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Fears of new wave as volcano surges again in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Dec 24 (Agencies): Coastal residents near Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano have been warned to keep away from beaches amid fears it could trigger a new tsunami.On Saturday, giant waves crashed into coastal towns on the islands of Sumatra and Java, killing at least 281 people and injuring 1,016.It is...

Land mines will be hidden killer in Yemen after war

ADEN, Dec 24 (AP): They lurk under shifting desert sands, amid the debris of urban roadsides and inside abandoned schools, some set to go off at the lightest touch.Land mines scattered by Yemen's Houthi rebels are largely unmapped and will remain a threat even if the latest push for peace...

Artiste plays guitar during surgery

DURBAN, Dec 24 (Reuters): South African jazz artiste Musa Manzini has played his music all over the world, but one performance stands out - strumming his guitar while surgeons operated on his brain.A video of the multi-instrumentalist and university lecturer taken during the six-hour surgery for a brain tumour, shows...

Iran ready to respond to any hostile US act

TEHRAN, Dec 24 (Reuters): Iran said on Monday it was ready to respond to any hostile US action, but it did not consider the arrival of a US aircraft carrier in the Gulf last week as a significant threat.The USS John C. Stennis entered the Gulf on Friday, ending a...

Christmas joy missing in Syria town

ARBIN, Dec 24 (AFP): With Christmas approaching, Nabil al-Aash dusts off religious books as he attempts to tidy up the war-scarred Saint George Church in the town of Arbin, northeast of the Syrian capital Damascus.Retaken in the spring by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad during a brutal offensive to...

S Korea to hold talks with DPRK on antiviral medication

SEOUL, Dec 24 (Xinhua): South Korea will hold a working-level discussion with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) later this week on providing antiviral medication, Seoul's unification ministry said on Monday.Baik Tae-hyun, unification ministry spokesman, told a press briefing that Tamiflu, the antiviral medication, and early detection kits would...

News in Brief (25-12-2018)

Sending human‘to Mars wouldbe stupid’LONDON, Dec 24: One of the first men to orbit the Moon has told BBC Radio 5 Live that it's "stupid" to plan human missions to Mars. Bill Anders, lunar module pilot of Apollo 8, the first human spaceflight to leave Earth's orbit, said sending crews...