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Japan’s New Year’s Day 7.6 magnitude earthquake claims at least eight lives, causing widespread damage. Aftershocks and tsunami waves hit the western seaboard, disrupting services and prompting evacuations.
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The explosion occurred in a 44-apartment building in the city of Aracaju, capital of the state of Sergipe, due to a gas leak from a cylinder inside a kitchen, Xinhua reported citing the local Fire Brigade on Monday.
“We have rescued 14 people alive. The injured were taken to hospitals in the city of Aracaju,” Allan Santos, captain of the Sergipe Fire Brigade, said.
Santos said that in addition to the three people killed by the explosion, there were several collapses in the apartment building that left others trapped.
“The teams will remain in place until it is safe so that we can get back to work on the search for possible missing persons,” he said after three people were reported missing by relatives on Monday.
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Pakistan cricket Team director Mohammad Hafeez missed his flight to Sydney for Pakistan’s final Test series clash against Australia, according to Geo News. Australia gained an unassailable lead of 2-0 following their second consecutive triumph in the three-match series against the Asian Giants. According to Geo News sources, Hafeez was travelling with his wife and was supposed to travel to Sydney with the Pakistan team but he missed the flight at the airport.
The former Pakistan player arrived late at the airport after which the staff did not allow him and his wife to board the plane. Hafeez and his wife took another flight to Sydney hours later.
Iceland Cricket, which is known for its banter on social media platforms, trolled Hafeez on the incident. “All that talent, and now even the Aussie airlines are out to get him!” it wrote.
All that talent, and now even the Aussie airlines are out to get him! https://t.co/gtF1rXqOit
— Iceland Cricket (@icelandcricket) January 1, 2024
Pakistan is likely to hand Saim Ayub his debut cap and he could make his place in the team in place of Imam-ul-Haq.
The Geo News source also revealed that the workload of vice-captain Shaheen Shah Afridi could be reduced and he is likely to bowl less overs in the final Test of the series.
The left-arm pacer has bowled 99.2 overs in the series which is more than any player in both teams.
The fate of the series could have been left hanging as Pakistan came close to winning the second Test but ended up falling short at the end.
Pakistan stood in pole position to emerge triumphant when they were 219 for 5 and needed 98 runs for a series-levelling victory as the match seemed poised to be a cliffhanger.
But Australia skipper Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc bowled a remarkable fast bowling spell as they took the host to a second consecutive triumph with a 79-run victory.
After the game, Hafeez who was emotionally charged declared that Pakistan were better and said as quoted from ESPNcricinfo, “We played better cricket as a team. I’m proud of that. The way the team had the courage to attack this game in the best possible way. If I sum up the game, the Pakistan team played better than the other team in general. Our batting intent was better, and while bowling, we were hitting the right areas. Yes, we made some mistakes that cost us the game but as a team, I believe that there were a lot of positives, enough to win the game but unfortunately, at the end, we didn’t win the game.”
That comment was trolled by Iceland Cricket too.
It’s amazing. How can the more talented and superior team have lost 16 matches in a row in Australia? Surely those lucky Aussies will stop being lucky soon. https://t.co/118gmMCe2K
— Iceland Cricket (@icelandcricket) December 29, 2023
Pakistan will now look to win their first Test game on Australian soil since 1995 at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on January 3.
With ANI inputs
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Cops were taking necessary action against the fraudsters. If you find any fake websites, kindly report to cybercrime by dialing 1930.
Updated On – 01:29 PM, Tue – 2 January 24
Hyderabad: Hyderabad Traffic Police has requested the citizens to be aware of the cyber fraudsters who are taking advantage of discounts for pending challans that were announced recently. Fraudsters were creating fake websites for challans such as https://echallanstspolice.in and accepting payments online. In a post on the platform X(formerly Twitter) the cops communicated the same and also disclosed the correct website, https://echallan.tspolice.gov.in/publicview for paying e-challans.
The official handle of Hyderabad Traffic Police took to X, to share
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It is requested to citizens please #Beware of #fakewebsites while making payment of echallans through online.#CyberCrimeAwareness #CyberCrime #CyberFraud #Fraud #CyberSecurity #CyberSecurityAwareness @AddlCPTrfHyd pic.twitter.com/48jYkYUnRU— Hyderabad Traffic Police (@HYDTP) December 31, 2023
Cops were taking necessary action against the fraudsters. If you find any fake websites, kindly report to cybercrime by dialing 1930.
The Turkish Intelligence Agency (MIT) on Monday nabbed the Daesh ringleader in Syria’s Aleppo city, Abdullah al Jundi, who planned attacks against the Turkish forces in the Operation Euphrates Shield, and Olive Branch zones, Anadolu Agency reported.
