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The FAA ordered all departing flights at every U.S. airport to stay on the ground from 3:54 p.m. ET on Friday after a telecommunications outage hit all Air Route Traffic Control Centers. Officials said there was no sign of an attack, every flight was accounted for, and more than 10,000 flights were delayed and 2,500 cancelled by 6 p.m. ET, with no lifting time announced.
Published 2026-11-13 · Awaaz Punjab
The 28-page 2026-2030 strategic plan commits Interior to decreasing the federal estate, ends Land and Water Conservation Fund purchases of new public land, and pushes the remaining estate toward energy, critical minerals and AI data centres — with no parcels, acreage cap or timeline named, and opposition already on record from former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
The UN humanitarian office OCHA said on Thursday that more than 333,000 people have been forced from their homes in Yemen since the start of August, including over 24,000 in the past week alone, while the International Organization for Migration put the total above 340,000. The UN Human Rights Office has verified 289 civilian casualties, and a missile strike destroyed a health centre in Lahj, killing three health workers.
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
Addressing the COP31 climate summit in Antalya, Türkiye, on Thursday, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said environmental losses from Israeli attacks exceeded $512 million in 2023 and 2024, with further losses recorded in 2026, and argued that Lebanon's reconstruction must extend beyond housing and roads to ecological rehabilitation and agricultural recovery.
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
A felony-theft pursuit that began in Lake Hallie tore west on Interstate 94 into Dunn County on Friday afternoon, November 13, ending when the suspect car hit a tire-deflation device, slid into a rest-area ditch near Menomonie and all four occupants ran — only to be located in a field by sheriff's drones and arrested within the hour, the Dunn County Sheriff's Office said.
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has granted regular bail to GoMechanic co-founder Amit Bhasin in a case alleging fraudulent GST input tax credit through 28 shell firms, noting that the investigation is complete, a complaint was filed on September 22, and the CBIC has since directed that no further arrests be carried out under GST. The allegations have not been proven in court.
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
Iran's Navy said on Saturday that a tanker which had switched off its tracking systems hit a naval mine in a prohibited area east of the Strait of Hormuz, caught fire and was immobilised — hours after the IRGC said two more oil tankers exploded in the southern strait late on Friday. The claims are Tehran's; no vessel name, flag or crew details were given and there is no independent confirmation.
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
Dayron Ramirez Mesa pleaded guilty in the December 2025 red-light crash that killed Dayana Abreu Perez at Southwest 122nd Avenue and 56th Street. Sentenced Friday to 6.5 years in prison plus 8.5 years of probation, he heard Perez's cousin tell him: “I forgive you.”
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
Conflict, displacement, food prices and Ebola are pushing the DRC toward the largest hunger caseload the IPC has ever recorded for the country — 30.3 million people in Crisis or worse, including 4.2 million in Emergency, in the first half of 2027.
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
Zelenskiy says American negotiators floated the Donbas-for-NATO question for the first time after the Abu Dhabi talks. Kyiv will not retreat, he says — but a full security package would go to a referendum.
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
Illinois State Police say the crash at Route 32 and County Road 100 North at 10:42 a.m. on Thursday, November 12 left one person dead at the scene and closed the highway for nearly four hours; names and cause are still unreleased.
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
Caltrans closes westbound I-580 overnight on November 14–15 to lift the toll gantry over the bridge; lane cuts start 7 p.m., the bike path closes 9 p.m., eastbound stays open, and westbound drivers must detour around San Pablo Bay via I-80, SR-37 and US-101.
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
Hours after a telecommunications failure grounded every US departure on Friday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called the state of air traffic control 'an emergency' and raised the administration's ask from a formal $30.1 billion letter to Congress to $50 billion — on top of $12.5 billion approved in 2025.
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
Zelenskiy said US negotiators asked, 'What if Ukraine joins NATO? Would Ukraine withdraw from Donbas?' — raised for the first time, with Kyiv refusing any retreat but open to a referendum if it wins guarantees, a strong army and rebuild funds.
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
The military said 35 militants were killed in Mir Ali and eight in Orakzai over 48 hours, with 31 more in a Quetta-district clearance operation running since November 3 — figures that could not be independently verified.
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
The BCCI has added pacer Gurnoor Brar to India's squad for the two-Test series in New Zealand starting November 19 in Wellington, released Kuldeep Yadav for domestic cricket, and confirmed Rishabh Pant has joined the squad after fitness clearance.
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
Police in Thiruvananthapuram district have arrested a senior doctor at Nedumangad District Hospital, identified in reports as surgeon K. M. Binu, for allegedly attempting to sexually assault a junior woman doctor at his residence on Friday. The woman escaped, complained at Nedumangad police station, and ministers promised action amid Friday-night protests over an alleged delay in police action.
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
Eric Seward, 48, was detained near South Market and Spruce streets after officers found an unconscious man with severe head injuries at 4:56 a.m. Friday. The victim underwent emergency surgery and remains critical, police said.
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
Jesse Lee Cormier, 37, is accused of breaking into a Sumac Drive home despite a restraining order, assaulting a man and a woman, then fleeing — until Riverside County deputies tangled his wheel with a grappler.
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
After months of deliberation, China has told UN climate officials it will not host COP33 in November 2028, the Guardian reports - disappointing experts who hoped the world's biggest emitter would take the climate stage as the United States retreats from climate diplomacy.
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
The UN-led Humanitarian Country Team said on Friday that children and adults were killed and thousands of shelters flooded in Gaza's latest rainstorm - 'not by the storm alone, but by policy decisions' - and demanded that winter supplies be let in every day, through every crossing.
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
A Delhi special court has dismissed the second regular bail pleas of Manoranjan D and Sagar Sharma, the two men accused of jumping into the Lok Sabha chamber with smoke canisters on December 13, 2023, holding that the UAPA accusations against them are prima facie true.
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
Jose Gonzalez, 24, a former Slaton police officer, was arrested Friday by the Lubbock County Sheriff's Office on a charge of cruelty to non-livestock animals. A grand jury indicted him on November 10 after investigators reviewed body-camera footage of the July shooting — in which, court documents say, Gonzalez claimed the dog had bitten his ankle before he fired.
Published 2026-11-14 · Awaaz Punjab
Police in Ontario, California, say a juvenile was taken into custody after gunfire on the main concourse of one of the state's biggest shopping centres on Friday evening. Nobody was struck and police say there is no threat to the community — but video of crowds sprinting through the mall showed how fast an ordinary shopping night can turn.
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