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South Koreans report UFO sighting after secret rocket launch

Hundreds of people called police in South Korea after fearing that a rocket test-fired by the military was a UFO or North Korean missile attack, a report said. The South Korean defence ministry had kept the launch a secret. Following, the scare, it explained that they’d been test-firing a solid-fuelled rocket, The Mirror reported. South […]

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Pele, Brazil’s three-time World Cup-winning legend, dies at 82 after battling prolonged illness

Brazil legend Pele, one of the greatest footballers of all time, died at the age of 82. The news of his demise was confirmed by his daughter on Instagram late on Thursday night. The former Brazilian footballer died of colon cancer after he stopped responding to the chemotherapy treatment. He was admitted to hospital earlier […]

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120 Russian missiles strike Ukraine cities, 90% of Lviv without power: Report

Multiple regions of Ukraine, including its capital, faced a massive Russian missile attack Thursday, the biggest wave of strikes in weeks targeting national infrastructure. Air raid sirens rang out across the country. Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said Russia launched over 120 missiles. Russia dispatched explosive drones to selected regions overnight […]

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Lionel Messi’s wait for FIFA World Cup title ends as Argentina secure dramatic penalty shootout win over France in final

Lionel Messi ended a long wait for a FIFA World Cup title as his Argentina side defeated France 4-2 (3-3) in the titular clash on Sunday. The Argentina captain was colossal to Argentina’s victory in the final, as he scored two goals and coolly slotted the penalty behind the nets in the shootout to steer […]

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US software giant Salesforce CEO says employees hired in pandemic have lower productivity

Salesforce co-chief executive officer Marc Benioff has said that the employees hired during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021 and 2022 are facing low productivity. He asked for a feedback on why such a situation had arisen. In a message sent to his employees on Slack, which was accessed by CNBC website, Benioff asked if the […]

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Dictionary.com declares ‘woman’ as 2022 Word of the Year

From Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s appointment as the first Black woman as the US Supreme Court justice to the overturning of Roe vs Wade, banning abortion, to protests in Iran and the death of the world’s longest-serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, womanhood has been a frequent search throughout this year – all of it leading […]

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Journalist Khalid al-Misslam dies during FIFA in Qatar, 2nd incident in 2 days

Khalid al-Misslam, a Qatari photojournalist, working for Al Kass TV has died in Qatar, according to a report. This comes days after the death of a US reporter who wore a rainbow t-shirt in support of the LGBTQ community. The Qatari authorities have not released the official cause of his death, Metro reported. The news […]

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PM Narendra Modi, G20 leaders plant mangroves in Bali

Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined other G20 leaders in planting mangroves at the Taman Hutan Raya Ngurah Rai mangrove forest on the margins of the G20 Summit in Bali on Wednesday. The event is part of the Indonesian government’s efforts to showcase its work to preserve mangroves. The G20 leaders visited the forest before the […]

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Trump launches 2024 US presidential run, getting jump on rivals

Donald Trump, who has mounted relentless attacks on the integrity of U.S. voting since his 2020 election defeat, on Tuesday launched a bid to regain the presidency in 2024, aiming to pre-empt potential Republican rivals.Trump, seeking a potential rematch with Democratic President Joe Biden, made his announcement at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida a week […]

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At least 151 dead, 82 injured in stampede during Halloween festivities in Seoul

A mass of mostly young people celebrating Halloween in Seoul became trapped and crushed as the crowd surged into a narrow alley, killing at least 151 people and injuring 82 others in South Korea’s worst disaster in years.Emergency workers and pedestrians desperately performed CPR on people lying in the streets after the crush in the […]