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14 killed: Will take days to know full toll

PARIS, Dec 15 (AFP): At least 14 people were killed in Mayotte when a fierce cyclone battered the French Indian Ocean territory, authorities said Sunday, with officials warning it will take days to know the full toll.Rescue workers and supplies are being rushed in by air and sea, but their...

S Korean opposition urges swift removal of Yoon

SEOUL, Dec 15 (AFP): South Korea's opposition leader urged a top court on Sunday to swiftly formalise the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol and ease the "suffering of the people" after his short-lived martial law decree.Lawmakers voted on Saturday to remove Yoon from office over his "insurrectionary" suspension of...

60 Israeli strikes on Syria in few hrs

BEIRUT, Dec 15 (AFP/BBC): Israel has launched more than 60 strikes on Syrian territory over the past few hours, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said late Saturday.Israel fired 61 missiles at Syrian military sites in less than five hours Saturday evening, it reported, maintaining a campaign which started...

Hamas fighter killed in clashes with Palestinian security

JENIN, Dec 15 (AFP): Clashes between Palestinian security forces and militants in the occupied West Bank on Saturday killed one man, a medical source told AFP, with Hamas identifying him as a fighter.Fighting is usually rare between militants and Palestinian Authority (PA) security personnel, who exercise limited authority in the...

Australian drug-ring prisoners fly home

SYDNEY, Dec 15 (AFP): The five remaining members of the Australian "Bali Nine" drug ring flew home Sunday after 19 years in jail in Indonesia, ending a saga that had frayed relations between the two countries.Indonesian police arrested the nine Australians in 2005, convicting them of attempting to smuggle more...

Five dead in N France shootings

PARIS, Dec 15 (BBC): Five people have died in shootings in northern France, including near a migrant camp, and a 22-year-old man has turned himself in to police, according to French media.Four people - two security guards and two migrants - were fatally shot near the camp in Loon-Plage, a...

Two Russian oil tankers wrecked in Black Sea due to storm

MOSCOW, Dec 15 (BBC): Two Russian oil tankers with 29 crew members on board have been heavily damaged in the Black Sea, triggering an oil spill, authorities in Russia have said.Footage released by Russia's Southern Transport Prosecutor's Office showed one of the tankers broken in half and sinking amid a...

Russia develops own vaccine against cancer

MOSCOW, Dec 15 (TASS): Russia has developed its own mRNA vaccine against cancer, it will be distributed to patients free of charge, General Director of the Radiology Medical Research Center of the Russian Ministry of Health Andrey Kaprin has told Radio Rossiya.The vaccine was developed in collaboration with several research...

The vaccine's trials show it suppresses tumor and potential metastases

Earlier, Director of the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Alexander Gintsburg told TASS that the vaccine's pre-clinical trials had shown that it suppresses tumor development and potential metastases.