Al Jundi, codenamed Hattab El Muhacir, was responsible for planning actions against vehicles belonging to the Turkish security forces in Syria, according to information obtained from the security forces.
The terrorist was nabbed during an operation conducted by MIT and the local security forces affiliated with the Syrian National Army in the Operation Euphrates Shield zone.
The terrorist also provided information about the members of the organization carrying out terror activities.
Some digital material belonging to the organization was also seized during the operation, disclosing Daesh’s action plans, and disrupting the organization’s activities.
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Taiwanese authorities have so far reported six incidents in December (Representational)
Taipei, Taiwan:
Two Chinese balloons were detected moving across the median line separating Taiwan from China, with one flying directly above the island, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence said Tuesday.
The balloons were seen crossing the median line over the Taiwan Strait — a sensitive waterway separating the island from China — late January 1 at two locations, one near the western city of Chiayi and another by Keelung in the north.
An accompanying graphic released by the ministry showed one balloon headed east directly above the island after appearing northwest of Chiayi on the western coast.
They were at “the altitude of approximately 30,000 and 32,000 feet (9-10 kilometres),” it said in a statement.
“The balloons headed northeast and disappeared at 23:43 yesterday and 00:43 today.”
The sightings of Chinese balloons began last month as the island’s pivotal presidential election on January 13 approaches.
Taiwanese authorities have so far reported six incidents in December.
Chinese balloons became a politically fraught topic in February when the United States shot down what it called a spy balloon over its territory, with Beijing saying the craft was a civilian airship blown off course.
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The new fatality, which occurred on Monday, has increased to seven the number of Palestinian inmates killed in the regime’s prisons since October 7, 2023, when the Gaza Strip’s Resistance movements launched Operation al-Aqsa Storm.
The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) announced the development in a joint statement.
They identified the victim as 23-year-old Abdul Rahman Bassem al-Bahsh from the city of Nablus in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The assassination of al-Bahsh took place while he was being detained under a 35-month sentence at Megiddo prison near the city of Haifa in the northern part of the occupied Palestinian territories, the commission and the PPS said.
They added that al-Bahash was the first Palestinian inmate to be killed by Israeli forces on the first day of 2024, and the seventh since October 7, 2023.
The Palestinian bodies added that al-Bahsh’s assassination “confirms that the occupation continues without no deterrent or any consideration to carry out more assassinations against prisoners…in addition to the systematic crimes of torture and abuse.”
Reacting to Israel’s new crime, the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas issued a statement, saying the crime coincides with reports about field executions, brutal torture, and inhumane conditions faced by the Palestinian inmates, especially those who are from Gaza.
“We affirm that these assassinations and crimes will backfire on the usurping occupation as fire and hell,” Hamas said.
The movement added that the Resistance combatants will teach this occupier appropriate lessons for the continuation of its crimes and brutality against our men, women, and children.”
Thousands of Palestinian prisoners are currently languishing in Israeli jails.
Back in April, a joint report by a group of Palestinian rights advocacy groups revealed that the occupying entity is keeping about 4,900 Palestinian inmates, including many women and children, behind bars.
The regime’s jail authorities usually keep Palestinian prisoners under deplorable conditions without proper hygienic standards. However, since Operation al-Aqsa Storm, the occupying regime has heightened its campaign of systematic torture, harassment, and repression against Palestinian inmates.
Following the operation, the regime also launched a genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip, which has so far claimed the lives of close to 22,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children.
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The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has denounced the death of another Palestinian abductee at an Israeli-run detention center in the occupied territories, vowing to teach the regime unforgettable lessons for its ongoing atrocities against Palestinians.
“The occupiers committed the seventh execution of our prisoners from the occupied West Bank, with the assassination of Abdul Rahman al-Bahsh at Megiddo Prison,” the Gaza-based group said in a statement released late on Monday.
“We condemn the continuation of such assassinations amid the silence of international human rights bodies and advocacy groups for prisoners of war,” the statement added.
Hamas noted that the deaths of Palestinian abductees would eventually harm the occupying Tel Aviv regime.
In a separate statement, Hamas also urged the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and human rights organizations to shoulder their responsibilities concerning Palestinian abductees.
The Palestinian resistance group highlighted that female Palestinian abductees are encountering systematic and arbitrary malnutrition and medical negligence.
“We urge international human rights institutions to shed light on the challenges that Palestinian prisoners, particularly the 76 female detainees who mostly hail from the Gaza Strip, are facing at Israeli prisons. Human rights organizations need to document such violations, and take them to competent courts,” Hamas stated.
