Top 10 world news: Poland intervenes in Ukraine-Germany Leopard 2 tank row, ‘RRR’ gets Academy nod, and more

Poland has officially sought permission from Germany to transfer its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, said Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak on Tuesday (January 24). After clinching the Golden Globe earlier this month, ‘Naatu Naatu’ from ‘RRR’ has scored an Oscar nomination. While the film failed to make inroads in any other category, the nomination should […]

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Ex top FBI officer Charles McGonigal held over ties with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska

A former senior FBI agent in New York had been arrested due to his affiliations with a Russian oligarch, ABC News reported on Monday. Charles McGonigal, a special agent in charge of counterintelligence at the FBI’s New York Field Office, has been arrested because of his ties with Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire who the US has sanctioned […]

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Top 10 world news: 10 dead in Lunar New Year shooting near Los Angeles, suspect at large, and more

At least 10 people were killed and 10 others were wounded in a mass shooting in a predominantly Asian city in southern California, police said on Sunday (January 22), with the suspect still at large. In Syria’s northern city of Aleppo, a building collapsed on Sunday killing 16 people, including children. As per the state […]

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Volodymyr Zelensky honours top Ukrainian officials killed in helicopter crash

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attended the funeral of helicopter crash victims on Saturday. The memorial service commemorated seven senior officials killed in a helicopter crash.  The war-torn nation received a fresh blow on Wednesday when the former interior minister Denys Monastyrskyi, his deputy and five other high-ranking officials were killed.  The accident when their French-made […]

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Top 10 world news: Russia-Ukraine war escalation, New Zealand’s new PM Chris Hipkins, & more

The Russian troops on Saturday launched an offensive in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine. Earlier, the region’s nuclear power plant was captured by Russia. In other news, New Zealand’s minister Chris Hipkins, who led the response of the country against the pandemic, will be replacing Jacinda Ardern as the next prime minister of the country. […]

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Top 10 world news: Russia claims capture of Klishchiivka, Google joins layoff spree, and more

The defence ministry of Russia on Friday stated that its forces took control of Klishchiivka which is near Bakhmut in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. As per reports, aerial support was used to capture the village.  In other news, an airport official said that the Pokhara International Airport in Nepal, where the ill-fated Yeti Airlines […]

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Top 10 world news: Russia warns of escalation, Alec Baldwin charged with involuntary manslaughter, and more

Russia warned the West that if they provide Kyiv with longer-range weapons, the ongoing Ukraine war will escalate if the West. Kazakhstan’s president dissolved the country’s Parliament and called for a snap election.  Actor Alec Baldwin has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the case of a fatal film set shooting in October 2021.   Read […]

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UN’s top women officials meet Taliban over ban on female aid workers

The UN’s top female official, Amina Mohammad, was sent by United Nations Secretary-General with a team that included Sima Bahous, the director of UN Women, in response to the ban on female aid workers in Afghanistan. Amina Mohammad is the UN secretary general’s deputy and therefore is deemed to be a very high-profile visit. The delegation […]

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Top 10 world news: All killed in Nepal plane crash, Dnipro attack’s death toll rises, and more

On Monday, the Ministry of Health and Population of Nepal confirmed that all the passengers and crew who were on board the ill-fated aircraft, which crashed on Sunday, have been killed. This has been termed the deadliest aviation disaster in the history of the Himalayan nation. unkindwhile, the death toll in a missile strike on […]

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Top 10 world news: Pokhara air crash Nepal’s worst aviation disaster in three decades & more

At least 68 people were killed after a passenger airplane with 72 people on board crashed near Pokhara International Airport in Nepal on Sunday (January 15), making it the worst aviation disaster in the country in 30 years. As the war in Ukraine continues, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the “special military operation” was […]

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