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by Karam al-Masri ALEPPO, Syria (AFP) — Syrian government forces advanced quickly inside rebel-held east Aleppo on Monday, as the UN raised the alarm for nearly one million people living under siege in the war-wracked country. UN aid chief Stephen O’Brien told the Security Council that 974,080 people were now living under siege in Syria, more than double the number from six months ago. The assessment follows mounting international concern over the fate of Aleppo, […]
(REUTERS) — A powerful earthquake rocked northern Japan on Tuesday (November 22), the Japan Meteorological Agency said, generating a tsunami that hit the same northern Pacific coast devastated by a massive quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in 2011. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is currently in Argentina, said the government will move swiftly to respond to any emergencies. “We will announce any information regarding tsunami or evacuation swiftly, and will quickly gather information […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A tsunami measuring one metre (3.3 feet) hit Japan’s coast at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant on Tuesday following an earthquake, operator Tokyo Electric Power said. The tsunami struck at 6:38 am (2138 GMT), a TEPCO official told a televised news conference after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit the region earlier. A but TEPCO spokesman told AFP that there were no reports of any problems as a result of the wave. © […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit northeastern Japan on Tuesday, triggering warnings of tsunami waves as high as three metres (10 feet) on the coast near the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant. Public broadcaster NHK urged residents along the northeast coast to “flee immediately” to high ground, reminding listeners to heed the lessons of the “Great East Japan Earthquake”. A massive undersea quake that hit in March 2011 sent a […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The impeachment of South Korea’s embattled President Park Guen-Hye in a snowballing corruption case inched closer Monday when the main opposition party said it was examining its options. The move comes the day after prosecutors named Park a criminal suspect in a major influence-peddling case, tightening the noose on an already hugely unpopular leader. “We will immediately review the timing and methods of impeachment and set up a subcommittee to […]
PUKHRAYAN, India (AFP) — The death toll from India’s rail disaster rose to 142 on Monday after workers toiled through the night removing victims from the wreckage, with grim warnings that more bodies were trapped inside. There was little hope of finding survivors among the mangled remains of 14 carriages, which came off the tracks in northern India on Sunday in a rural district of Uttar Pradesh state. “The actual toll will still be higher […]
KANPUR, India (Reuters) — Indian rescue workers picked their way through the last of the mangled carriages of a derailed train on Monday (November 21) to pull out more bodies from a disaster that killed at least 133 people and injured more than 200. Fourteen carriages of the train, en route from Patna to Indore, derailed in the early hours of Sunday (November 20) while most of the more than 500 passengers were asleep. […]
https://youtu.be/3pEd6mOXiak by Sanjay Kanojia Pukhrāyān, India (AFP) — Emergency workers raced to find any more survivors in the mangled wreckage of an Indian train that derailed Sunday, killing at least 120 people, in the worst disaster to hit the country’s ageing rail network in recent years. Shocked passengers recalled being jolted out of their early morning slumber by a violent thud as 14 carriages leapt from the tracks in a remote area near Kanpur […]
by M Jegathesan KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) –Thousands of yellow-clad Malaysians flooded the capital Saturday to demand Prime Minister Najib Razak resign over a corruption scandal, as feared clashes with pro-government rightists failed to materialize. Leading reformist group Bersih, whose colour is yellow, turned out huge crowds for the second time in 15 months to vent anger over allegations that billions of dollars were looted from Najib’s brainchild investment fund, 1MDB. Tensions in the […]
by Park Chan-Kyong Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Tens of thousands of protestors gathered in Seoul on Saturday for the fourth in a weekly series of mass protests aimed at forcing President Park Geun-Hye to resign over a corruption scandal. The demonstrations — among the largest seen in South Korea since the pro-democracy protests of the 1980s — have provided a stark challenge to Park’s authority, but the president has defied […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) – Up to 30,000 people have been displaced by violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, half of them over the course of last weekend when dozens of people died in clashes with the military, the UN said Friday. Troops have poured into a strip of land along the Bangladesh border, an area which is largely home to the stateless Muslim Rohingya minority, since coordinated attacks on police posts last month. The army this […]
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea has confirmed the country’s first outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu virus and has ramped up quarantine measures in response, agriculture ministry officials said on Friday. The outbreaks occurred at two poultry farms in the central and southern parts of the country after the ministry reported last week that the H5N6 strain of the virus had been found in the faeces of migratory birds. Cases of human infection […]
