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Seoul :  South Korea’s exports expanded at their fastest pace in 11 years in 2021, with the total export value reaching a record high, supported by post-pandemic recoveries in global demand. For the full year, exports rose 25.8% from a year earlier to $644.54 billion, trade ministry data showed on Saturday, the fastest pace since 2010. That also marked the first growth in three years after contractions of 5.5% and 10.4% in 2020 and 2019, respectively. “Now is the time to head towards the $700 billion export-era … The trade ministry will step up policy efforts so that industries and…

Srinagar : A stampede at a popular Hindu shrine in Indian-controlled Kashmir killed at least 12 people and injured 13 others on New Year’s Day, officials said. An investigation has been ordered into what caused the stampede early Saturday at the Mata Vaishnav Devi shrine, where thousands of Hindu devotees were gathered to pay their respect in the hilly town of Katra near southern Jammu city. Mahesh, a devotee who gave only one name, said the stampede occurred near one of the gates where pilgrims entered and exited the route to the shrine. “Something happened near one of the gates…

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Berlin : The year 2022 is here in some countries, with the inhabitants of the South Pacific islands of Samoa and Kiribati the first to start the New Year at 1000 GMT, and New Zealand following one hour later. Unlike last year, when public fireworks were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, they were allowed to be shot into the sky again in Samoa. According to the tourism authority, the island state had flown in five pyrotechnics experts from New Zealand to install the fireworks. Meanwhile, in the archipelago of Tonga, the forces of nature did not take a break…

Washington : An estimated 580 homes, a hotel and a shopping center have burned and tens of thousands of people were evacuated in wind-fueled wildfires outside Denver, officials said Thursday evening. At least one first responder and six others were injured, though Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle acknowledged there could be more injuries and deaths could be possible due to the intensity of fires that quickly swept across the region as winds gusted up to 105 mph (169 kph). The first fire erupted just before 10:30 a.m. and was “attacked pretty quickly and laid down later in the day and…

Berlin : Billions of people around the world are set to welcome 2022, on a second New Year’s Eve marked by coronavirus restrictions. It will take 26 hours between 1000 GMT on Friday and 1200 GMT on Saturday for the entire globe to ring in the New Year, reports dpa international. The celebrations start in the island nation of Samoa, then going through Australia, Asia to Europe, South America, the US East Coast, California, Hawaii and to the uninhabited islets of Baker Island and Howland Island back in the Pacific. Many large parties and fireworks displays have been cancelled around…

Johannesburg :  The coronavirus-related slump in global air traffic that has continued in the outgoing year 2021 has been accompanied by a sharp reduction in casualties, according to accident researchers. “As things stand, we are at 168 fatalities for 2021, which is almost a halving of the numbers compared to 2020 and even 505 below the average of the last 25 years,” Jan-Arwed-Richter of the Hamburg-based Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre (JACDEC). According to a JACDEC analysis prepared for the February issue of the aviation magazine Aero International and, 30 commercial aircraft were destroyed or irreparably damaged in airline…