India wants to avoid any "further escalation of the situation" after conducting "pre-emptive" air strikes against militant camps in Pakistani territory, foreign minister Sushma Swaraj said on Wednesday, reports AFP.The incursion across the ceasefire line that divides Kashmir came after New Delhi threatened retaliation over the February 14 suicide bombing...
Read moreJAKARTA, Feb 27 (AP): The collapse of an unlicensed gold mine in Indonesia buried dozens of people, and rescuers dug desperately with their bare hands and farm tools on Wednesday to unearth victims calling for help from beneath the rubble.National disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said three people were...
Read moreTOKYO, Feb 27 (BBC): A baby boy who weighed just 268g (9.45oz) at birth has been released from hospital in Japan, and is believed to be the smallest boy in the world to be sent home healthy.The baby was born by emergency C-section in August, and was so small he...
Read moreABUJA, Feb 27 (AP): Nigeria's president was declared the clear winner of a second term in Africa's largest democracy early Wednesday, after a campaign in which he urged voters to give him another chance to tackle gaping corruption, widespread insecurity and an economy limping back from a rare recession.While many...
Read moreJERUSALEM, Feb 27 (Al Jazeera): Israeli police arrested Adnan Ghaith, the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem, in a dawn raid on Wednesday, according to a local NGO and local media."The governor was arrested in a raid on his home in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan," the Palestinian Prisoners Society said in...
Read moreKATHMANDU, Feb 27 (AP): A helicopter with six people on board including Nepal's tourism minister crashed in bad weather Wednesday in the country's mountainous region, officials said.Government administrator Gita Kamari Rai said the helicopter went down on a mountain and rescuers were making their way there on foot. Some villagers...
Read moreCAIRO, Feb 27 (Xinhua): At least 20 people were killed and more than 40 others wounded when a fire erupted inside the main train station in the city center of Egypt's capital Cairo on Wednesday, state-run Nile TV reported.The blaze broke out as a train crashed into the pavement, the...
Read moreChinese scientists designpower generating fabric BEIJING, Feb 27: Chinese scientists have developed a kind of flexible and washable power-generating fabric that can be used as smart clothing for wearable electronics. The increasing popularity of wearable electronic devices has called for improvement in their energy supply systems, as traditional systems such...
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