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26 Feb 2023, 2:57 PM (IST)
At least 33 people have died after a migrant shipwreck off the eastern coast of Italy's Calabria region, ANSA and other Italian news agencies reported on Sunday. Some 27 bodies were found washed up on the shores of Steccato di Cutro, a seaside resort in the province of Crotone, ANSA said, adding that more bodies were spotted in the water. The current provisional death toll of 33 will "certainly" rise, the news agency said.
26 Feb 2023, 2:48 PM (IST)
Four people were killed and 14 injured after an explosive-laden motorbike blew up in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province on Sunday morning.
The explosion took place in Barkhan district’s Rakhni Bazaar area, reports Geo TV news. The law enforcement agency also shared that the explosion had damaged several cars, motorcycles and shops.
26 Feb 2023, 12:45 PM (IST)
CIA Director William Burns said that he was “confident” that China is "considering" sending lethal aid to Russia but intelligence suggests there has been no final decision by Beijing.
We're confident that the Chinese leadership is considering the provision of lethal equipment," CIA Director William Burns told CBS News.
"We also don't see that a final decision has been made yet, and we don't see evidence of actual shipments of lethal equipment,” Burns added.
26 Feb 2023, 10:33 AM (IST)
California faced mass power outages, closure of both beaches and motorways as well as flooding as a rare winter storm swept the US state.
After days of fierce and chilly winds and frigid temperatures, more than 120,000 citizens are living without electricity in areas of Los Angeles. The central north-south motorway located on the West Coast, Interstate 5, remains closed due to heavy snow in the mountainous section, also called the Grapevine.
26 Feb 2023, 10:32 AM (IST)
All five passengers aboard a medical transport plane that crashed in the western US state of Nevada on Friday (February 24) died, according to the plane's operator on Saturday. As per a statement from REMSA Health, the jet vanished from radar on Friday evening outside the dry hamlet of Stagecoach, close to Nevada's border with California.
26 Feb 2023, 10:31 AM (IST)
Russia has accused the West of “destabilising” the G20 finance chiefs’ meeting that took place in India’s southern Bengaluru city. It blamed the US, EU and G7 nations for trying to impose their “diktat” as the talks concluded with differences over the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
“We regret that the activities of the G20 continue to be destabilised by the Western collective and used in an anti-Russian... way," the foreign ministry said in statement on Saturday, reports AFP news agency.