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Britain’s first astronaut in 24 years sent a message from space to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth on Monday (January 4), saying he hoped his mission would inspire others to change the world. Former Apache military helicopter Tim Peake, 43, thanked the Queen for her message of best wishes which he received in December. He described looking down on the British Isles from space as incredible and said he hoped to demonstrate the strength of international collaboration. […]
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 […]
Cuba received a record high number of tourists in 2015, a year after the U.S. President announced to normalize the U.S.-Cuba relations. Over 3.1 million foreign tourists had visited the island country in the first 11 months of the year, 17.6 percent more than the previous year, according to the Cuban National Office of Statistics. The number of visitors, many coming from Canada and the US on cruise ships, had surpassed 3.5 million by the […]
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 […]
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Sunday (January 3) criticized Saudi Arabia’s beheading of a prominent Shiite cleric. She told a campaign rally in Derry, New Hampshire that the beheading “was not a smart decision”, and that the beheading “will inflame the region even more.” Cleric Nimr al-Nimr was among the 47 killed on Saturday (January 2) in the kingdom’s biggest mass execution for decades. Most were Sunnis convicted of al Qaeda attacks in […]
(Reuters) An earthquake measuring 6.8 struck northwest of Imphal in India, near the Myanmar border, on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The USGS said the quake was 57 kms (35 miles) deep, and initially reported it had struck inside Myanmar.
A group of self-styled militiamen occupied the headquarters of a U.S. wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon to protest the imminent jailing of two ranchers, officials said on Sunday, in the latest skirmish over federal land management in the West. The occupation, which began on Saturday, followed a march in Burns, a small city about 50 miles (80 km) north of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, in support of Dwight Hammond Jr. and his son, Steven Hammond. […]
Saudi Arabia cut ties with Iran on Sunday, responding to the storming of its embassy in Tehran in an escalating row between the rival Middle East powers over Riyadh’s execution of a Shi’ite Muslim cleric. Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told a news conference in Riyadh that the envoy of Shi’ite Iran had been asked to quit Saudi Arabia within 48 hours. The kingdom, he said, would not allow the Islamic republic to undermine its security. […]
Emergency services boosted river defenses in England’s Croston village on Tuesday (December 29) after warnings of more rain raised concerns it would be hit by further flooding. The village in Lancashire has been severely battered by heavy rain in recent weeks, leaving many homes without power. Severe flood warnings were issued for Croston because of the gap in its flood defenses, the Environment Agency said. A Chinook helicopter carrying sandbags was flown into the area […]
Colombia has already declared red alert for the uptick in forest fires spreading through the South American country that have been stirred up as a consequence of drought brought on by the El Nino phenomenon. The caution is effective for roughly 80 percent of the country. The Colombian Environment Ministry has noted a rise in temperatures of between three and four degrees Celsius (seven and eight degrees Fahrenheit) throughout the country. The country has already […]
Families continued to abandon their homes on Monday (December 28) in the southern cone of South America, which is seeing its worst flooding in decades and has already forced more than 100,000 people to evacuate. In northern Argentina, some 20,000 people have had to evacuate in what local authorities have called the worst flooding in 50 years. Aerial views showed large swamped areas in the Argentine city of Concordia, in the Entre Rios province. This […]
The Islamic State (IS) group has lost over half of its land in Iraq as the government forces claimed on Monday the retaking of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s western province of Anbar. The territory controlled by the terrorist group has reduced to 20 percent of the whole country, down from 40 percent in 2014, according to local media reports. The IS has controlled large areas in middle and northern part of Iraq since June, […]
