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The Kherkatta reservoir in Chhattisgarh, India
India official fined $640 for draining dam to retrieve phone
MUMBAI — An Indian official who made headlines after he drained a dam to retrieve his phone has been fined by the government.Rajesh Vishwas has been ordered to pay 53,092 rupees ($642; £519) for pumping out millions of litres of water without seeking permission from authorities.He had dropped the device while taking a selfie and claimed it needed retrieving as it contained sensitive government data.But he has been accused of misusing his position.The food inspector dropped his Samsung phone, worth about 100,000 rupees, into Kherkatta Dam in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh last week.After local divers couldn't find the phone, he paid for a diesel pump to be brought in, Mr Vishwas said in a video statement quoted in the media. The pump ran for several days, emptying out...
May 31, 2023

India official fined $640 for draining dam to retrieve phone

A South Korean handout picture of wreckage in the sea
North Korea says spy satellite launch failed
SEOUL — North Korea has said an accident happened as it planned to send up its first space satellite, causing it to crash into the sea.Pyongyang announced earlier it planned to launch a satellite by 11 June to monitor US military activities.It now says it will attempt a second launch as soon as possible.The launch sparked a false alarm in the South Korean capital Seoul, while in Japan a warning was issued to residents of Okinawa, in the south.There was chaos and confusion in Seoul as people awoke to the sound of an air raid siren and an emergency message telling them to prepare for an evacuation - only to be told 20 minutes later it had been sent in error.The stakes are high on the Korean Peninsula, where tensions have existed between the two countries for 70 years, and this false alarm...
May 31, 2023

North Korea says spy satellite launch failed

Visuals of the athletes being dragged and carried off in buses went viral
India's protesting wrestlers to sink medals in Ganges
NEW DELHI — India's top wrestlers have said they will throw their medals in the Ganges, the country's holiest river, as part of their ongoing months-long protest.They also plan to go on an indefinite hunger strike at India Gate -- a war memorial in capital Delhi.The wrestlers have been demanding the resignation and arrest of their federation chief who they accuse of sexually harassing female wrestlers for years.He has denied the allegations."These medals are our life and soul...We feel there's no meaning to having these medals around our necks anymore," the wrestlers said in a statement on Tuesday.Olympic medallists Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia and two-time World Champion medallist Vinesh Phogat are among the protesters who shared the statement.The wrestlers said...
May 30, 2023

India's protesting wrestlers to sink medals in Ganges

The China-registered bulk carrier detained for anchoring illegally in Malaysia's waters
Malaysia detains Chinese ship suspected of looting British WW2 wrecks
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia has detained a Chinese-registered vessel suspected of looting two British World War Two shipwrecks.The bulk carrier was seized on Sunday for anchoring illegally at the site in the South China Sea.Ammunition believed to be from the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, which were sunk by Japanese forces more than 80 years ago, was then found on board.The UK Ministry of Defence had earlier condemned the alleged raid as a "desecration" of maritime war graves.Old shipwrecks are targeted by scavengers for their rare low-background steel, also known as "pre-war steel". The low radiation in the steel makes it a rare and valuable resource for use in medical and scientific equipment.The British vessels, on the bed of the ocean some 100km (60 miles) off...
May 30, 2023

Malaysia detains Chinese ship suspected of looting British WW2 wrecks

Saltwater crocodile in Queensland
Man prises crocodile's jaws off his head at Australian resort
SYDNEY — An Australian man has escaped with his life after being attacked by a saltwater crocodile while snorkeling at an exclusive Queensland resort.Marcus McGowan, 51, has detailed how he managed to prise the predator's jaws off his head, suffering lacerations.He was airlifted to a nearby island hospital, and later flown to Cairns for further treatment.Crocodile attacks are uncommon in Australia, but there have been several in recent months.McGowan said he was in the water with a group of people about 28km (17.3 miles) off Haggerstone Island near Cape York when he was bitten from behind."I thought it was a shark but when I reached up, I realized it was a crocodile. I was able to lever its jaws open just far enough to get my head out," he said in a statement.The crocodile...
May 30, 2023

