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SOUTH KOREA

Missile crash during drill panics wary city

A South Korean ballistic missile malfunctioned and crashed into the ground early on Wednesday during a live-fire drill with the United States, panicking confused residents of coastal city Gangneung. Joint Chiefs of Staff said no injuries have been reported from the accident, which involved a short-range Hyumoo-2 ballistic missile that crashed inside an air force base in the outskirts of the city. The military apologized and said it was investigating what caused the "abnormal flight" of a missile.

INDIA

10 dead after Himalayas avalanche hits climbers

At least 10 trainee mountaineers died on Tuesday after being swept away by an avalanche in the Himalayas in northern India, media reports said, as rescuers searched for 11 others missing. A group of 29 people was hit by an avalanche on a mountain peak located in the Gangotri range of the Garhwal Himalayas on Tuesday morning, said Uttarakhand state police chief Ashok Kumar. He said rescuers pulled eight survivors from the snow and took them to a local hospital for treatment.

SWEDEN

3 scientists jointly win Nobel chemistry prize

US scientists Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless, and Danish scientist Morten Meldal won the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for discovering reactions that let molecular building blocks snap together to efficiently create new desired compounds. The technologies, known as click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry, are now used globally to explore cells and track biological processes.

Agencies Via Xinhua