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“This is very, very tragic. I have never seen anything like this in my career," said Sudhanshu Sarangi, the director of Odisha state’s fire and emergency department.
Nearly 500 police officers and rescue workers with 75 ambulances and buses responded to the incident.
“I’m concerned about at some point having an incident that could very, very quickly spiral out of control," the U.S. defense secretary said.
Officials with China's burgeoning space program say they plan to place astronauts on the moon before 2030 and expand their space station.
Twitter critics tore into the Fox News host for over-the-top praise of the former president.
Police detained the passenger who allegedly opened the door on board an Asiana Airlines flight from Jeju to Daegu in South Korea, which landed safely.
"In America, I am used to being othered because I am not white. But it’s a special kind of alienation to feel othered by your own people."
"As I was taken from my birth mother’s arms and placed at a nearby train station, I became a statistic ― another baby uprooted by the country’s one-child policy."
The Ukrainian president will be making his furthest trip from his war-torn country to join world leaders at the Hiroshima summit.
The case of John Shing-Wan Leung could exacerbate the deterioration in ties between Beijing and Washington over recent years.