17-01-2023 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Five months after setting out from the tip of Australia, marathon runner Erchana Murray-Bartlett has reached the country’s southern edge. The 32-year-old on Monday finished her 6,300km (3,900 miles) journey, a marathon every day for 150 days. Murray-Bartlett’s effort sets a new world record for the …
Read More »Gunmen kill former Afghan MP at home in Kabul
17-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A former Afghan Member Parliament (MP) and her bodyguard have been shot dead at her home in the capital Kabul, Afghan police have said. Mursal Nabizada, 32, was one of the few female MPs who stayed in Kabul after the Taliban seized power …
Read More »California hit with one final round of storms
17-01-2023 LOS ANGELES: California has been hit by a final round of storms, bringing more rain and snow to a state already reeling from destructive flooding, heavy snowfall and at least 19 deaths. Storms have battered the state in recent weeks, flooding communities and forcing evacuations. The scale of the …
Read More »Romanian police widen investigation into Andrew Tate
17-01-2023 BUCHAREST: Romanian police are expanding their investigation into former kickboxing champion Andrew Tate, seizing a fleet of luxury cars from his Bucharest compound over the weekend, and raiding seven more properties including a newly renovated villa beneath the Carpathian Mountains. The sight of Tate’s shiny dove-grey Porsche perched delicately …
Read More »Italy’s most-wanted mafia boss arrested in Sicily
17-01-2023 ROME/ SICILY: Italy’s most-wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has been arrested in Sicily after 30 years on the run. Messina Denaro was reportedly detained in a private clinic in Sicily’s capital, Palermo. He is alleged to be a boss of the notorious Cosa Nostra mafia. Italian media reported …
Read More »Martin Luther King’s dream still not achieved: Biden
17-01-2023 ATLANTA: Speaking at Martin Luther King Jr.’s church on Sunday, President Joe Biden said the US civil rights leader’s dream of racial equality and justice had not yet come true and renewed his call to fight for the soul of America. Biden spoke at the very church that King, …
Read More »Man arrested after uranium found at Heathrow Airport
17-01-2023 LONDON: A man in his 60s has been arrested in connection with an investigation linked to the discovery of traces of uranium found in a cargo package at London’s Heathrow Airport, the UK Metropolitan Police said on Sunday. The man was arrested on suspicion of a terror offence on …
Read More »“No room” in New York for migrants: Mayor
17-01-2023 NEW YORK/ LOS ANGELES: The mayor of New York travelled to the Mexican border city of El Paso on Sunday and declared that “there is no room in New York” for busloads of migrants being sent to America’s most populous city. Eric Adams, a Democrat, was also critical of …
Read More »Black boxes of aircraft in deadly Nepal crash found
17-01-2023 KATHMANDU: Searchers on Monday found both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from a passenger flight that crashed on Sunday, killing at least 68 people in Nepal’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years, officials said. The data on the recorders may help investigators determine what caused the …
Read More »CS, DGP review arrangements for Kanti Velugu
Hyderabad, Jan.16 (PMI): Chief Secretary Santhi Kumari along with DGP Anjani Kumar on Monday held a video conference with District Collectors, CPs/SPs, medical and other department officials and took stock of the arrangements made for the second phase of Kanti Velugu programme which is to be launched by Chief Minister …
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