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Guatemalan boy dies in US custody

TEXAS, Dec 26 (Agencies): An eight-year-old boy from Guatemala has died in US government custody, officials say, the second migrant child to die in US detention this month.The border agency says the boy died on Monday night hours after showing signs of illness. A Texas congressman named him as Felipe...

Putin oversees test launch of hypersonic weapon

MOSCOW, Dec 26 (AP): The Kremlin says the Russian military has successful tested a new hypersonic glide vehicle.It said Russian President Vladimir Putin oversaw the test launch of the Avangard vehicle from the Defence Ministry's control room.In Wednesday' test, the weapon was launched from the Dombarovskiy missile base in the...

Indonesia asks people to avoid coast near volcano

JAKARTA, Dec 26 (AP): Indonesian authorities asked people to avoid the coast in areas where a tsunami killed more than 420 people last weekend in a fresh warning issued on the anniversary of the catastrophic 2004 Asian earthquake and tsunami.The big waves that followed the eruption of Anak Krakatoa, or...

Traffickers free Argentine woman after 32 years

LA PAZ , Dec 26 (BBC): An Argentine woman seized in the 1980s by people traffickers has been reunited with her family in a joint operation by Argentine and Bolivian police.The whereabouts of the woman, who is now 45, had been unknown until earlier this year when police received a...

Indian govt hospital gives HIV-blood to pregnant woman

NEW DELHI, Dec 26 (Xinhua): A 24-year-old pregnant woman in southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu was found infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) after infected blood was pumped into her during a blood transfusion at a government-run hospital, officials said on Wednesday.The incident took place at a hospital in...

Congo delays polls for months in Ebola zone

KINSHASA, Dec 26 (AP): Congo's already long-delayed election set for Sunday will be postponed for months in certain communities where a deadly Ebola virus outbreak has infected hundreds of people, the country's electoral commission announced on Wednesday.Some in the opposition quickly called it a ploy to hurt their chances at...

Rescuers recover missing toddler's body in Thailand

BANGKOK, Dec 26 (AP): The search for a missing two-year-old boy in which even elephants were employed ended grimly on Tuesday with the discovery of the toddler's body in a sugarcane plantation in central Thailand.Suphan Buri provincial governor Nimit Wanchaithanawong said the boy's body was found around five kilometers (three...

Fourteen die in Afghan clashes

MAIMANA, Dec 26 (Xinhua): Two Afghan army soldiers and 12 Taliban militants have been killed in clashes in northern province of Faryab overnight, authorities said on Wednesday.In one incident, eight militants and two Afghan National Army troops lost their lives after soldiers fought back on attackers on security checkpoints in...

152 Vietnamese tourists ‘missing’ in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Dec 26 (BBC): The Taiwanese authorities are searching for 152 Vietnamese people who arrived on tourist visas last week and have since gone missing.The tourists arrived in the southern city of Kaohsiung on 21 and 23 December, but all but one appear to have absconded, officials say.Local media reports...

Warsaw fire leaves six people dead

WARSAW, Dec 26 (Xinhua): Six people were killed in a fire in Warsaw, said a spokesman of Poland's State Fire Service (PSP) on Wednesday.A small wooden building caught fire on Tuesday night in Warsaw's Zeran district, with the whole building was covered by fire when the first units of the...

News in Brief (27-12-2018)

Suicide attack on Pakistanis kills sixKABUL, Dec 26: An Afghan official says a suicide bomber disguised as a beggar has killed six people in a wealthy subdivision of the southern city of Kandahar. Mohammad Yousof Younosi, a provincial council member, says the attack on Tuesday happened a block away from...