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Ukraine demands punishment, compensation from Iran over plane downing
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Kiev [Ukraine], Jan 12 (ANI): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday said that he expects a full investigation as well as an admission of guilt and compensation from the Iran regime following the downing of the country Boeing passenger plane last week.
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Protesters in Tehran demand Ayatollah Khamenei to quit over downing of pla
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], Jan 12 (ANI): A group of Iranian demonstrators on Saturday demanded the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to step down as protests hit central Tehran after its military mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian plane, killing all 176 people on board last week.
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High school intern at NASA discovers new exoplanet orbiting two stars
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 11 (ANI): NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Sattelite (TESS) mission is credited with the discovery of several planets that lie far outside our own solar system.
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IRGC commander says he takes full responsibility for Ukrainian airliner cr
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], Jan 11 (ANI): A senior commander of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Saturday he takes full responsibility for the Ukrainian airliner crash near Tehran that claimed the lives of all 176 people aboard.
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Study reveals some gnome galaxies host massive blackholes
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Jan 11 (ANI): A new hint towards finding out the early history of galaxy formation comes up as the astronomers discover 13 new black holes in some dwarf galaxies which are not more than a billion light-years away from our planet.
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Iran deeply regrets 'disastrous mistake' leading to Ukrainian plane crash:
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], Jan 11 (ANI): Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that he deeply regrets the "disastrous mistake" which led to the Ukrainian jetliner crash near Tehran and claimed the lives of all 176 people on board.
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Iran admits it 'unintentionally' shot down Ukrainian passenger plane
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], Jan 11 (ANI): Iran on Saturday admitted that it "unintentionally" shot down a Ukrainian International Airlines passenger plane that crashed near Tehran earlier this week, killing all 176 people aborad, state media reported.
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Iranian authorities to announce cause of Ukrainian airliner crash on Satur
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], Jan 11 (Sputnik/ANI): Iranian authorities are planning to announce the cause of the crash of a Ukrainian Boeing 737 passenger plane on Saturday, the Fars news agency reported citing a source.
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Iran refutes claims Ukrainian Boeing 737 downed by missile
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], Jan 10 (ANI): Iran on Friday refuted claims that the Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed near its capital Tehran, killing 176 people, was hit by a missile, saying that the cause behind the mishap would be determined only after opening the black box, state-run Islamic Republ
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Iran plane crash "not an intentional act," says Australian PM
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], Jan 10 : Amid rising tensions in the Middle East, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday said that the Ukrainian plane crash in Tehran "does not suggest an intentional act."
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Study suggests 'goldilocks stars' are best places to look for life
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 9 (ANI): Astronomers are looking for planets in the habitable zone of stars which is often called 'goldilocks zone' where temperatures are favourable for liquid water to exist on the surface of a planet.
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Iran declares Jan 9 mourning day after plane crash, Kerman stampede at Sol
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], Jan 09 (Sputnik/ANI): The Iranian government has declared January 9 as the day of national mourning over the deadly Ukrainian passenger plane crash and a stampede at the funeral of Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' Quds Force, in his home
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