“Certainly and equivocally, Zionist criminal leaders and liable figures will be held accountable for these heinous violations and acts of cruelty,” the statement read.
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs announced in a statement on Monday evening that Bahsh, 23, who had been imprisoned since May 31, 2022, and later sentenced to jail time for “security offenses”, had died at Megiddo Prison.
The commission stated that the Israel Prison Service (IPS) inconsiderately continues to assassinate more Palestinian detainees in its detention centers, and subjects them to systematic torture and abuse.
The death of Bahsh, who was affiliated with the Fatah resistance movement, brought to seven the number of Palestinian abductees who have died in Israeli detention centers since October 7 after Gaza-based resistance groups launched Operation Al-Aqsa Storm.
There are reportedly more than 7,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails. Hundreds of the inmates have been apparently incarcerated under the practice of administrative detention.
Human rights organizations say Israel violates all the rights and freedoms granted to prisoners by the Fourth Geneva Convention. They say administrative detention violates their right to due process since the evidence is withheld from prisoners while they are held for lengthy periods without being charged, tried, or convicted.
Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes in an attempt to express outrage at their detention. Israeli jail authorities keep Palestinian prisoners under deplorable conditions without proper hygienic standards. Palestinian inmates have also been subject to systematic torture, harassment, and repression.
After two years of investigation, the agency closed the investigation. (Representational)
New Delhi:
The Central Bureau Of Investigation has closed its probe into alleged cricket betting in the 2019 Indian Premier League (IPL) matches, sources said on Tuesday. The central agency had filed two cases in 2022, saying that matches in 2019 were influenced based on inputs received from Pakistan.
After two years of investigation, the agency closed the investigation for “want of evidence”, they added.
In May 2022, the CBI had booked eight people — Sajjan Singh, Prabhu Lal Meena, Ram Avatar Meena and Amit Kumar Sharma from Rajasthan, Gurram Satish and Gurram Vasu from Hyderabad and Dileep Kumar from Delhi — for “influencing outcome of IPL matches” based on inputs received from Pakistan. “In the garb of betting related to IPL matches, they are cheating the general public by inducing them for betting,” the agency had said.
It also said one racket was allegedly operating since 2010 while another was on since 2013.
The central agency had invoked Prevention of Corruption Act in its case as the agency suspected role of public servants in the case. It was alleged that the accused opened bank accounts using “fake IDs / KYC documents in connivance with bank officials”.
“A part of money received from the general public in India on account of betting activities is also being shared with their associates based in foreign countries using hawala networks” was the tip off on which the agency started its investigation.
The agency had further alleged that the above accused and their associates were in contact with a Pakistani suspect ‘Waqas Malik’ through a Pakistan phone number.
The policy will be in force throughout the first quarter and, depending on market conditions, the petroleum producers’ cartel may begin progressively returning reduced volumes to the market, according to TASS.
Following the November 30 OPEC+ summit, the member countries of the cartel decided on additional voluntary cuts in oil output to achieve a balance in the market.
Thus, Saudi Arabia will reduce output by 1 mln bpd until the end of March 2024, while Russia will deepen its reduction in oil deliveries to world markets from 300,000 bpd to 500,000 bpd. Other OPEC+ nations will lower output by a total of nearly 700,000 bpd, including Iraq (by 223,000 bpd), the United Arab Emirates (UAE) (by 163,000 bpd), Kuwait (by 135,000 bpd), Kazakhstan (by 82,000 bpd), Algeria (by 51,000 bpd) and Oman (by 42,000 bpd). These cuts are not part of the OPEC+ agreement and remain optional.
Given that Saudi Arabia is extending production cuts already in effect since July 2023 and is not deepening them, and that Russia is cutting its already reduced supply volumes by another 200,000 bpd, the volume of new cuts for the market will reach only 896,000 bpd.
In addition to fresh cuts, a number of OPEC+ members will continue to honor their agreements to reduce output by 1.66 mln bpd by the end of 2024. This measure has been in effect since May 2023. Under the relevant agreement, Saudi Arabia is voluntarily reducing production by 500,000 bpd, Russia by 500,000 bpd, Iraq by 211,000 bpd, the UAE by 144,000 bpd, Kuwait by 128,000 bpd, Kazakhstan by 78,000 bpd, Algeria by 48,000 bpd, Oman by 40,000 bpd, and Gabon by 8,000 bpd, according to the assumed reduction obligations.
Thus, the overall volume of voluntary reductions in oil production by OPEC+ countries will be 3.86 mln bpd until the end of the first quarter of 2024.
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