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An Indian pilot is caught with alcohol one hour before his flight. That was evident from two breath tests that he had to undergo, reports Air India.

The damage caused by natural disasters has doubled in the past ten years compared to the previous years. That is what the International Red Cross figures in a report. As far as natural disasters are concerned, 2017 was one of the most precious years ever. Major disasters, such as the hurricanes in the United States and the Caribbean, caused more than 330 billion dollars (more than 290 billion euros) of damage, according to the Red Cross.

Energy company Engie Electrabel is looking for floating power stations that can support the Belgian main electricity grid in the ports of Antwerp, Zeebrugge and Ostend. Such 'electricity ships' are normally anchored at developing countries, but the Belgians now need them to survive the winter.

Nine mountaineers died in the Himalayas as a result of a landslide that buried their encampments. The climbers' camp stood south of the almost 7200 meters high mountain Gurja in Nepal.

You just have to dare; write a biography about Churchill. More than a thousand have been published in recent decades. But Churchill's life can always be rewritten in the light of current political circumstances.

At least 23 protected Persian lions have died in India in the last three weeks, including a rare disease. The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has called on the government to take immediate action to protect the species.

With the tsunami of today, the thoughts automatically return to Boxing Day in 2004, when the Netherlands was startled by the news of the severe seaquake near Indonesia. The resulting tsunami caused one of the biggest natural disasters of the past decades.

Off the coast of Portugal, archaeologists have found a ship wreck that has been there for four hundred years. The ship sank near Lisbon when it probably returned from India with spices.

Iran has deployed a fleet of illegal ghost ships that try to export oil outside of its flag. Transport with ships without nationality continues despite the trade sanctions imposed by the United States.

A French research ship will probably reach the boat of the injured solo sailor Abhilash Tomy on Monday. He was in trouble on thousands of kilometers south-west of Australian Perth on Friday when his mast broke off during a storm. Since then the sailor has been reporting via text messages about his deteriorating state of health.

Ships from several countries are in a race against time to save a wounded solo sailor. Indian Navy officer Abhilash Tomy participated in the Golden Globe Race, according to CNN, when his boat ran into trouble at some 3300 kilometers southwest of the Australian city of Perth.

According to the United States last year, the number of terrorist attacks dropped by 23 percent to 8584, according to the United States. This is stated in an annual report published by the US State Department on Wednesday.

Dozens of people have been killed by a bus accident in India. The vehicle hit the road in the state of Telangana. The driver reportedly lost control of the wheel when he was on a busy road for another bus, reports the newspaper Hindustan Times.

The US Vice President and Secretary of State, Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo, stressed Thursday that it was not the source of a controversial article about the White House under Trump.

The highest court in India has put a line through the punishability of homosexual contacts. Then, under a law dating from the colonial era, a prison sentence of up to ten years was imposed.

In the Indian city of Calcutta, a busy highway bridge collapsed during a heavy rain shower. Several vehicles have been dumped in depth. Nothing is clear about the number of victims.

India wants to bring a person into space in a few years. The country hopes to bring three crew members into orbit around the earth by 2022. They would have to stay there for five to seven days at an altitude of 300 to 400 kilometers.

Floods in the south of India have killed more than one million people, while many animals are still trapped in flooded areas. A large group of volunteers has gone back to save animals.

A 25-year-old businessman has placed hundreds of billboards and 'traffic signs' along the road to apologize to his girlfriend. The police of Pimpri-Chinchwad, a city in India, is stunned.

Sergey Lavrov expects that a representative of the Taliban will take part in the Afghanistan conference on September 4 in Moscow. The Russian Foreign Minister said on Tuesday that besides the Afghan government, the radical Islamic insurgency movement was also invited. 'The first reactions are positive; they plan to attend the meeting. '

The death toll due to the flood in the South Indian state of Kerala has risen to 375. Over the past few days, 32,000 people have been rescued who were trapped by the high water, the authorities reported. More than a million people are housed in emergency reception centers.

The death toll due to the floods in the South Indian state of Kerala is rising rapidly. According to local media, the unprecedented heavy and long-term rainfall has killed some 324 people. The authorities report 186 deaths. Thousands have become homeless.

Spanish football can be viewed free of charge via Facebook on the Indian subcontinent from Friday. LaLiga and Facebook have signed a contract for this. All 380 LaLiga matches are available this season for free for viewers in India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

The monsoon rains, which have persisted for days, have killed at least 37 people in the south of India. Most victims in the state of Kerala drowned or were swept away by landslides. The authorities have informed that.

In a bus accident in India at least 25 people were killed. The authorities fear that the death toll will increase further. In the bus there were 34 people who crashed 150 meters down into a ravine.

In India, we were shocked by the death of three sisters in New Delhi. The girls of two, four and eight years old died after they had not been fed for eight days, Indian media reports.

A dead baby was found on the toilet of an airplane in India. A doctor noted that the baby was born on board the AirAsia aircraft on Wednesday.

After a month-long campaign of activists, India has given in and cancels a controversial tax of 12 percent on sanitary napkins and tampons, which was introduced a year ago. The protesters had warned that for the price increase the sanitary products were already too expensive for 80 percent of the women in the country.

Fifty years after a plane from the Indian Air Force crashed in the state of Himachal Pradesh in the far north of India, mountaineers found the body of one of the 102 occupants. Parts of the device were also found.

Samsung has opened Monday the largest mobile phone factory in the world. It is located in a suburb of the Indian metropolis of Delhi. When the complex is completely finished, 120 million aircraft can be made per year. These can be simple entry-level models, but also flagship ships.