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Ship captain arrested after collision with Greek warship

11:23 pm October 28, 2020

Athens: Greek authorities on Wednesday arrested the captain of a Portuguese-flagged cargo ship that collided with a Greek navy minehunter outside the country’s main port of Piraeus. The coast guard said the captain of the Maersk Launceston container vessel was arrested for alleged violations of the Greek penal code and of the International Regulations for the Prevention of Collisions […]

New deaths as fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh keeps flaring

7:02 pm October 28, 2020

Yerevan: Deadly fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh showed no signs of abating Wednesday despite a US-brokered cease-fire that took force just two days ago and has so far failed to halt the flare-up of a decades-old conflict. Nagorno-Karabakh officials said Azerbaijani forces hit Stepanakert, the region’s capital, and the nearby town of Shushi with the Smerch long-range multiple rocket […]

‘Once in a Blue Moon’ on October 31

5:38 pm October 28, 2020

By Aditya Vikram Singh/New Delhi: THE ‘Once in a Blue Moon’ story will come to be true once again this Saturday when the world will witness the occurrence of the rare celestial wonder Blue Moon on October 31. Although this is a rare and good tiding for the excited and exalted sky-watchers, there is some […]

Pope again updates Vatican legal code amid scrutiny, probes

‘We’re working on it’: Pope’s COVID advisors

12:09 am October 28, 2020

Rome: Pope Francis’ decision to forgo wearing a mask has been noticed, with some concern, by the commission of Vatican experts he appointed to help chart the Catholic Church’s path through the coronavirus pandemic and the aftermath. The Rev. Augusto Zampini, one of the key members of the pope’s COVID-19 commission, acknowledged on Tuesday that at […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Greece, Turkey wrangle over military games in eastern Mediterranean Sea

7:44 pm October 26, 2020

Athens: Greece said on Monday that Turkey plans to carry out a maritime military exercise on October 28, a Greek national holiday, just hours after NATO’s secretary general said both Greece and Turkey had called off wargames on each other’s national holidays. Government spokesman Stelios Petsas said Ankara’s move showed it was an “unreliable” partner when it comes to […]