Abuja, Sep 15 (IANS) Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency Sunday said that 44 bodies were recovered, while 130 people trapped in a collapsed church building were rescued in the country’s commercial city of Lagos. Spokesperson for the rescue agency Ibrahim Farinloye said in a statement that the number of dead people has risen to 44, Xinhua […]
Tokyo, Sep 13 (IANS) Japanese researchers have successfully implanted lab-grown retinal tissue from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) into a woman in her 70s – the world’s first recipient of stem cells. In a two-hour procedure, a team of three eye specialists led by Yasuo Kurimoto of the Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital transplanted a […]
Washington, Sep 13 (IANS) New research by NASA shows a glimpse of giant holes in the electrically charged layer of the Venusian atmosphere, called the ionosphere. These holes give additional clues to understanding Venus’s atmosphere – how the planet interacts with the constant onslaught of solar wind from the sun and perhaps even what is deep […]
Damascus, Sep 11 (IANS) The Syrian forces killed at least 32 rebels Wednesday in the countryside of the capital Damascus, media reports said. Over 20 rebels were killed when the Syrian military shelled the rebel-held suburb of Douma in the eastern countryside of Damascus, Xinhua reported citing the state news agency SANA. In northern Damascus, the […]
Jerusalem, Sep 11 (IANS) Israel has ordered criminal probes into its recent military operation in the Gaza Strip, including an Israeli shelling that killed four Palestinian children in mid-July, media reports said Wednesday. Israel’s chief military prosecutor has ordered investigations into a number of cases, including a naval shelling on a Gaza beach July 16 that […]
Lisbon, Sep 11 (IANS) The Portuguese Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested three men in an anti-drug operation and seized 1.3 tonnes of cocaine with an estimated street value of 80 million euros, authorities said Wednesday. The drug seizure took place in Potugal’s Algarve region, some 280 km south of Lisbon, as part of an international operation in […]
Damascus, Sep 10 (IANS) At least 28 Syrian rebel leaders of a group were killed Tuesday when a powerful blast targetted their meeting place in Idlib province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The slain rebels were leaders of the Ahrar al-Sham militant group. A booby-trapped car ripped through their meeting place in the town […]
Paris, Sep 10 (IANS) French President Francois Hollande will pay a visit to Iraq Friday to provide Baghdad authorities with needed tools to crack down on insurgents, the presidency office said Tuesday. The development came just days ahead of an international conference on the security in Iraq scheduled for Sep 15 in France, Xinhua reported. Hollande […]
Berlin, Sep 10 (IANS) Germany and Japan have called on all parties in the Ukraine conflict to comply with the agreed ceasefire. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida Tuesday voiced their concerns about recent ceasefire violations after a meeting in Berlin, Xinhua reported. In addition to the German-Japanese relations, the leaders […]
Brussels, Sep 10 (IANS) NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen Tuesday welcomed the formation of the new Iraqi government, encouraging all Iraqi political leaders to stand behind the new government. “This new government is an important step towards building unity, security and stability in Iraq,” Xinhua quoted Rasmussen as saying in a statement. He called the formation […]