flight was headed …
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Tourists and firefighters were forced to flee vast fires burning in southeastern Australia on Monday, as a heatwave rekindled devastating bush blazes across the country. Authorities said “quite a number” of the 30,000 tourists visiting the usually picturesque southeast tip of the continent had heeded calls to evacuate. According to news agency AFP, more than a dozen blazes are raging …
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Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris was unable to hold Christmas Eve Mass for the first time in more than 200 years — after a fire ravaged its structure in April. With heavy hearts, French Catholics instead gathered at the nearby church of Saint-Germain l’Auxerrois, a few hundred metres away, for a service celebrated by the cathedral’s rector Patrick Chauvet. AFP “It …
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Just last month, a massive fire that was caused by a cooking gas stove erupted on a train travelling in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province and killed at least 62 passengers. Death toll in Tezzgam Train fire over 60…Pakistan pic.twitter.com/IB8zec4vcQ — AMITA NANDAL (@amitanandal88) October 31, 2019 People across the world woke up to the sad news and expressed their grief and condolences …
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Cancer has been one of the most dreaded diseases in recent times. Millions of lives are lost on a yearly basis and researchers try their best to find a cure for the deadly life-threatening disease. In a major breakthrough now, scientists have now created a new cowpox-style virus in a bid to completely cure cancer, a report in the Dailymail …
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The United States has formally notified the United Nations that it was withdrawing from the Paris climate accord. This makes the world’s largest economy the sole outlier from the key agreement. News agency AFP reported that US President Donald Trump went ahead with the pullout despite mounting evidence of the reality and impact of climate change, with September the fourth …
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