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Makhachkala, Aug 15 (UNI) The number of those injured in an explosion at a gas station in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, has risen to 66, Russian First Deputy Health Minister Viktor Fisenko said. “A total of 66 injured people, 10 of them in serious condition, are in Makhachkala’s medical institutions. Doctors are now fighting…
Buenos Aires, (UNI) A far-right Argentine presidential candidate, libertarian economist Javier Milei, has surprised many by winning the primaries, with his opponents close behind, voting results showed on Monday. Argentina’s presidential election is scheduled for October 22. The main contenders for the presidency are Sergio Massa, the incumbent economy minister running for the ruling Union…
Islamabad, Aug 15 (UNI) Two people were killed and 85 others injured in separate incidents of firing by residents of Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi to celebrate the country’s 77th Independence Day on Monday, police and hospital administration said. The killed included a man and woman who received stray bullets which were fired in…
Moscow, Aug 14 (UNI) The scientific devices of Russia’s Luna-25 lunar mission went activate and carried out their first measurements on Sunday, the Russian space corporation Roscosmos said. The first lunar mission in Russia’s post-Soviet space history launched on Friday and is scheduled to land on the Moon on August 21. “Today the scientific equipment,…
Tehran, Aug 14 (UNI) Iran’s Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi has ordered an investigation into the deadly shooting at a prominent Shiite shrine in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, Iranian media report. The minister called Mohammad Hadi Imaniyeh, the provincial governor, to urge him to do what it takes to find those responsible for the…
Kiev, Aug 14 (UNI) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Kiev is responsible for the latest attempted attack on the Crimean Bridge. On Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Ukraine tried to attack the bridge with an S-200 missile modified to hit ground-based targets, but it was shot down and no damage was reported. Traffic…
Kiev, Aug 14 (UNI) Air raid warnings were issued in several regions of Ukraine late on Sunday night, according to air raid data from the country’s Ministry of Digital Transformation. Air raid sirens sounded in Ukraine’s regions of Sumy, Mykolaiv, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, Kharkiv, Odesa and Poltava, as well as Kiev-controlled parts of Kherson region,…
Washington, Aug 14 (UNI) Five people were killed and three others injured after a house explosion in U.S. Pennsylvania on Saturday, authorities said on Sunday. First responders from the police and fire department arrived on scene after a report of the house explosion in Plum, a borough in western Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County at around 10:23…
Washington, Aug 14 (UNI) A MiG-23 fighter plane has crashed during an air show in the US state of Michigan, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) informs. “NTSB investigating the Aug. 13 crash of a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 near Ypsilanti, Michigan,” the safety board said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on…
Dhaka, (UNI) Two incidents of bird strikes have occurred at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, but no casualties have been reported. A flight of the national flag-carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines on the Dhaka-Bangkok route aborted take-off as a bird strike caused one of its tyres to burst on Saturday. Passengers…
