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Move to protect cold-hit homeless
KIEV: Russia and Ukraine both took precautions on Friday to protect homeless people, scores of whom have frozen to death on the streets of Europe during its brutal cold snap. As the death toll from the weeklong tragedy crossed 200 on Friday, Russian Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered the creation of feeding and medical-assistance facilities nationwide for the homeless. Russia has not reported casualty figures from the...
 
 
Floods create ‘inland sea’ in Australia
SYDNEY: Major flooding hit parts of Australia’s east on Friday, stranding thousands of residents, prompting a military airlift and leaving some communities only accessible by helicopter. The deluge, which has sparked dozens of rescues and left about 7,275 people isolated in various parts of New South Wales state has also impacted Queensland to the north where some regions have been declared a natural disaster zone. “From the...
   
100 missing feared trapped in sunk PNG ferry
PORT MORESBY: Over 100 missing passengers were feared to have been trapped inside an overloaded ferry when it sank off Papua New Guinea (PNG), an official said on Friday, as rescuers scoured the seas for more survivors. So far, 246 people have been plucked to safety in a joint rescue operation conducted by PNG and neighbouring Australia after the MV Rabaul Queen sank on Thursday morning, but scores more are unaccounted for. The p...
 
 
Russian militant chief orders halt to civilian attacks
MOSCOW: The leader of Russia’s rebels ordered a halt to attacks on civilians, saying mass opposition protests showed the public no longer supported Vladimir Putin, according to a video posted on Friday. Doku Umarov, whose Caucasus Emirate group claimed atrocities including a deadly Moscow airport bombing in 2011 and a metro attack in 2010, said from now only security objects and officials would be targeted. “I order all special g...
   
Scientists snare ‘superprawn’ off New Zealand
WILLINGTON: Scientists have captured a “supergiant” crustacean in waters seven kilometres deep off New Zealand, measuring 10 times the normal size of related species. The “supergiant amphipod,” which resembles a monster prawn, was found during an expedition to the Kermadec Trench north of New Zealand by scientists from the University of Aberdeen and Wellington’s NIWA marine research institute. Amphipods are normally up to three...
 
 
Slovakia lawmakers stripped of immunity
BRATISLAVA: Slovak lawmakers on Friday passed a bill stripping themselves of immunity for minor offences, but kept their protection from criminal prosecution throughout their four-year mandate. All 147 lawmakers present in the 150-seat chamber backed the bill that scraps the widely criticised protection of members of parliament, the president, judges and police officers from prosecution for misdemeanours such as unauthorised...
   
Breivik plans to appeal ruling on mental test
OSLO: The Norway gunman who killed 77 people in twin attacks in July will lodge an appeal with the Supreme Court in a bid to avoid a second court-ordered psychiatric exam, his lawyers said on Friday. An Oslo appeals court had on Thursday upheld a lower court’s decision to order a second opinion on Anders Behring Breivik, a 32-year-old right-wing extremist, after a first controversial evaluation found him to be criminally insane....
 
 
Turkish jets hit Kurdish rebel bases in north Iraq
ANKARA: Turkey’s military jets on Friday hit Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq where members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) are holed up, the army said. “Three targets belonging to the separatist terrorist organisation in the Zap region... were effectively hit by Turkish air force planes,” the General Staff said in a statement posted on its website. The army did not provide any details about casualties...
 
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