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22 March: India votes against Sri Lanka on the resolution to 'credibly investigate' allegations of violations during the war against Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 2009 in the United Nations Human Rights Council. [15] 29 March: India hosts 4th BRICS summit at New Delhi. Heads of state of Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa are hosted by ...
Disasters and accidents A tour bus hits a bridge at Miami International Airport, United States, killing at least two people and injuring many more. (NBC News) (BBC) (The Miami Herald) [permanent dead link ] At least 8 people are killed and 36 injured when a passenger bus overturns on the highway between the cities of Sucre and Potosí in southern Bolivia. (RIA Novosti) International ...
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Apollo-type asteroid 2024 YR4 triggers global planetary defence procedures for the first time and rises to the top of the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale after recent observations confirmed it has a 1-in-77 (1.3%) chance of impacting Earth on 22 December 2032. Follow up observations in 2028 will provide a more refined estimation of the ...
Indian cold wave during the winter months of 2012 killed at least 92 people across northern and eastern India. [1] [2] The drop in temperature had a devastating effect on the hundreds of thousands of homeless people in India. [3] Most of the dead were homeless and elderly people, living in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Law and crime The Police Service of Northern Ireland says that an incident at the home of one of its officers in Bangor, County Down, on Wednesday night was an attempt to murder him. (BBC) Pope Benedict XVI pardons his former butler Paolo Gabriele following his recent conviction for stealing confidential documents. (BBC) The UK's Police Federation launches a review into issues raised by its ...
Business and economy Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve announces explicit ties between Fed policy on interest rates and economic goals, especially unemployment. (Reuters) International relations North Korea successfully launches a long-range Unha rocket to put its first satellite into space, the aim of what critics say is a disguised ballistic missile test. The United Nations ...
Disasters and accidents Japan's Coast Guard sends a rescue team to the Russian fishing trawler "Alanet" with 24 fishermen on board which is in distress off Japanese Hokkaido Island. (The Voice of Russia) [permanent dead link ] (ITAR-TASS) Law and crime Private investigator Paul Huebl claims Whitney Houston was killed by drug dealers in February 2012 after clocking up a $1.5 million debt ...