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(Reuters) PEDERNALES/CANOA, Ecuador Rescuers in Ecuador were losing hope of finding more survivors on Tuesday from an earthquake which killed more than 400 people and dealt a shattering blow to the South American OPEC nation’s already fragile economy. Praying for miracles, distraught family members beseeched rescue teams to find missing loved ones as they used dogs, bare hands and excavators to hunt through debris of flattened homes, hotels and stores in the hardest-hit Pacific coastal […]
(Reuters) A large explosion was heard in central Kabul several hours after a suicide attack on a building of the national security agency killed dozens of people and wounded hundreds more in the Afghan capital earlier on Tuesday. Sirens could be heard but it was not immediately clear what had caused the blast or whether there were any casualties. (Reporting by James Mackenzie; Editing by Paul Tait)
(Reuters) An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit Kumamoto prefecture in southern Japan on Tuesday, broadcaster NHK said. A tsunami warning had not been issued, NHK added. Two deadly quakes hit the same region last week, killing 44 and injuring more than 1,000.
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump says he does not expect violence at the Republican convention, but insists that the system is rigged.
Actor and democratic activist George Clooney admits that the the Bernie Sanders campaign is correct to criticize fundraiser and the amount of money raised at fundraisers he hosted is “obscene.”
Rescuers and desperate families clawed through rubble, pulling out survivors two days after an earthquake that killed at least 413 people and devastated a tourist region of Ecuador. https://youtu.be/70dabywh7V0
by Harumi OZAWA MINAMI-ASO, Japan (AFP) — Japan on Monday enlisted US help to airlift supplies to some of the 100,000 people made homeless by earthquakes in the country’s south, as rescuers struggled to find those still missing in a massive landslide. Many of those evacuated after their homes were damaged or destroyed have had to sleep in temporary accommodation or huddle in makeshift shelters, and media have reported problems in delivering food and other […]
BAGHDAD,Iraq (AFP) – The United States will deploy additional forces to Iraq and make Apache attack helicopters available to support the country’s troops, US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Monday in Baghdad. https://youtu.be/hVX3mWT8ayc
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 […]
(Reuters) A Taliban suicide car bomber attacked an office of Afghanistan’s main national security agency in Kabul on Tuesday, killing or wounding several people, the first assault in the capital since the group declared their new spring offensive a week ago. President Ashraf Ghani condemned the attack “in the strongest possible terms” in a statement from the presidential palace, only a few hundred meters away from the scene of the blast. Several people were killed […]
ECUADOR (AFP) — As rescuers continue to search for survivors of a powerful earthquake that killed 272 people, victims of the earthquake speak of their trauma.
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, […]
