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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 […]
Flooding caused by torrential rain along part of the French Riviera has killed least 13 people, officials said Sunday (October 4). The downpour hit the Alpes-Maritimes region — which lies at the eastern end of France’s Mediterranean coast and borders Italy — on Saturday evening (October 3). Eight people have been found dead and another five are missing, the government’s local office said. President Francois Hollande had earlier said there had been at least 12 […]
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (October 2) – According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, a Filipina nurse working in a hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is the newest case of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus or MERS-COV. Said agency guaranteed that the nurse is in good condition and is currently recuperating. (ENS, Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales)
Civilian population was not hurt in Syria as a result of Russian air strikes, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday (October 1) at a meeting of the civil society and human rights council. Putin pointed out Russia was not the first country to carry out air raids in the Middle Eastern country struck by civil war. “Other countries have been carrying out strikes on the Syrian territory for more than a year, without the UN […]
A gunman opened fire at a community college in southern Oregon on Thursday (October 1), killing nine people and wounding seven others before police shot him to death, authorities said, in the latest mass killing to rock an American campus. Governor Kate Brown said the suspect was a 20-year-old man who was slain in an exchange of gunfire with police in Snyder Hall at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg following the rampage shortly after 10:30 […]
