GUWAHATI, India, July 6, (APP/AFP) – The death toll from worsening monsoon floods in India’s Assam state has hit 18 with hundreds of thousands in makeshift camps and no letup in the deluge, officials said Thursday. “Monsoons are still ongoing. There are fresh developments every hour,” Rajib Prakash Barua, a senior Assam State Disaster Management […]
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Flood death toll worsens in India’s Assam
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Tesla Model S fall short in crash test yet again
WASHINGTON, July 6 (APP/AFP): In another setback for the high-flying electric carmaker, Tesla’s Model S once again fell short of the top rating in a key crash test, an independent testing agency said Thursday. On the eve of seeing its first mass-market Model 3 roll off the assembly line, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety […]
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G20 host Hamburg braces for ‘Welcome to Hell’ protest
HAMBURG, July 6 (APP/AFP): Germany’s G20 summit host city Hamburg braced for a potentially violent “Welcome to Hell” protest Thursday by anti-capitalist militants as tensions rise in the lead-up to the power meet. Riot police used water cannon and pepper spray to clear an unauthorised protest camp in ugly scenes Tuesday night, leaving five people […]
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Vietnamese to be able to visit S. Korea more easily
HANOI, July 6 (APP/Yonhap): South Korea will simplify the issuance of single-entry visas and expand the scope of multi-entry ones for Vietnamese travelers next week in a bid to increase bilateral trade and investment, and attract more tourists from the Southeast Asian nation, an official at the South Korean Embassy in Hanoi said Thursday. “The […]
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Could America shield Alaska from a N.Korean missile?
WASHINGTON, July 6, (APP/AFP) – It is every Alaskan’s nightmare: finding themselves within range of a North Korean missile. As that fear came one step closer to reality this week, America’s ability to block an incoming attack is under scrutiny. On Tuesday the northwestern US state awoke to the news that Pyongyang had test-fired an […]
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US ready to work with Russia on Syria ‘no-fly zones’: Tillerson
WASHINGTON, July 6 (APP/AFP): The United States is prepared to work with Russia on the establishment of “no-fly zones” in Syria, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday. In a wide-ranging statement issued two days ahead of President Donald Trump’s first face-to-face with Vladimir Putin, Tillerson said Russia had a “special responsibility” to […]