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Reuters – Two planes collided on a runway at a city airport in the Indonesian capital late on Monday (April 4), forcing passengers to evacuate using inflatable ramps. No casualties were reported, according to a statement from the transportation ministry. Mobile phone footage posted to the Internet showed images of fire being put off by emergency services.A Boeing 737-800 operated by Batik Air, the full-service arm of one of Asia’s biggest airline operators Lion Air Group, […]
NORTH CAROLINA, United States (Reuters) – Dozens of radio towers that used to transmit “Voice of America” broadcasts throughout the world tumbled to the ground on Monday (April 4), falling like dominoes. The 48 towers in Beaufort Country, North Carolina, located on land owned by the state’s Wildlife Resources Commission, had been out of use for 10 years, NBC reported. “Voice of America” was created in 1942 as a radio news service for people living […]
SEVIERVILLE, TENNESSEE, United States (Reuters) – Five people were killed on Monday (April 4) when a sightseeing helicopter crashed and burned in a Smoky Mountains area of eastern Tennessee, authorities said. No one on the ground was injured in the crash, said Tennessee Emergency Management Agency spokesman Dean Flener. He confirmed that five people were killed, but had no further information on the incident. The owner of Smoky Mountain Helicopters said the crash occurred in […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Vietnam’s coast guard has seized a Chinese oil tanker which it claims intruded into Vietnamese waters, state media said Monday, the latest episode in a festering territorial dispute in the South China Sea. The Qiong Yangpu was carrying 100,000 litres of oil, the official Vietnam News Agency said, adding that it was captured Thursday and impounded in the northern port of Hai Phong. The three-man crew was handed over to police, […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Rising tensions worldwide helped push up military expenditure in 2015, the first increase after four years of declining spending, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in a report published on Tuesday. For the full-year 2015, world military spending totaled $1.67 trillion, a rise of one percent from the previous year. The increase was attributed primarily to more expenditure in Eastern Europe, Asia and the Middle East, while the decline […]
SWAT, Pakistan – Flash floods triggered by heavy rain in Pakistan have killed at least 55 people and rescuers were trying on Monday (April 4) to help thousands of survivors including some cut off by a landslide in a mountain valley, officials said. The weather system that brought the unusually heavy rain was expected to move northeast, towards northern India, although more isolated storms were expected in northern Pakistan, the Meteorological Department said. Yousuf Zia, […]
MANILA, Philippines – According to studies conducted by an American research institute, Asia, as a whole, is facing the danger of water shortage by 2050 due to economic activities, overpopulation and climate change. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — US and Philippine troops began major exercises on Monday as China’s state media warned “outsiders” against interfering in tense South China Sea territorial disputes. The official Xinhua news agency gave the warning as Manila and Washington launched the 11-day Balikatan (Shoulder-to-Shoulder) exercises with a low-key opening ceremony in Manila. US Defence Secretary Ash Carter is to fly to the Philippines next week to observe live-firing of artillery and visit US Navy […]
(Reuters) – More than 11.5 million documents from the files of law firm Mossack Fonseca, based in the tax haven of Panama, were leaked on Sunday (April 3), revealing details of hundreds of thousands of clients. The documents are at the center of an investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and more than 100 other news organizations around the globe. ICIJ is the international arm of the […]
CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA, United States (Reuters) — A locomotive on an Amtrak train carrying about 330 passengers derailed when it hit a backhoe south of Philadelphia on Sunday (April 3), killing two people and injuring about 35 in what passengers described as a jolt followed by a fireball. The accident in Chester, Pennsylvania, about 15 miles (25 km) southwest of Philadelphia, was the latest in a series involving the U.S. passenger rail carrier and occurred a […]
A locomotive on an Amtrak train carrying about 330 passengers derailed when it hit a backhoe south of Philadelphia on Sunday, killing two people and injuring about 35 in what passengers described as a jolt followed by a fireball. The accident in Chester, Pennsylvania, about 15 miles (25 km) southwest of Philadelphia, was the latest in a series involving the U.S. passenger rail carrier and occurred a few miles south of the site of a […]
MANILA, Philippines (Reuters) — A Japanese submarine and two escort warships made a port visit to the Philippines on Sunday (April 3) in a show of growing military ties between the two nations. Officials from the Philippine navy welcomed the Japanese training submarine JS Oyashio, along with the destroyer class ships JS Ariake and JS Setogiri. It was the first visit of a Japanese submarine to the Philippines in 15 years. “This is just an […]
