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Heavy fire breaks out inside Delhi Transport Department (VIDEO) Multiple teams of firefighters were dispatched to combat a raging fire inside a transport department office in Delhi, which broke out on Monday morning. The blaze started at around 8:38am local time on Monday, NDTV reported, citing Delhi Fire Service Chief Atul Garg. A video from the scene shows the building’s ground floor engulfed in flames, with plumes of grey smoke billowing up to the sky. Fire breaks out at Delhi government office, 10 fire engines at spot.Read here: https://t.co/Bi6VMUbE4m#Delhi #DelhiFire pic.twitter.com/aj4CXyVwR0— NDTV (@ndtv) January 20, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Multiple fire trucks were deployed to put out the blaze. There...

Richest 1% own more than TWICE as much wealth as 6.9 billion people - Oxfam A super-rich one percent of the world’s population has accumulated twice as much wealth as the remaining 90 percent, global charity Oxfam said in a newly-released report. The gap between the obscenely rich and the rest of humanity has reached grotesque proportions, according to the annual report by Oxfam, published on Monday on the eve of the World Economic Forum in Davos. The new report, ‘Time to Care’, which focuses on the largely unpaid care work many women and girls take upon themselves, says that the world’s top 22 richest men have now more wealth than all the women in Africa. Also on rt.com The wolf that ate Wall Street: US economy r...

'Berlin conference showed Moscow & Ankara have a huge role to play in solving Libya’s crisis' Berlin peace summit has shown that Russia and Turkey still have an important role to play as they are among very few countries that can really influence the situation in Libya, Yusuf Erim, a Turkish foreign policy expert said. A peace conference on Libya convened in Berlin has definitely succeeded in bringing together a host of world leaders to try and find a way out of a civil war plaguing the war-ravaged land for years, Erim told RT. Yet, it also clearly showed that very few nations can really move the Libyan peace process forward as most are lacking a strategy and will to translate words into action. Also on rt.com ‘...

SpaceX simulated failure test: Elon Musk checks if Crew Dragon astronauts are as safe as Soyuz crews (VIDEO) SpaceX has simulated a rocket failure to find out if its abort system designed to save astronauts’ lives in case of an accident could match that of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft’s – which saved a Russian-American ISS crew in 2018. On Sunday, SpaceX conducted an in-flight abort test – a necessary prerequisite for it to be eventually certified to fly American astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). The company launched one of its Falcon 9 rockets with a Crew Dragon spacecraft on top of it from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to see if the vehicle – and its crew – would survive a potentially deadly launch failure. ...

Rapidly spreading: Chinese authorities confirm 136 NEW cases of deadly virus in 2 days Health officials in Wuhan, China have revealed that 136 new cases of a mysterious new strain of the coronavirus have been diagnosed over just two days, bringing the total in the city to 198. In a statement detailing the latest escalation in figures for the major viral outbreak, Wuhan Municipal Health Commission said a third person has died from the illness, while two more are in critical condition. A further 33 cases among the newly diagnosed patients are classified as “severe.” All of the patients are being kept in isolation. Also on rt.com Passengers at 3 major US airports to be screened for deadly Chinese VIRUS “The firs...

‘Detailed proposals for Libyans to take up’: Roadmap for settling every field of Libya war agreed in Berlin – Lavrov A set of measures to overcome the ongoing Libyan crisis has been agreed in a wide-ranging document at Berlin talks, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov has said – and it is up to the Libyans themselves to take up the peace process baton. The document agreed at the conference covers several aspects that need work to resolve the Libyan crisis, Lavrov told journalists, following a meeting that lasted about five hours. “It contains a chapter dedicated to security issues, which in particular includes measures to keep a stable ceasefire regime,” the minister said. Other proposals state that all of Libya’s sectarian groups, ethnic and political, should b...

Water cannon, tear gas & scores injured as Lebanese protesters clash with police (VIDEOS) Police in Lebanon tackled protesters with water cannons and tear gas, while demonstrators hurled stones and debris back at law enforcement, as unrest on the streets of Beirut escalated into violence on Sunday. Footage from the scene shows protesters and police clashing with each other on smoke-filled streets in downtown Beirut. Some of the protesters reportedly tried to force their way into the parliament, with police attempting to force them to disperse by using water cannons, tear gas and rubber bullets. Graphic images purportedly showing injuries from rubber bullets have been shared online. The Lebanese Red Cross tweeted that a dozen of its teams were resp...

‘Arms embargo & commitment to ceasefire’: Libya peace talks end on positive note in Berlin despite enduring disagreements An arms embargo and a draft plan to work toward a lasting ceasefire to end Libya’s years-long civil war has been agreed on in Berlin during a day of intensive peace talks, drawing on the process kickstarted by Russia and Turkey. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres presented the results of the talks at a final press conference on Sunday evening. Guterres told reporters that “all participants today committed to support the ceasefire,” while Merkel announced that the warring sides in Libya's conflict agreed that an arms embargo is necessary to reach a lasting ceasefire. Italian PM ...