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Workers continued to move a Chinese cruise ship which capsized during a storm in the Yangtze River on Saturday (June 6) morning as the death toll jumped to 396. Only 14 survivors, one of them the captain, have been found after the ship carrying 456 passengers and crew, overturned in a freak tornado on Monday (June 1) night. Rescuers are searching the cabins of the ship, which was righted on Friday, looking for more bodies, the […]
JUNE 5 (Reuters) — An explosion at a petrol station in Ghana’s capital killed around 90 people sheltering from a storm early on Thursday (June 4), emergency services said, in the worst disaster to strike the West African state in more than a decade. The force of the blast gave few a chance to escape. People were burned beyond recognition where they stood under the station’s awning, or trapped in the charred wreckage of cars […]
JUNE 5 (Reuters) — South Korean President Park Geun-hye visited the National Medical Center in Seoul on Friday (June 5) where Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) patients are being hospitalized. The government has promised to do everything it can to end the outbreak which began in South Korea last month when an infected South Korean man brought it back from a business trip to the Middle East. Park met medical workers who wore personal protected […]
JUNE 5 (Reuters) — Thailand’s prime minister said on Friday (June 5) his government was seriously committed to tackling the illicit trade in people and vowed no letup in its crackdown, announcing June 5 as a “national anti-human trafficking day”. The United States last year downgraded Thailand to its “Tier 3” list of worst offenders – alongside the likes of Iran and North Korea – in its annual ranking of countries by their counter-trafficking efforts. […]
The death toll from a Chinese cruise ship that capsized on the Yangtze River has climbed to 97, state media said on Friday, as authorities began righting the vessel and said there was no chance of finding anyone else alive. The rescue mission has become an operation to recover hundreds of bodies from the ship, which was carrying 456 people when it overturned in a freak tornado on Monday night. Only 14 survivors have been […]
Hackers breached the computers of the U.S. government agency that collects personnel information for federal workers in a massive cyber attack that compromised the data of about 4 million current and former employees, U.S. officials said on Thursday. A U.S. law enforcement source told Reuters a foreign entity or government was believed to be behind the cyber intrusion against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and media reports said authorities suspected it originated in China. […]
JUNE 4 (Reuters) — The Los Angeles City Council gave a second nod of approval on Wednesday (June 3) to a proposal to increase the minimum wage in the nation’s second-largest city to $15 an hour by 2020 from the current $9, but the measure must still come back for another vote, officials said. The council voted 13-1 to approve the measure, just over two weeks after a preliminary 14-1 vote in favor of the […]
JUNE 4 (Reuters) — China said on Wednesday (June 3) that it was shocked by Philippine President Benigno Aquino’s comparison between Chinese activities in the South China Sea and Nazi Germany’s expansionism, calling it “absurd” and “unreasonable”. Aquino, who is expected to agree beefed up defense ties with Japan when he meets Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Thursday (June 4), also urged Beijing to rethink its land reclamation projects in the disputed waters. […]
JUNE 4 (Reuters) — Rescuers on Thursday (June 4) cut holes into the upturned hull of the Eastern Star which capsized on China’s Yangtze River in an attempt to recover victims still within its bowels, state media showed. Divers face difficulties such as cabin doors blocked by tables and beds. There is also the fear that rashly cutting holes in the hull could burst air pockets keeping people alive. The death toll from the accident […]
JUNE 3 (Reuters) — 29 people have been found and 14 are confirmed dead as the rescue operation is underway after a passenger ship carrying 456 people capsized in China’s Yangtze River, navigation authorities said Wednesday. Rescuers said there could be more survivors in the overturned wreckage, but strong winds and heavy rain are hampering rescue efforts. More than 420 people are still missing. The on-site rescue headquarters proposed two plans to search for more […]
JUNE 2 (Reuters) — Philippines President Benigno S. Aquino III arrived at Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport on Tuesday (June 2), starting a four-day trip to bolster the two nations’ security ties. Aquino’s visit is the latest move by the president and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to strengthen security ties between the two nations as Southeast Asian nations face China’s growing naval ambitions. China claims sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, through which […]
JUNE 2 (Reuters) — Iraq said on Monday (June 1) its air force has carried out air strikes against Islamic State militants in areas west and north of the capital Baghdad. A press release by the Ministry of Defense said planes of the Iraqi air force conducted “painful” strikes targeting militant’s hideout and equipment in al-Jazeera in the western Sunni heartland of Anbar province and Samarra in Salahuddin province, north of Baghdad. The statement said […]
