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A single-engine plane crashes into the back yard of a Los Angeles area home and the pilot is taken to hospital. A small single-engine plane crashed into the back yard of a home in the city of Compton, south of Los Angeles, on Wednesday afternoon (October 7), the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. The male pilot was alone in the plane and was taken to a local hospital for non-life threatening injuries, a fire […]
A contractor working for the Texas Department of Transportation helplessly dangles from Houston’s East Loop bridge before rescuers manage to pull him to safety. It was a terrifying day at work for a Texas Department of Transportation contractor who reportedly slipped while doing preventative maintenance while walking along the catwalk below the East Loop bridge on Wednesday afternoon (October 7, 2015). Aerial video showed the man strapped to his harness dangling hundreds of feet above […]
Unidentified assailants fired missiles at the Qasr hotel in Aden used by Yemeni government officials and at a compound housing troops of the government’s Gulf Arab allies on Tuesday (October 6), residents said. Residents said they had unconfirmed reports that about 10 people were killed or wounded. Yemeni Vice President and Prime Minister Khaled Bahah and other officials were unhurt, officials said. President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi is believed to be in Saudi Arabia. Reuters video […]
A Beijing-based artist sticks his artwork onto abandoned buildings in the Chinese capital to comment on the city’s rapid development. A 25-year-old artist in Beijing called ROBBBB prefers to display his work on the walls of abandoned buildings, rather than a gallery. His artwork is mostly derived from photos of people he sees in the Chinese capital — anyone ranging from elderly people to construction workers. Construction work is a common sight in the cities […]
Iraqis cleaned up the scenes of powerful bombings that left at least 57 people dead on Monday in Diyala, Baghdad and Basra provinces. At least 57 people were killed on Monday (October 5) in car bomb attacks in Baghdad and the north and south of Iraq, police and medical sources said. One attack took place near a crowded market in the town of Khalis, about 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Baghdad, killing 35 people, […]
The Guatemalan government declared a three-day mourning after tragedy struck said country when a landslide killed 57 people. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded and Edited by MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/AVCA2mxrCS0
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says if China participated in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal in the future, it would have significant strategic meaning. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday (October 6) that it would have significant strategic meaning if China joined the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal in the future. Twelve Pacific Rim countries on Monday (October 5) reached the most ambitious trade pact in a generation, aiming to liberalize commerce in 40 […]
Syrians in rebel-held territory uploaded videos on Sunday (October 4) alleging to show the aftermath of Russian airstrikes. It was not clear how the Syrians in rebel areas who filmed the incidents knew the planes carrying out the strikes were Russian. The Russians are unpopular with Syrians opposed to the government of Bashar al-Assad because of Moscow’s close ties to the Damascus government. In one of the clips, columns of thick smoke can be seen […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in Chile on Monday (October 05) to strengthen President Obama’s commitment to the development of marine sanctuaries in the United States and abroad, as part of an international forum at the coastal town of Vina del Mar. Earlier in the day at the second annual “Our Ocean” conference, the world’s largest marine conservation park encompassing the remote Easter Island was announced. Kerry also told delegates that the U.S. […]
Persistent torrential rainfall in South Carolina caused dangerous flooding in the state’s main cities on Sunday (October 4) and prompted hundreds of rescues through shoulder-deep waters across the southeastern state. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said parts of the state were hit with rainfall that would be expected to occur once in a thousand years, with the Congaree River running at its highest level since 1936. Haley also said that three people had died as […]
Islamic State militants have blown up the Arch of Triumph, a major monument in the 2,000-year-old Roman city of Palmyra, Syria’s antiquities chief said on Sunday (October 4), after they destroyed two ancient temples at the central Syrian site in recent months. Maamoun Abdulkarim told Reuters that sources in Palmyra had confirmed that the Arch of Triumph, a jewel in the exquisite collection of ruins in the oasis city, had been blown up. Islamic State […]
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Sunday (October 4) there were no signs of Islamic State in the country despite the killings of two foreigners this week claimed by the group which has vowed further similar assaults in the Muslim-majority nation. Japanese citizen Kunio Hoshi, 65, was gunned down on Saturday (October 3) by three masked men on a motorcycle while on his way to visit a grass farm project in the northern district […]
