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Top 10 world news: Sriwijaya Air crash, explosives found near Capitol, and more

WION Web Team
New Delhi, Delhi, IndiaUpdated: Jan 09, 2021, 07:51 PM IST
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Here are the top 10 stories from across the world

A Boeing 737 passenger plane of Indonesia's Sriwijaya Air is 'suspected' to have crashed after it went missing minutes after its take-off from Jakarta airport. Meanwhile, in the US, after Twitter banned Donald Trump, the Federal authorities found a pickup truck packed with 11 homemade bombs, an assault rifle, and a handgun just two blocks away from the Capitol building. Nancy Pelosi has also reported her laptop missing from her office. 

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A Boeing 737 passenger plane of Indonesia's Sriwijaya Air that went missing today is 'suspected' to have crashed as per Indonesia's transport minister. 

Federal authorities in the United States of America found a pickup truck packed with 11 homemade bombs, an assault rifle, and a handgun just two blocks away from the Capitol building.

A Chinese soldier has been arrested on the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) after he was found on the Indian side of the LAC, according to a statement issued by the Government of India.

As per initial reports, at least two computers have been stolen from the Capitol during the pro-Trump riots. which took place on Wednesday.

 The king received the jab three weeks after Saudi Arabia launched a three-phase vaccination programme. 

A new poll reveals that the majority of Americans want the immediate removal of incumbent President Donald Trump after deadly riots rocked the US Capitol.

In 2014, Jialong met former US Secretary of State John Kerry in Beijing, and reportedly asked Kerry to help ''tear down the Great Firewall of censorship''.

Iran has officially banned all foreign companies from testing coronavirus vaccines on its people.

The B117 coronavirus strain, which emerged in Britain late last year, has been shown to be between 40 and 70 per cent more contagious than variants which have spread previously.

On Sunday, a group of armed and unidentified gunmen had broken into a coal mine in Mach, a town near Quetta, and had opened fire on members of the minority community.