Friday, 31 March 2017 New details have surfaced in what authorities are now suspecting was an inside job involving the heist of a limited-edition gold coin weighing over 220 pounds from a Berlin museum last week. Previously, officials with the Bode Museum in Berlin observed that high-tech security measures had …
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Friday, 31 March 2017 Prince George, Britain’s third in line to the throne, is to start school in southwest London in September, Kensington Palace announced recently. Three-year-old George, the elder child of Prince William and his wife Kate, will attend the private Thomas’ Battersea school. The choice is a break …
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Friday, 31 March 2017 Beijing: President Xi Jinping called on the public to stick to the tradition of planting trees in spring amid the government’s continuous efforts to build an ecological civilisation. Xi, also general-secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, …
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Friday, 31 March 2017 New Delhi: A senior Tibetan lama at the centre of a long-running row over one of Buddhism’s most important titles has abandoned the monkhood altogether after marrying a childhood friend in India. Thaye Dorje, 33, has claimed since childhood to be the reincarnation of the Karmapa …
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Friday, 31 March 2017 NEW DELHI: At least 25 people were injured when 8 carriages of a passenger train derailed in northern India, a railway ministry spokesman said, the latest in a series of incidents involving the world’s fourth-largest rail network. The Mahakoshal Express was travelling from Jabalpur city in …
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Friday, 31 March 2017 SINGAPORE: Pest control and officers from the National Environment Agency (NEA) carried out fogging at Simon Place after Singapore’s first Zika cluster this year was detected in the area. Teams began spraying sidewalks and drains in the area at about 9.30am. 2 locally transmitted cases had …
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Friday, 31 March 2017 SINGAPORE: A Scoot airliner and an Emirates plane hit each other in the early hours of Thursday at Changi Airport. A Scoot spokesman said flight TZ188, bound for Tianjin, China, was taxiing before take-off when the accident happened at 1.40am. All 303 passengers and 11 crew …
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Friday, 31 March 2017 Brisbane (Australia) – Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from towns in 2 Australian states as authorities warned Friday there could be deaths from severe flooding caused by ex-tropical cyclone. Category four Cyclone Debbie hit northeastern Australia on Tuesday between Bowen and Airlie Beach …
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Thursday, 30 March 2017 The largest gold deposit in the country’s history was discovered in the Chinese province of Shandong, the large-scale state-owned gold mining enterprise Shandong Gold Group announced during a press conference in Beijing on 28 March. Experts estimate that the volume of gold in the deposit is …
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Thursday, 30 March 2017 MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to increase the country’s armed forces by some 18,000 people to over 1.9 million starting in July, according to a release Wednesday from the government online portal of legal information. “The manpower of the Russian Armed Forces …
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