Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Dec 29 (ANI): Social media reports that police personnel heckled and strangulated Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are wrong, Uttar Pradesh police on Saturday said.
Washington DC [USA], Dec 28 (ANI): Five people were killed after a twin-engine plane with six people aboard crashed in Louisiana, US on Saturday morning, local media reported, quoting a local fire chief.
Algiers [Algeria], Dec 28 (ANI): Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Saturday appointed Abdelaziz Djerrad as the country's new Prime Minister, state media reported.
Tel Aviv [Israel], Dec 27 (Sputnik/ANI): Israeli security forces detained four Palestinians in the past 24 hours, one in East Jerusalem and the rest in the West Bank, media reported on Friday.
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Dec 27 (ANI): The Kerala government on Friday denied media reports that detention centres are being set up in the state and affirmed that none of the ministers of the government has seen any file regarding it.
Manila [Philippines], Dec 26 (ANI): At least 10 people have been killed and six others missing after Typhoon Phanfone battered several central Philippine islands on Christmas Day, before heading out to the South China Sea, state media reported citing local authorities on Thursday.
Seoul [South Korea], Dec 24 (Sputnik/ANI): At least five people were injured as two consecutive blasts caused a fire at South Korean steel company POSCO's plant in the country's south, media reported on Tuesday.
Jakarta [Indonesia], Dec. 24 (ANI/Xinhua): At least 24 people were killed and 13 others sustained serious injuries after a passenger bus plunged into a ravine in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Monday night, the state media reported.
Raqqa, [Syria], Dec 23 (Sputnik/ANI): At least five civilians were killed and 20 others suffered injuries in a car bomb blast in Syria's northern province of Raqqa on Monday, local media reported.
Damascus [Syria], Dec 23 (ANI): Syrian air defences on Sunday night opened fire in response to missiles being fired from inside Israel, the state media reported.
Paris [France], Dec 22 (Sputnik/ANI): The death toll from two powerful storms that hit southern Europe earlier this week has grown to eight, local media reported.
Moscow [Russia], Dec 21 (ANI/Sputnik): German Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz has rejected the new US sanctions penalising the contractors who are helping build the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, the state media reported on Saturday.