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SEOUL (AFP) – For hours, they pulled body after body out of the crushed tangles of limbs that filled the narrow Itaewon alleyway at the epicentre of South Korea’s worst ever stampede. But it was often too late. Three off-duty American soldiers stationed in South Korea told AFP how they found themselves caught up in […]
PERTH, AUSTRALIA (AP) – Shadab Khan took three wickets and then hit the winning runs as Pakistan beat Netherlands by six wickets with six overs to spare yesterday, finally posting a victory at the Twenty20 (T20) World Cup. Pakistan lost in a last-ball thriller in its tournament opener against archrival India and was upset by […]
CNA – Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd will resume using Russian airspace on some flights, becoming the first major airline to do so since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February, Bloomberg News yesterday. Cathay Pacific will fly from New York to the Asian financial hub using the so-called ‘Polar Route’ from tomorrow, the report said […]
GENEVA (AP) – A Swiss railway company claimed the record for the world’s longest passenger train on Saturday with a trip on one of the most spectacular tracks through the Alps. The Rhaetian Railway company ran the 1.9-kilometre-long train composed of 100 coaches along the Albula/Bernina route from Preda to Berguen. The route was designated […]
BERLIN (AFP) – Swedish electric car battery specialist Northvolt could postpone building a factory in northern Germany due to the energy crisis and enticing subsidies in the United States (US), its boss said on Saturday. The project “could be postponed”, Peter Carlsson told German daily Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung. The battery group announced it would build […]