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3 Russian space firm execs held for fraud

Moscow: Three top executives of the Russian space company Energia, which designs and manufactures the Soyuz and Progress spacecrafts, have been arrested for alleged fraud, investigators said on Sunday.

Fresh quake rocks Lombok island

Mataram: Multiple earthquakes — including a powerful and shallow 6.9-magnitude tremor — struck Indonesia’s Lombok on Sunday, sending fresh panic coursing through the already battered island.

Tributes pour in for Kofi Annan

Geneva: From his native Africa to the United States, tributes continued to pour in from around the world after UN chief, Nobel peace laureate, and "diplomatic rock star" Kofi Annan died at the age of 80.

More than two million begin haj

Mecca: More than two million Muslims from around the globe started the haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, one of the world's largest annual gatherings in a country undergoing unprecedented change.