Germany has pulled the plug on three of its last six nuclear power stations as it moves towards completing its withdrawal from nuclear power as it turns its focus to renewables. The government decided to speed up the phasing out of nuclear power following Japan’s Fukushima reactor meltdown in 2011 when an earthquake and tsunami مزید پڑھیں

Russia test-fired around 10 new Tsirkon (Zircon) hypersonic cruise missiles from a frigate and two more from a submarine, Interfax news agency said on Friday citing northern fleet. Russian President Vladimir Putin has lauded the weapon as part of a new generation of unrivalled arms systems. Putin has called a missile test, conducted last week, مزید پڑھیں

Israel’s national health providers began distributing fourth vaccine shots against COVID-19 to individuals with immunocompromised systems amid a new disease called ‘florona,’ the first case of which appeared in the country on Saturday. Florona is a combination of COVID-19 and influenza. It is reported that COVID-19 is continuously surging in Israel, while nearly 5,000 new مزید پڑھیں

Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) Mumbai Zone on Saturday detected massive evasion of around ₹700 million during the crackdown on cryptocurrency service provider — WazirX. The director-general GST Intelligence (DGGI) searched around half a dozen offices of cryptocurrency service providers following the ₹700 million tax evasion from cryptocurrency trade. Citing sources, the Indian publication مزید پڑھیں

Betty White, the self-described “lucky old broad” whose sweetly sarcastic senior citizen characters were a beloved fixture on TV shows and movies such as “The Golden Girls,” “Boston Legal” and “Hot in Cleveland,” died Friday, her agent and close friend Jeff Witjas told People magazine in a statement. At 99, she was just weeks away مزید پڑھیں

Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani on Thursday described fleeing the Taliban’s victory march on Kabul, saying the decision had been taken in “minutes” and that he did not know he was leaving the country until he was taking off. Ghani told BBC’s Radio 4 “Today” programme that on the morning of August 15, 2021, the مزید پڑھیں

Saudi Arabia reimposed social distancing measures at the Grand Mosque in Makkah, after recording the highest number of infections in months. Workers have returned floor markings removed on October 17 to guide people to social distance in and around the Grand Mosque. Saudi authorities said they will reimpose “social distancing requirements between worshippers and pilgrims” مزید پڑھیں

A crowd of women marched through the Afghan capital on Tuesday, accusing Taliban authorities of covertly killing soldiers who served the former US-backed regime. Around 30 women gathered near a mosque in the centre of Kabul and marched a few hundred metres chanting “justice, justice” before they were stopped by Taliban forces, an AFP correspondent مزید پڑھیں

Over 2,000 flights have been cancelled and thousands delayed around the world as the highly infectious Omicron variant disrupts holiday travel. According to tracking website Flightaware.com at 1540 GMT on Friday, a total of 2,118 flights had been cancelled worldwide, including 500 flights originating from or headed to US airports, and over 5,700 delayed. Pilots, مزید پڑھیں

Thousands of Sudanese protesters rallied on Saturday two months after a military coup, demanding soldiers “go back to the barracks” and calling for a transition to civilian rule. Waving flags, beating drums, dancing and chanting, crowds marched on the streets of Khartoum despite a heavy deployment of security forces — who later fired tear gas مزید پڑھیں