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Bangladesh acquires lead regarding hackers

QUEZON City, Philippines – According to the Bangladesh Ambassador to the Philippines, the Bangladeshi government now has a lead regarding the identities of the hackers behind the attack on the Bangladesh Central Bank which resulted in the $81 million money-laundering scam in the Philippines. Without revealing any details, the Bangladeshi ambassador said that the hackers are neither Filipinos or Bangladeshi. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by […]

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Scenes from Japan’s two powerful earthquakes

Scenes from Japan’s two powerful earthquakes Long cracks in the ground can also be seen, revealing the fault lines that triggered the two massive earthquakes, one on Thursday (April 14) and one on Saturday (April 16). Japanese media quoted experts as saying the fault lines moved as much as three metres (3.2 yards) apart in places. There have been more than 230 aftershocks of at least level 1 on the Japanese scale since Thursday’s quake, […]

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Japan quake survivors struggle with shortages, search for missing goes on

  Survivors of a series of Japanese quakes measuring up to 7.3 struggled on Tuesday with shortages of food and water as the death toll rose to 44 and rescuers dug through mud and rubble for the missing, but hopes dimmed of finding them alive. Japanese stocks bounced back from Monday’s slide, with electronics manufacturer Sony Corp climbing 6.7 percent after saying its image sensor plant in Kumamoto, shut after the quake, makes components mainly […]

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Chinese, UN special envoys for Syria hold talks on solution to crisis

China’s Special Envoy for Syria Xie Xiaoyan and his UN counterpart Staffan de Mistura held talks at the Palace of Nations on Monday in Geneva, Switzerland, to exchange views on ending the crisis through political means. At a joint press conference after their meeting, Xie said the opportunity of ending the crisis politically has emerged thanks to the joint efforts made by the international community over the past six months. The latest peace talks in […]

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Turkey will call off migrant deal if EU fails to grant visa-free travel by June – PM

Turkey would no longer need to honour an agreement on migrants with the European Union if the bloc fails to uphold its promise to provide visa-free travel for Turks by June, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Monday (April 18). Turkey and the EU last month sealed a controversial deal intended to halt illegal migration to Europe in return for financial and political rewards for Ankara. The EU will take in thousands of Syrian […]

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Jerusalem bus bomb wounds 21, Netanyahu hints at Palestinian link

JERUSALEM,Israel (Reuters) – A bomb blew up a bus and set fire to another in Jerusalem on Monday (April 18), wounding 21 people in an attack that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu linked to a six-month-old wave of Palestinian street violence. There was no immediate claim of responsibility from any armed Palestinian factions for the blast. Israeli officials declined to assign direct blame, saying only that two of the casualties had not yet been identified […]

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US prepares Ospreys for relief effort in Japan quake regions

FUTENMA, Japan (Reuters) – U.S. military Osprey aircraft took off on Sunday (April 17) from Futenma U.S. military base in Okinawa, Japan, to provide aid for those affected by multiple large-scale earthquakes in the Kumamoto region in the south of the country. The aircraft are scheduled to land first at a Japanese Self Defence Force base in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi prefecture, to load food and water for the evacuees. As early as Monday (April 18), the […]

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Japan drone footage shows landslides and seismic faults after powerful quakes

MINAMI-ASO VILLAGE, Japan (Reuters) -A drone operated by Japan’s Geospatial Information Authority (GSI) captured dramatic footage over the weekend (April 16 and 17) of the extent of some of the landslides triggered by powerful earthquakes in southern Japan, as well as cracks in the ground revealing seismic fault lines. In one video, a landslide carrying large amounts of mud and water is seen running through a neighbourhood, swallowing a nearby public road. Long cracks in […]

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