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NIGERIA, Africa, July 24 (Eagle News) — The Nigerian authorities are conducting an investigation regarding the explosion of two bus stations in the eastern part of the country which left 29 dead and hundreds injured. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/YQBhq68ew5I
JULY 24 (Reuters) — Kenya’s interior minister, Joseph Nkaissery, demanded on Thursday (July 23) an apology from CNN for referring to Kenya as “hotbed of terror” as it reports from there ahead of US President Barack Obama’s visit on Friday (July 24). In a news conference in the capital Nairobi, Nkaissery said the CNN was inaccurate and “based on lies”. “Our attention has been drawn to a media report by CNN earlier today seeking to […]
JULY 23 (Reuters) — At least 13 people were killed in two suicide bomb attacks in northern Cameroon on Wednesday (July 22) in what appeared to be the deepest incursion by Boko Haram militants from neighboring Nigeria. The first explosion hit a market and the second a densely populated neighborhood, both in the capital of Cameroon’s Far North region, Maroua, a military source told Reuters. No one claimed responsibility, but Boko Haram has stepped […]
(Reuters) — South Korea’s defense ministry said on Wednesday (July 22) it was closely monitoring North Korea after reports it upgraded its missile tower. South Korea’s Yonhap News agency reported that the North has erected a new, taller launch tower at its missile base, possibly in preparation for firing a long-range rocket to mark an important national anniversary in October. The 67-metre (220-ft) tower will be able to accommodate the launch of a longer-range […]
UNITED State of America, July 22 — Flags were lowered to half-staff at the White House and Capitol buildings on Tuesday (July 21) to honor the victims of a deadly shooting in Tennessee earlier this week that killed five U.S. servicemen. U.S. President Barak Obama ordered U.S. flags to be flow half-staff at all public buildings in honor of the four Marines and a Navy petty officer killed in shootings at military recruitment centers in […]
MANILA, Philippines, July 22 (Eagle News) — The new commander of the U.S Pacific Fleet assured that the United States and China have a positive relation despite amid tension between America and Beijing due to territorial disputes involving the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Brunei and Malaysia. Meanwhile, Admiral Scott Swift assured that the U.S Navy is ready and prepared to respond to any contingency that will happen in the South China Sea. (Eagle News Service) […]
SOUTH China Sea, July 22 (Eagle News) — Chinese navy’s South China Sea Fleet recently conducted a landing drill to hone its combat capacity. The drill involved a landing brigade, Marine Corps, amphibious forces and navy helicopter units. The landing formation, namely the “red” side, successfully broke rival army blockades, and transported troops to a landing area after one-day and two-night voyage. The drill also featured a combined command system. It aimed to test the […]
Two miners were confirmed dead Wednesday while 13 others were still trapped after a coal mine in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province was flooded on Monday. Mud have filled the coal mine, and some lanes were blocked. Rescue work is still going on at present. Rescuers are now straining themselves in opening up two 110-meter-long rescue passages leading to the flooded site. The flood inundated the Xuxiang Colliery in Hegang’s Xing’an District at around 17:00 on […]
CHINESE navy’s South China Sea Fleet recently conducted a landing drill to hone its combat capacity, according to China’s state-run media, China Central Television (CCTV). The CCTV video footage showed that the drill involved a landing brigade, marine corps, amphibious forces and navy helicopter units. The landing formation, namely the “red” side, successfully broke rival army blockades, and transported troops to a landing area after one-day and two-night voyage, CCTV said in its report. The […]
(REUTERS) President Barack Obama said on Thursday (July 16) that U.S. officials would be thorough and prompt about getting answers after a suspected gunman opened fire at two military facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee, killing four Marines. “It is a heartbreaking circumstance for these individuals who have served our country with great valor to be killed in this fashion,” Obama said in a statement from the Oval Office. The suspected gunman was fatally shot in […]
(Reuters) — Two bomb attacks by suspected Boko Haram militants killed more than 30 people at a market in Gombe, in northeast Nigeria, on Thursday, a Red Cross official said. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the blasts, which went off around 5.30pm (1630 GMT), but they bear the hallmarks of attacks by Boko Haram. The militant Islamists have killed thousands in a six-year insurgency in the country’s northeast. “We were in the market and suddenly […]
(Reuters) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday (July 16) pushed through legislation in the lower house of parliament that could see troops sent to fight abroad for the first time since World War Two, despite thousands of protesters overnight chanting and holding up placards reading “No War, No Killing” outside. A lower house panel approval on Wednesday (July 15) of the unpopular bills, which would drop a ban on collective self-defence or […]
