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(Reuters) — The Russian state must have been involved in the 2006 poisoning of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko with a radioactive isotope, which amounted to “a nuclear attack on the streets” of London, an inquiry into the death was told on Thursday (July 30). Kremlin critic Litvinenko died weeks after drinking green tea laced with polonium-210 at London’s plush Millennium hotel. From his deathbed he accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering his killing but […]
(Reuters) — Landslides triggered by torrential rain in Nepal swept through villages on Thursday (July 30), killing at least 30 people, home ministry officials said. The landslides struck the villages near the resort town of Pokhara, 125 km (77 miles) west of Kathmandu shortly after midnight. In the village of Lumle about half of the homes were buried or destroyed by a torrent of mud and rocks. A local resident said the landslide escalated […]
(Reuters) — French gendarmes and police examined a large piece of plane debris found on the beach in Saint-Andre, on the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion on Wednesday (July 29). France’s BEA air crash investigation agency said it was examining the debris, in coordination with Malaysian and Australian authorities, to determine whether it came from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which vanished last year in one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history. […]
(Reuters) — Israel’s parliament on Thursday (July 30) passed into law the ability to force-feed prisoners on hunger strike, a move that has met vehement opposition from the country’s medical association. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rightist coalition weathered a lengthy parliamentary debate and the law passed with 46 lawmakers in favour and 40 opposed in the 120-seat Knesset. Israel has long been concerned that hunger strikes by Palestinians in its jails could end in […]
JULY 30 (Reuters) — An army of chefs in Mexico City on Wednesday (July 29) crafted a 65-metre-long (213-feet-long) monster sandwich – making it the biggest sandwich ever made in Latin America. Local authorities and dozens of local business rolled up their sleeves to prepare the sandwich – known as ‘torta’ in Mexico. Thousands of pieces of bread, lettuce, onion and tomato were mixed with hundreds of liters of mayonnaise, mustard and spicy sauces for […]
(Reuters) — A University of Cincinnati police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man has been charged with murder after a grand jury investigation, the Hamilton County prosecutor said on Wednesday (July 29). Prosecutor Joseph Deters, speaking bluntly at a news conference to announce the charges, called the July 19 death of Samuel Dubose, 43, “senseless” and totally unnecessary. He said Ray Tensing, the white officer who shot Dubose in the head, never should […]
(Reuters) — Malaysia said on Wednesday (July 29) it has sent a team to Reunion Island off the east coast of Africa to determine whether washed-up debris may be from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 that is believed to have crashed in the Indian Ocean last year. No trace has been found of the Boeing 777, which disappeared in March last year carrying 239 passengers and crew from Kuala Lumpur, bound for Beijing. Most […]
CAIRO, Egypt – A furniture factory burned down in the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. Said fire records 25 dead and 22 injured. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/YxuYl4s1-bA
(Reuters) — The head of one of Iraq’s fiercest Shi’ite militias called the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State ineffective on Tuesday (July 28). Qais al-Khazali, leader of Iranian-backed paramilitary group Asaib Ahl al-Haq, also accused Washington of lacking the will to uproot the radical Sunni Jihadis controlling large swathes of Iraq and Syria. The 41-year-old Iraqi said the campaign against Islamic State had failed because of an American agenda to redraw the map of the […]
JULY 29 (Reuters) — Houston firefighters battled a four-alarm fire at an apartment block on Tuesday (July 28) that local media said left three of their colleagues injured. The injuries were not described as life threatening and no tenants were reported hurt. The fire, which broke out in the afternoon, appeared to engulf large parts of the apartment complex, with entire portions of the structure’s roof in flames. Local media reported that the Red Cross […]
(Reuters) — Turkey will seek moral support for its campaign against militants in Syria and in Iraq at an emergency meeting on Tuesday (July 28) with its military allies, NATO said, playing down any idea that Ankara would call for help from the alliance. Turkey asked for urgent consultations with its 27 NATO partners in Brussels after Ankara intensified its role in the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State, also striking Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps […]
JULY 28 (Reuters) — South Korea declared on Tuesday (July 28) it is effectively out of danger from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), more than two months after the first case was reported and began spreading in hospital settings to kill 36 people. The outbreak grew to become the largest outside Saudi Arabia, infecting 186 people and at its peak putting nearly 17,000 in quarantine. It was traced to a man who returned from a […]
