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JULY 3 (Reuters) — Surveillance footage released on Friday (July 3) by Chinese state television showed the moment a 6.4 earthquake struck a rural part of China’s far western Xinjiang region. At least four people were killed and more than 20 injured when the earthquake hit Guma County of Hotan Prefecture on Friday morning, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said. The footage showed the walls of a local supermarket shaking, with goods falling from shelves. […]
(Reuters) — Tens of thousands rallied for free elections in Hong Kong on Wednesday (July 1) as the city marks the 18th anniversary of its return to China. The annual demonstration took place nearly two weeks after Hong Kong’s legislature vetoed a Beijing-backed electoral reform proposal that had triggered sometimes violent protests in the city, presenting Beijing with one of its most serious challenges in years. Protest organizer and convener of the Civil Human Rights […]
JULY 1 (Reuters) — Pakistan’s port city of Karachi is just a few kilometers away from the Arabian Sea, yet its citizens suffer from a chronic water shortage and a recent heat wave has made the situation worse. Zubaida Bibi, a housewife from a poorer locality of Karachi, stood in queue near a water pump on Tuesday (June 30) waiting to fill her plastic bucket of water. “The water problem was here before Ramadan. During […]
(Reuters) — More than 140 people were feared dead on Wednesday (July 1) after a military transport plane ploughed into a residential area shortly after take-off in northern Indonesia on the previous, in what may be the deadliest accident yet for an air force with a long history of crashes. Hundreds of rescuers from the military, police and national search and rescue team continued to search for victims at the crash site in the Sumatra […]
(REUTERS) — An Indonesian military transport plane crashed into a hotel and residential area in the northern Sumatra city of Medan on Tuesday (June 30), killing at least 30 people, a national search and rescue agency official said. Military spokesman Fuad Basya said that 12 personnel, including the pilot, had been aboard the C-130 Hercules. The bodies of five of them had been found. Local television showed a neighbourhood of houses and hotels in flames […]
JUNE 30 (Reuters) — One more person with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) died, South Korea said on Tuesday (June 30), bringing the number of fatalities to 33. “As of now, a total of 54 patients are undergoing treatment, 95 patients have been discharged from hospital and 33 people have died. And the total number of confirmed MERS cases is 182. Compared to yesterday, the total number of patients undergoing treatment has declined by three, […]
JUNE 29 (Reuters) — South Korea’s health ministry reported no additional cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) on Monday (June 29) for the second day in a row. The health ministry said the total number of confirmed MERS cases remained at 182, and 93 patients had been discharged from hospital. There were no deaths, the ministry added, leaving the total of dead from the outbreak at 32. “There were no more deaths, and […]
JUNE 29 (Reuters) — A deadly heat wave combined with persistent power cuts have taken their toll on Karachi’s butchers, with business falling as residents struggle to keep meat fresh. Sea breezes brought lower temperatures on Friday (June 26), easing the heat that has killed more than 1,150 people around Pakistan’s teeming port city of Karachi during the Muslim fasting month. However, butchers in the city were still seeing a drop in their sales on […]
(Reuters) — South Korean Minister of Health and Welfare Moon Hyung-pyo on Friday (June 26) held a meeting with overseas medical experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and from the World Health Organisation (WHO) amid a Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak. Five key experts attended the meeting in Sejong, 145 kilometres (90 miles) south of Seoul, where the headquarters of the MERS task force team at the Ministry of […]
(Reuters) — Two more patients with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus have died, South Korea’s health ministry said on Friday (June 26) bringing the total fatalities to 31. The ministry also reported one new case, taking the total to 181 in an outbreak that is the largest outside Saudi Arabia. “As of now, a total of 69 patients are undergoing treatment, 81 people have been discharged from hospital and 31 people have died. And […]
JUNE 25 (Eagle News) — The heatwave in Pakistan caused 748 dead which prompted major government hospitals to declare a state of emergency. The temperature in Pakistan has reached 44 degrees Celsius, the hottest in five years. (Karachi, Pakistan) (News featured from Reuters) (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/-QCll7OtEAE
JUNE 25 (Reuters) — The ongoing heat wave in southern Pakistan had claimed more than 800 lives as of Wednesday, with majority of the deaths reported in slum areas due to poor living conditions and frequent power outages. The slums in Karachi have been hit hard by the heat wave with temperatures of up to 45 degrees Celsius. In Korangi, a slum in the city of Karachi, residents share crowded houses. Livestock range freely and […]
