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A giant aquarium containing around 1,500 tropical fish burst in Berlin on Friday, flooding a hotel lobby and a nearby street and leaving two people injured, emergency services said. It remains unclear what caused the incident at the 14-metre high AquaDom aquarium at around 5:50am, police said. “A million litres of water and all the fish inside spilt onto the …

Russia fired more than 70 missiles at Ukraine on Friday in one of its biggest attacks since the start of the war, knocking out power in the second-biggest city and forcing Kyiv to bring in emergency blackouts nationwide, Ukrainian officials said. Two people were killed when an apartment block was hit in central Kryvyi Rih and another died in shelling …

UNITED NATIONS: For­eign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday warned the perpetrators of terrorism that Pakistan will not tolerate cross-border terrorism by the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and other militant groups, adding that Islamabad reserved the right to take direct action against them. In an earlier statement, the minister also said Pakistan could reconsider its strategy for dealing …

MOSCOW: The temperature in the Soyuz capsule docked with the Internatio­nal Space Station rose abnormally on Thursday, but the crew was not in danger, the Russian space agency said. Russia’s space agency Roscosmos and the US space agency Nasa said a coolant leak had been detected on the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft. The leak forced the last-minute cancellation of a spacewalk …

LOS ANGELES: A SpaceX rocket blasted off early on Friday carrying a US-French satellite designed to conduct an unprecedented global survey of Earth’s surface waters, a mission expected to shed new light on the mechanics and consequences of climate change. The Falcon 9 booster, owned and operated by Elon Musk’s commercial rocket company, lit up the pre-dawn sky along California’s …

TOKYO: Japan approved a major defence policy overhaul on Friday, including a significant spending hike, as it warned China poses the “greatest strategic challenge ever” to its security. In its largest defence shake-up in decades, Japan vowed to increase security spending to two percent of GDP by 2027, reshape its military command, and acquire new missiles that can strike far-flung …

Toxic hooch has killed at least 37 people in the eastern Indian state of Bihar where alcohol is banned, officials said on Saturday, with unconfirmed reports putting the death toll at over 70. Selling and consuming liquor is banned in several parts of India, driving a thriving black market for potent and sometimes lethal backstreet moonshine that kills hundreds every …

BATANG KALI: At least 16 people were killed when a landslide struck a campsite at a Malaysian farm on Friday, officials said, with rescuers scouring the muddy terrain for nearly 20 people still missing. Nor Hisham Mohammad, director of the operations division at the fire and rescue department, told reporters that “as of 1 pm (0500 GMT), 16 victims have died. The search …

ISTANBUL: A bomb hit an armoured police van in southeastern Turkey on Friday, injuring nine people and reviving fears of new unrest in the mainly Kurdish region. Eight police officers and another person were hurt in the attack near the city of Diyarbakir, the local governor’s office said. The nine were rushed to hospital as a “precaution,” a statement said, adding that their injuries …

BERLIN: A giant aquarium containing around 1,500 tropical fish burst in Berlin on Friday, flooding a hotel lobby and a nearby street and leaving two people injured, emergency services said. It remains unclear what caused the incident at the 14-metre (26-foot) high AquaDom aquarium at around 5:50 am (0450 GMT), police said. “A million litres of water and all the fish inside …