Man prises crocodile's jaws off his head at Australian resort

Locals in Nagu town clashed with dozens of police outside a mosque on Saturday
Clashes as Chinese Muslims protest to save 13th century mosque
BEIJING — Protesters have clashed with large numbers of police over the planned demolition of a mosque's dome in a largely-Muslim town in Yunnan, China.Social media videos showed crowds outside the 13th-century Najiaying Mosque in Nagu town on Saturday.Scuffles broke out between police and locals, who were hemmed in by hundreds of armed officers.Yunnan, an ethnically-diverse province in southern China, has a significant Muslim population.China is officially atheist and the government says it allows religious freedom. But observers say there has been an increased crackdown on organized religion in recent years -- with Beijing seeking greater control.In Nagu, the Najiaying Mosque had been a key landmark and in recent years had expanded with a new domed roof, as well as a number of...
May 30, 2023

Clashes as Chinese Muslims protest to save 13th century mosque

A Long March 2F rocket carrying a crew of Chinese astronauts on the Shenzhou-16 spaceship lifts off at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China on Tuesday.
China sends first civilian astronaut to space as Shenzhou-16 blasts off
BEIJING — China sent its first civilian astronaut into orbit on Tuesday, as it launched the Shenzhou-16 mission to its space station for its second in-orbit crew rotation, marking another step forward for the country’s ambitious space program.The three Shenzhou-16 astronauts blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the desert of China’s Gansu province at 9:31 a.m. on Tuesday morning, headed for the Tiangong space station orbiting earth.The crew – Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu, and Gui Haichao – will take over from the Shenzhou-15 astronauts, who have been abroad China’s newly completed Tiangong space station since November, to start their own five-month stint aboard the station.It is China’s fifth manned mission to the space station since 2021.The Shenzhou-15 crew...
May 30, 2023

China sends first civilian astronaut to space as Shenzhou-16 blasts off

Prof George Gao
Covid-19: Top Chinese scientist says don’t rule out lab leak
LONDON — The possibility the Covid virus leaked from a laboratory should not be ruled out, a former top Chinese government scientist has told BBC News.As head of China's Center for Disease Control (CDC), Prof George Gao played a key role in the pandemic response and efforts to trace its origins.China's government dismisses any suggestion the disease may have originated in a Wuhan laboratory.But Prof Gao is less forthright.In an interview for the BBC Radio 4 podcast Fever: The Hunt for Covid's Origin, Prof Gao says: "You can always suspect anything. That's science. Don't rule out anything."A world-leading virologist and immunologist, Prof Gao is now vice-president of the National Natural Science Foundation of China after retiring from the CDC last year.In a...
May 30, 2023

Covid-19: Top Chinese scientist says don’t rule out lab leak

Scientists say the Khumbu glacier on which Everest base camp sits is melting and becoming unstable because of global warming. — courtesy C. Scott Watson
Why Everest base camp won’t be moving anytime soon
KATHMANDU — Last June, Nepal’s Tourism Ministry announced plans to move Everest base camp lower down the famous mountain because global warming and human activity were making it unsafe.The camp sits on the Khumbu glacier which is thinning rapidly, creating risks for the hundreds of climbers who pass through every year.But following opposition from the Sherpa community and other mountaineering operators, the idea has been shelved. Sherpa leaders told the BBC the move was impractical and that there was no viable alternative location.As the backbone of the mountaineering industry, the Sherpa’s voice is crucial. Opposition to the move is widespread — more than 95% of attendees rejected the idea at a recent consultation with the mountaineering industry, say Tourism Ministry officials...
May 29, 2023

Why Everest base camp won’t be moving anytime soon

File picture of Delhi police tape. — courtesy Getty Images
Man held after brutally murdering girl in public in New Delhi
NEW DELHI — Police in the Indian capital, New Delhi, have arrested a 20-year-old man for brutally stabbing and murdering a 16-year-old female friend in public.Footage of the assault shows the man repeatedly stabbing the girl and crushing her head with a huge stone.The video, which has gone viral and led to outrage in India, shows many people watching the assault or walking by.Police have romantically linked the couple and say they had quarreled hours before the murder on Sunday.The girl was going to attend the birthday party of a friend’s son when she was attacked, senior police official Ravi Kumar Singh told news agency ANI.He identified the accused as Sahil and said he was arrested from near Bulandshahr district in the neighboring state of Uttar Pradesh.Singh added that the...
May 29, 2023

Man held after brutally murdering girl in public in New Delhi

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