Category: WORLD

The US, which has less than five per cent of the world’s population, has between 35 to 50 per cent of the world’s civilian-owned guns. America also has the highest homicide-by-firearm rate among the world’s most developed nations. 17 people have been killed in Florida after a gunman opened fire on a local high school.Police say the suspect is 19-year-old Nikolas Cruzwho was expelled from high school for disciplinary problems. He was taken into custody shortly after the shooting.The gunman, armed with a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle, a gas mask, smoke grenades and…

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A Russian plane has crashed with at least 65 passengers and six crew members on board. MOSCOW: All 71 people aboard a Saratov Airlines plane died when the plane crashed southeast of Moscow on Sunday.An emergency services source told Tass news agency there are no survivors. Witnesses in the village told local media they saw a burning plane falling from the sky. It is not immediately clear what caused the crash, with weather conditions and pilot error said to be among the possible reasons. The Russian-made AN-148 was seven-years-old and…

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The demonstration outside Cornwall’s largest hospital was part of a national day of action against cuts to the national health service. LONDON: Thousands of people marched through central London on Saturday in support of the country’s embattled National Health Service (NHS), which is straining under the weight of winter demand. Protesters carrying placards reading “NHS not for sale”, and “Hands off our NHS”, braved the cold and rain to demand that the government pump more money into the system, and roll back the influence of the private sector in the public-funded…

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At least 41 people have died and dozens more are injured after a fire broke out at a hospital in South Korea. South Korea is set to hold the Winter Olympics from February 9 to 25. The six-storey structure housed a nursing home as well as the hospital, and the National Fire Agency said 41 people had been killed, with 13 critically injured.] Video footage and pictures showed the building engulfed by heavy dark smoke and surrounded by multiple fire trucks. A National Fire Agency spokesman said the death toll could…

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Heavy snow has left up to 13,000 tourists stranded at one of Switzerland’s best-known ski resorts. Heavy snowfall has cut off many villages and resorts across the Alps, trapping some 13,000 tourists at Zermatt, one of Switzerland’s most popular ski stations, officials said Tuesday. Switzerland is a landlocked country geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, spanning an area of 41,285 km2. While the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory.Switzerland is one of the most developed countries in the world. Zermatt is home to some 5,500 inhabitants and has the capacity…

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The storm approached the western island of Palawan, a popular tourist draw, late Saturday and swept into the South China Sea before dawn, the state weather service said. MANILA: Around 200 people have been killed in the southern Philippines after a tropical storm battered the archipelago nation’s second-largest island, triggering heavy flooding and landslides that have ravaged towns and displaced tens of thousands. Police said 144 people remained missing while more than 40,000 had fled to evacuation camps as Tembin roared out into the South China Sea early Sunday. Tropical…

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WannaCry was one of the fastest-spreading and damaging cyber attacks to-date, affecting at least 300,000 computers across 150 countries. The US administration has said North Korea was “directly responsible” for the WannaCry malware attack affecting hospitals, businesses and banks across the world earlier this year. The WannaCry attack was widespread and cost billions, and North Korea is directly responsible,” Thomas P. Bossert, Trump’s homeland security adviser, said in an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal on Monday. North Korean government representatives could not be immediately reached for comment. The country has repeatedly denied…

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Saleh’s death seems likely to inflame what has become a proxy war in Yemen between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Yemen’s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed by Houthi rebels near the capital, Sanaa.Sanaa’s Houthi-controlled Interior Ministry announced the veteran Yemeni leader’s death in a statement. “The militias of treason are finished and their leader has been killed,” the statement said. Saleh’s body was brought back to the capital and has been handed over to the leadership of his party, the General People’s Congress.Two days earlier, Saleh announced he was breaking…

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NEW DELHI: World AIDS Day is observed on December 1 every year. The day is dedicated to spreading awareness about the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) which is spread by infection from a virus called human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). To complement the global World AIDS Day 2017 campaign which promotes the theme “Right to health”, the World Health Organization will highlight the need for all 36.7 million people living with HIV and those who are vulnerable and affected by the epidemic, to reach the goal of universal health coverage. Under the…

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Indonesia lies on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent volcanic and seismic activity. The volcano’s alert was raised to the highest level earlier Monday and ash clouds have forced the closure of Bali’s international airport. Bali’s airport has been closed as a result of the increased warning level, according to Agoes Soebagio, an official at the Transportation Ministry. Indonesia’s Disaster Mitigation Agency says as many as 100,000 villagers need to leave the expanded danger zone around the Mount Agung volcano on Bali. According to the…

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