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BRUSSELS, Belgium – After the attack on the Brussels airport, temporary check-in desks were installed although there are still no reports on when said airport will resume its operation. Most flights were re-routed to other regional airports in Belgium. According to authorities, the death toll is now at 30, with 300 injured. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
DHAKA, Bangladesh – The new governor of the Central Bank of Bangladesh sent a formal letter to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas as well as the Anti-Money Laundering Council to ask for assistance in recovering the stolen $81 million in what was touted as the biggest money-laundering scandal in financial history. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
(Courtesy Reuters/CCTV) — A suicide blast killed at least 70 people and injured more than 300 others in a public park in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Sunday evening. A large number of the victims were women and children, as many mothers had taken their children to the park to celebrate Easter. After the explosion, pools of blood could be seen at the blast site and people, mostly women and children, were rushing […]
PALMYRA, Syria (AFP) — Syrian government forces backed by heavy Russian air support drove Islamic State out of Palmyra on Sunday (March 27), inflicting what the army called a mortal blow to militants who seized the city last year and dynamited its ancient temples. The loss of Palmyra represents one of the biggest setbacks for the ultra-hardline Islamist group since it declared a caliphate in 2014 across large parts of Syria and Iraq. The army […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — An Algerian held in Italy as part of a probe into fake ID documents used by the Paris and Brussels attackers was interrogated Sunday but refused to answer questions, a judicial source said. The suspect, named as Djamal Eddine Ouali, 40, was detained under a European arrest warrant near the southern city of Salerno on Saturday, and questioned in prison by prosecutors, the judge in charge of the preliminary inquiry said. […]
by Laura MANNERING HONG KONG (AFP) — It is just over a year since Erwiana Sulistyaningsih’s Hong Kong employer was jailed for horrific abuse of her maid in a case that made headlines around the world. After pictures of Erwiana’s extensive injuries went viral in 2014, the young Indonesian became the face of a movement determined to force change for the army of more than 300,000 migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. Although she never […]
Aden, Yemen (AFP)—Three suicide bombings claimed by the Islamic State group on Friday struck checkpoints of Yemeni loyalist forces in Aden, killing 22 people, including 10 civilians, a security official said. The bombings were followed by an attempt to attack a nearby large base of the Saudi-led Arab pro-government coalition which recently turned its guns on jihadists in southern Yemen. The attacks came a year after the coalition launched on March 26, 2015 an air […]
by Aaron TAM Hong Kong bookseller Lee Bo, who went missing three months ago and surfaced in China, is already on his way back over the border after a brief return home, local media reported. British citizen Lee, 65, returned to Hong Kong Thursday after disappearing in late December, in a case that has raised alarm over Beijing’s tightening grip. But Lee crossed back into the mainland Friday afternoon, less than 24 hours after his […]
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said police had arrested a suspect in the Paris area on Thursday who was in “the advanced stages” of a plot to attack France. While Cazeneuve said the raid in the Argenteuil neighbourhood northwest of Paris had led to a “major arrest”, he told reporters there was “no tangible evidence linking the plot to either the attacks in Paris or Brussels”. The arrested man, a French national, “is suspected of […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The Security Council called Thursday for the UN mission in Western Sahara to resume working at “full capacity,” in its first statement following a dispute between Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Morocco. The United Nations said Tuesday it closed its military liaison office in Dakhla, Western Sahara at the request of Morocco, which was angered when Ban referred to the “occupation” of the disputed territory. The 15 Security Council […]
by Danny Kemp and Claire Rosemberg BELGIUM, Brussels (AFP) — Six people were arrested Thursday in a series of police raids in Brussels, federal prosecutors said, two days after jihadist attacks in the Belgian capital left 31 dead. The arrests come as Belgian ministers under fire for intelligence failings over Tuesday’s Islamic State-claimed suicide blasts admitted “errors” and offered to quit. Prime Minister Charles Michel refused to accept the resignations of the interior and justice […]
Beijing, China (AFP)—At least 19 people have been killed in a coal mine accident in China, state media and officials said Thursday, in what is believed to be one of the deadliest such incidents so far this year. The accident happened on Wednesday night at a mine in the northern province of Shanxi owned by Shanxi Datong Coal Mine Group, the official Xinhua news agency said, without giving further details. The provincial Communist Youth League […]
