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A fire broke out at the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital in central Kolkata on Wednesday, reports NDTV. Nearly 250 patients have been evacuated. Ten fire engines are at the spot. There are no reports of any casualties.   The fire started the pharmacy of the hospital. The fire department was alerted after smoke was spotted from the building that ...

Canada’s Parliament formally stripped Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary Canadian citizenship on Tuesday for complicity in the atrocities committed against Myanmar’s Rohingya people. The Senate voted unanimously to strip Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s civilian leader, of the symbolic honor bestowed on her in 2007.   The upper house’s move follows a similar unanimous vote in the House of Commons ...

A Spanish nonprofit group said 34 migrants were feared dead after their group waited for more than 36 hours to be rescued from a semi-sunken boat in waters off Morocco. The Moroccan Interior Ministry said Tuesday 11 bodies were recovered and the boat’s teenage skipper had been detained. The migrants continuously pleaded for help from Spanish and Moroccan authorities for ...

Three researchers on Tuesday shared the Nobel Physics Prize for inventions in the field of laser physics which have paved the way for advanced precision instruments used in industry and medicine, the jury said.   Arthur Ashkin of the United States won one half of the prize, while Gerard Mourou of France and Donna Strickland of Canada shared the other ...

An eight-year-old child was killed and at least nine other people injured on Tuesday when a homemade bomb went off in a suburb of the Indian city of Kolkata, police said.   India’s eastern West Bengal state, of which Kolkata is the capital, has a long history of political violence and targeted killings of rival party activists.  “The crude bomb ...

Thirteen people were killed and at least 30 more injured on Monday when a military transport truck flipped over on a major road in the Sierra Leone capital, a military spokesman said. The open-air truck was carrying more than 40 soldiers from their barracks to a funeral in Freetown when its brakes failed as it descended a steep hill. It ...

At least 10 people have been killed and dozens more injured in South Sudan after a hand grenade exploded in a nightclub packed with revellers. Some 500 people were dancing at a venue in the western city of Yambio on Friday when an attacker threw the missile into the crowd, according to police commissioner James Monday Enoka.   “We found ...

The number of people known to have died in Indonesia in Friday’s earthquake and tsunami has risen to more than 1,200, the country’s disaster response agency says. The death toll jumped on Tuesday from a previous confirmed figure of 844.   The 7.5-magnitude quake struck just off the central island of Sulawesi, setting off a tsunami that hit the coastal ...

The Nobel Prize in Medicine has been jointly awarded to James Allison of the University of Texas and Tasuku Honjo of Japan’s Kyoto University for discovering a form of cancer therapy.   The 9 million-kronor ($1.01 million) prize was announced Monday by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute.  This year’s Nobel Prize recipients will be revealed starting Monday with ...

An airline says four passengers remain hospitalized after one of its planes crashed into a Pacific lagoon in Micronesia last week.   Air Niugini said in a statement Monday that the four are in stable condition at a Chuuk island hospital and would soon be taken to Guam for further treatment.  The Papua New Guinea national carrier says the four ...