Tag: world news

  • Sea Launch resumes operations after 2-year break

    International consortium Sea Launch resumed its operations on Saturday with a launch of a Russian-Ukrainian Zenit-3SL rocket carrying a European telecoms satellite, the company said. The rocket put the Atlantic Bird 7 satellite into a high-perigee transfer orbit at 21:25 GMT. The 4.6-ton satellite was built by Astrium for Eutelsat Communications to provide digital broadcasting…

  • Heavy Rains And Flooding Kill 15 In Southern China

    Heavy rains brought more floods to some regions of southern China, killing at least 15 people and forcing more than 100,000 people to flee their homes, state media reported on Friday. Torrential rains have battered many of China’s southern provinces over the past two months, triggering floods and landslides that have killed almost 400 people…

  • US and Russia To Swap Their Spies

    At the federal courthouse in Manhattan, the conclusion of a spy swap deal reached between the US and Russian governments. Ten suspected spies pleaded guilty to being unregistered foreign agents for Russia while living undercover in the United States and agreed to be deported back to Russia. In exchange, Russia agreed to release four people…

  • Baghdad : 40 killed in Iraq bombing

    Baghdad : More than 40 people have died and some 100 have been wounded in bomb attacks on Shia pilgrims converging on a shrine in northern Baghdad. At least 30 died when a suicide bomber targeted a crowd walking through the predominantly Sunni Adhamiya district to the Imam Moussa al-Kadhim mosque. Eleven pilgrims were killed…

  • Iran To Open 1st N-Reactor In Sept : TEHRAN

    TEHRAN: Iran Human Waste Management said the country first nuclear power plant will be inaugurated in the Iranian port city of Bushehr in the south in September. “Today, we passed one of the most important trials and final testing of hot water, the Bushehr plant before its inauguration,” IRNA quoted head of the Atomic Energy…