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Washington, July 25 (IANS) Amid a scorching heat wave, the US National Weather Service (NWS) has issued heat alerts for 40 million Americans across at least a dozen states, from Montana to Texas and Florida.Scorching temperatures will linger in the US Southwest while intensifying in the Midwest this week, Xinhua news agency quoted the NWS update issued on Monday as saying.A heat dome that has been stationary over the Southwest is expected to stretch into the Midwest , it added.Temperatures are forecast to reach or exceed 43.3 degrees Celsius in states including California and Arizona.Arizona’s capital city of Phoenix has…

Seoul, July 25 (IANS) North Korea will hold a grand ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the armistice of the Korean War, including celebrations that will bring its first known official foreign guests in years, Pyongyang’s state media said on Tuesday.North Korea is set to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Korean War armistice, signed July 27, 1953, this week, reports Yonhap News Agency. The North refers to the conflict as the Great Fatherland Liberation War and the day of the armistice signing as Victory Day.”Celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Great Fatherland Liberation War will…

London, July 25 (IANS) Around 500 women are set to participate in a first-of-its-kind saree walkathon, which will be held in London to mark National Handloom Day on August 7, and raise awareness about Indian handloom.The women, wearing the drapes representing different states of India, will walk past the iconic and historical landmarks on August 6, London-based news website UK Malayalees reported.The walkathon will begin from Trafalgar Square and move to the historic Parliament Square in Westminster, London, via 10 Downing Street.The event is organised by the British Women In Sarees group and is supported by the Inspiring Indian Women…

Las Vegas, July 25 (IANS) Two women hikers were found dead inside a national park in the US state of Nevada where temperatures soared to as high as 45 degrees Celsius amid a scorching heat wave. In a statement on Monday, The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officials said a group of hikers who had seen the women enter the hiking trails at the Valley of Fire State Park on the morning of July 22 became concerned when they noticed the pair was missing, Xinhua news agency reported.When authorities arrived, they said one woman was found dead on the trail…

Madrid, July 25 (IANS) The Spanish state prosecutor’s office has asked the country’s Supreme Court to reactivate an international search warrant against former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont after the July 5 decision by the General Court of the European Union (EU) to withdraw his immunity as a member of the European Parliament (MEP).Puigdemont currently lives in exile in Belgium, reports Xinhua news agency. He left Spain in the wake of the Catalan independence referendum on October 1st, 2017, which was declared illegal by the Spanish Constitutional Court.The prosecutor’s decision on Monday came a day after the results of the Spain’s…

Manila, July 25 (IANS) A powerful storm named Doksuri sweeping across the Pacific Ocean in the direction of the Philippines has intensified into a super typhoon, with the state weather bureau warning on Tuesday that it could hit the northern part of the country before moving the South China Sea later this week.The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration last spotted Doksuri some 310 km east of Cagayan province on the northern Luzon island, reports Xinhua news agency.The bureau said Doksuri, “nearing its peak intensity”, was blowing north-northwestward at 10 km per hour, packing 185 km per hour winds…

Jakarta, July 25 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province in on Tuesday, but did not have the potential to trigger a tsunami, the country’s meteorological agency said.According to meteorologists, the quake occurred at 7.25 a.m. with its epicentre located at 74 km northwest of North Central Timor Regency and a depth of 75 km under the seabed, reports Xinhua news agency.The tremors of the earthquake did not potentially trigger giant waves, the meteorological agency added.–IANSksk

Seoul, July 25 (IANS) North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the East Sea, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said on Tuesday.”Our military detected two ballistic missiles North Korea fired from areas near Pyongyang into the East Sea at 11.55 p.m. on Monday and at midnight of Tuesday,” it said.Both missiles flew about 400 km before falling into the sea, Yonhap News Agency quoted the JCS as saying.The military is still analysing the North’s latest missile launch to determine the exact type of the missiles fired, according to the JCS.The North’s latest missile launch comes as a nuclear-powered…

Kiev, July 25 (IANS) Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov has said that attacks will continue on Crimea and the Kerch bridge, which connects the occupied peninsula to mainland Russia.In an interview with CNN, the Defence Minister said: “All these targets are official targets because it will reduce their capacity to fight against us (and) will help to save the lives of Ukrainians.”When asked if Ukraine’s aim was to permanently disable the bridge, Reznikov responded: “It’s normal tactics to ruin the logistic lines of your enemy to stop the options to get more ammunition, to get more fuel, to get more…

New York, July 24 (IANS) The respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine market is likely to surpass $9 billion by 2029, a growth of over $8 billion from 2023, according to a report on Monday.The report by GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, is in the light of the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of two RSV vaccines — Arexvy by GSK and Abrysvo by Pfizer in May.Ahead of the impending RSV season in September, Moderna’s mRNA-1345 and AstraZeneca’s Beyfortus are also likely to stake a claim in the market.Together, “the four therapies will make up 90 per…