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A powerful earthquake struck north-eastern India before dawn on Monday (January 4), killing at least four people and injuring nearly 100, though the toll was expected to rise, with rescue efforts hampered by severed power supplies and telecommunication links. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake of magnitude 6.8 was 57 km (35 miles) deep and struck 29 km (18 miles) west of Imphal, the capital of the Indian state of Manipur bordering Myanmar. “This […]
Japanese stocks began 2016 on a lower note on Monday (January 4), playing catch-up to falls in U.S. stocks in the last two sessions during Japan’s market holidays. The Nikkei benchmark started the first trade of the year down 1 percent at 18818.58. The Nikkei gained around 9 percent last year. In May last year, the Nikkei average surpassed 20,000 for the first time in 15 years, and in August the total value of the […]
Hydrologists and geologists nationwide have been gathering in east China’s Shandong Province to direct rescue plans to find the quickest possible way to save 17 trapped miners inside a collapsed gypsum mine. A total of 29 people were working underground when the mine collapsed at 07:56 last Friday in Pingyi County. Eleven were rescued on Saturday while one died. According to authorities, the 17 trapped are located at two sections: three in a quarry work […]
Alfredo Pacheco, a soccer player who played for the Salvadoran national side before being banned from the sport for life for his involvement in match fixing, was murdered on Sunday (December 28). Thirty-three-year-old Pacheco was with a group of friends chatting in a gas station when an unknown assailant shot at the group various times, authorities said. Two other people were injured and were taken to a nearby hospital in the city of Santa Ana, […]
Nepal’s foreign minister asked China on Friday (December 25) for help in dealing with an energy crisis that crippled the landlocked country over the past three months and China said it would look at the request favourably. The Himalayan nation, which serves as a natural buffer between China and India, adopted its first post-monarchy constitution in September hoping this would usher in peace and stability after years of conflict. But for the last three months, […]
The Chinese foreign ministry said on Friday (December 25) that the case of a third Japanese citizen’s arrest was being investigated in accordance with the law. Earlier, Japan said that a third Japanese citizen had been arrested in China, in addition to two others arrested earlier this year for spying. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a regular news conference that the woman, who had been taken into custody in Shanghai in June, was formally […]
Rescuers started to drill the second life hole late Sunday at the collapsed mine in east China’s Shandong Province to send food, water and communication tools to the miners trapped underground. The first 20-centimeter-wide hole was drilled through by Sunday noon to reach the 220-meter-deep location where 14 miners are trapped after the accident on Friday. At the same time, rescuers are continuing digging a hole at a separate location to reach the remaining three […]
The Syrian government and its opposition have reached an agreement on evacuating the besieged militants and families in three towns under UN mediation, sources said Sunday. According to the agreement, militants trapped in the Syrian-Lebanon border town of Zabadani will be allowed to head for the airport in Lebanon’s capital Beirut through a secure channel and leave for Turkey under the supervision of the International Red Cross, starting from Monday, sources said. The militants have […]
Iraq’s army declared victory over Islamic State fighters in a provincial capital west of Baghdad on Sunday (December 27), the first major triumph for the U.S.-trained force since it collapsed in the face of an assault by the militants 18 months ago. The capture of Ramadi, capital of mainly Sunni-Muslim Anbar province in the Euphrates River valley west of the capital, deprives Islamic State militants of their biggest prize of 2015. The fighters seized it […]
A suicide bomber killed at least one person and wounded 13 in an attack on a road near Kabul airport, officials in the Afghan capital said on Monday (December 28), barely two weeks after a major Taliban assault in the city. A police officer at the scene said the suicide bomber walked up to a white pickup truck and detonated explosives he was wearing. A minibus was also destroyed by the explosion, which shattered the […]
Taiwan’s opposition leader and presidential front runner on Sunday (December 27) called on China to respect the island’s democratic process and said she believes Beijing will have a “rational attitude” when dealing with her independence-leaning party. Tsai Ing-wen, chairwoman of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), made the comments in the first live, televised presidential debate with three weeks to go before Taiwan votes in a new president and parliament. Tsai, with a double-digit percentage lead […]
China’s parliament passed a controversial new anti-terrorism law on Sunday (December 27) that requires technology firms to hand over sensitive information such as encryption keys to the government and allows the military to venture overseas on counter-terror operations. Chinese officials say their country faces a growing threat from militants and separatists, especially in its unruly Western region of Xinjiang, where hundreds have died in violence in the past few years. Speaking after China’s largely rubber-stamp […]
