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S Sudan plane crash leaves 20 dead

JUBA, Jan 29 (AFP): A plane has crashed in the north of South Sudan killing at least 20 people, Unity state minister for information said Wednesday.The aircraft came down near the oil fields in Unity State at around 10:30 am local time (0830 GMT) shortly after taking off for the...

Kyiv not willing to hold talks: Putin

MOSCOW, Jan 29 (Reuters): Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Ukraine could find a legal way to hold peace talks with Russia on ending their nearly three-year-old war, but Moscow sees no willingness on Kyiv's part to engage.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky immediately dismissed Putin's statements questioning his legitimacy,...

15 perish in India stampede at largest Hindu festival

PRAYAGRAJ, Jan 29 (AFP): A stampede at the world's largest religious gathering in India killed at least 15 people with many more injured, a doctor at the Kumbh Mela festival told AFP Wednesday.Deadly crowd crushes are a notorious feature of Indian religious festivals and the Kumbh Mela, with its unfathomable...

Israeli forces kill 2 in West Bank raids

RAMALLAH, Jan 29 (AFP): The Palestinian health ministry said on Wednesday that Israeli forces killed two people in separate overnight raids in the occupied West Bank, including one in Jenin, where the Israeli military is conducting a major offensive. The Ramallah-based ministry said in a statement that a 25-year-old man...

Americans sour on some of Trump's early moves

NEW YORK, Jan 29 (Reuters): Americans have a dim view of some of President Donald Trump's early barrage of executive orders, including his attempt to do away with so-called birthright citizenship and his decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.Since taking office on Jan. 20, the...

Support for Brexit sinks to lowest level in UK

LONDON, Jan 29 (AFP): Only 30 percent of Britons still believe the UK made the right decision to leave the European Union, the lowest figure recorded by pollsters since shortly after the 2016 Brexit referendum, a YouGov poll showed on Wednesday.Five years after Britain formally left the bloc on January...

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AI can identify women at risk of breastcancer years in advance: studyOSLO, Jan 29: Artificial intelligence is able to identify women who have an elevated risk of developing breast cancer several years before it is diagnosed, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) said on Tuesday. Five researchers from FHI,...