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(Reuters) – A fire in an apartment building in central Paris killed eight people on Wednesday (September 2), among them two children according to official sources. Four people were also injured in the fire whose cause remains unknown and which broke out at 0400 (0200GMT). It started on the ground floor before spreading into the stairwell of the building. A spokesman from the interior ministry said the firemen had been mobilized twice during the […]
(Reuters) — Five-month-old baby hippopotamus Devi explored San Diego Zoo’s pool with her mother, Funani, on Tuesday (September 1) as visitors stopped to watch their aquatic interplay. Born on March 23, the baby hippo paddled and dove through the pool, attracting the attention of curious visitors who could see the animals through an underground glass window. Now comfortable swimming through the deepest parts of the pool, little Devi practices her ‘barrel roll’ with her […]
(Reuters) — The U.S. state of Missouri on Tuesday (September 1) executed a man who, along with a friend, pleaded guilty to the 1989 abduction, rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl, a state corrections department spokesman said. Roderick Nunley, 50, was pronounced dead at 9:09 p.m. CDT after receiving a lethal injection of drugs at the state’s death chamber in Bonne Terre, Missouri, corrections spokesman Mike O’Connell said. Nunley pleaded guilty to the […]
SEPT. 1 (Reuters) — Thai police arrested a second foreign suspect in the country’s deadliest bombing on Tuesday (September 1) and said they believed he played an important role in the August 17 blast that ripped through a Hindu shrine in Bangkok, killing 20 people and injuring more than 100.Thailand’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) spokesman, Winthai Suvaree said the suspect “resembled the yellow-shirt male seen in CCTV footage near the blasted shrine. […]
SEPT. 2 (Reuters) — North Koreans on Tuesday (September 1) welcomed news that North and South Korea had reached an agreement a week ago at high-level talks. Video provided to Reuters by North Korea’s official news agency KCNA, which Reuters cannot independently verify, showed North Koreans expressing their pleasure to hear an agreement had been reached. “I felt the pride of a North Korean who holds the dear respected leader Kim Jong Un in high […]
SEPT. 1 (Reuters) — Footage released by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on Monday (August 31) appears to show a suspect hurling a grenade which killed one and injured nearly 90 outside Ukraine’s parliament. A Ukrainian national guardsman died on Monday (August 31) during violent protests outside parliament in Kiev, as lawmakers voted to give more autonomy to rebel-held areas in the east of the country. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said in a tweet that nearly […]
SEPT.1 (Reuters) — The hard-line Islamic State group has destroyed part of an ancient temple in Syria’s Palmyra city, a group monitoring the conflict said on Sunday (August 30). The militants targeted the Temple of Bel, a Roman-era structure in the central desert city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It is the second temple Islamic State has targeted in Palmyra this month. The group detonated explosives in the ancient Baal Shamin temple on […]
Peru conducted a national drill on Monday (August 31) to prepare the South American country for predicted natural disasters from a strengthening El Niño weather phenomena that officials have predicted to be “extraordinary”. El Niño is the periodic warming of sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific. This phenomenon is strengthening and is likely to peak in three to seven months’ time, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said. Coastal Peruvian cities like Tumbes and Piura were put […]
(Reuters) — Three young children are being treated for dehydration in an Austrian hospital after they were rescued from a van crammed with 26 refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, Austrian police said on Saturday (August 29). The two girls and a boy, aged five and six, were found close to death when police stopped the vehicle after a chase near the Austrian town of St. Peter am Hart on the border with Germany, a […]
(Reuters) — Malaysian protesters woke on Sunday (August 30) and prepared for the second day of an anti-government rally which saw thousands take to the streets the day before. Nearly 5000 people spend the night outside, protest organisers Bersih estimated as part of protests calling for Prime Minister Najib Razak to step down. Protesters gathered near Independence square on Sunday, which remains blocked off, and started their day with physical exercises while others attended […]
AUGUST 30 (CCTV) — Turkish fighter jets on Friday night joined the U.S.-led coalition air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militant group targets in Syria for the first time, according to a written statement released by the Turkish Foreign Ministry on Saturday. The joint air strikes were conducted as part of a technical agreement between Turkey and the United States signed last week after months of talks. Turkey was previously reluctant to take part in […]
AUGUST 30 (Reetres) — Police hunting for the perpetrators of Thailand’s deadliest bombing arrested a suspect on Saturday (August 29) they said fitted the description of a man seen on security cameras leaving a rucksack at the site of the August. 17 Bangkok blast. Police raided an apartment in a northern suburb of the capital on Saturday afternoon and discovered possible bomb-making materials that could have been used in the evening attack in Bangkok’s bustling […]
