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(Reuters) – A powerful earthquake struck Nepal and sent tremors through northern India on Saturday, killing hundreds of people, toppling a 19th-century tower in the capital Kathmandu and touching off a deadly avalanche on Mount Everest. There were reports of devastation in outlying, isolated mountainous areas after the midday quake of magnitude 7.9, Nepal’s worst in 81 years, centered 50 miles (80 km) east of the second city, Pokhara. A collapse in communications hampered relief […]
(REUTERS) — Indian media reported at least 17 people were killed in India on Saturday (April 25) when an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale hit neighboring Nepal. The Nepal death toll from the powerful earthquake rose to 688, a senior home ministry official told Reuters at around 1130gmt, with 181 people killed in the capital Kathmandu. The figure was expected to rise rapidly. It was the worst quake to hit the impoverished Himalayan nation […]
(UPDATED 12:43 a.m. April 26) At least 1,457 people were killed in the 7.9 magnitude shallow earthquake that hit Nepal, according to a CNN report that quoted Nepal’s National Emergency Operation Center. Earlier, Reuters reported that some 900 people are dead after a shallow earthquake measuring 7.9 magnitude that struck west of the ancient Nepali capital of Kathmandu on Saturday (April 25) based on initial police estimates. Kathmandu’s main civil hospital said 36 bodies had […]
(Reuters) – An earthquake measuring 7.9 magnitude, and only 2 km deep, struck east of Pokhara in Nepal on Saturday causing buildings in the capital Kathmandu to collapse, injuring many and leaving a pall of dust over the city, witnesses said. At least two people were killed. At the main hospital in Kathmandu, people with broken limbs and arms were being rushed in for treatment. It was unclear how many people have been injured. A […]
The Saudi Arabian man arrested on suspicion of shooting dead two policemen and injuring two others in separate attacks in Riyadh was acting on instructions from the Islamic State group in Syria, the Interior Ministry said on Friday (April 24). Mohammed Abdulrahman Abu Niyan, 23, has confessed to carrying out the shootings in March and April on behalf of Islamic State, after meeting a representative of the group in the Saudi capital, the ministry said. […]
HUNDREDS of Turks and Armenians held a vigil at Istanbul’s main Taksim square on Friday (April 24), for Armenians killed 100 years ago in what they say was a ‘genocide’, a chargeTurkey vehemently dismisses. Under tight security hundreds of people, including artists and human rights activists, gathered around a special memorial, holding red flowers and lighting up candles. The WWI killings is a defining element of Armenian national identity and is recognised as genocide by […]
RHODE Island, United States of America – A man weighing 1, 000 pounds was transferred to a new hospital using a crane when the nursing home where he is staying closed down.
APRIL 24 (Reuters) – The family of Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, a Filipina on death row in Indonesia, said on Friday (April 24) they were hopeful for a last-minute pardon ahead of her planned execution. Veloso, one of the 10 drug convicts who will be facing execution by firing squad, was moved to prison island of Nusakambangan on Friday. “We are still hoping that as long as she’s still alive, God will make a miracle. […]
QUEZON City, Philippines, April 24 (Eagle News) – According to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), more than 12, 000 Filipino fishermen are affected by the continuing Chinese reclamation in the West Philippine Sea which destroys the coral reefs which served as the natural habitat of several marine life. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
APRIL 24 – The execution of death sentence against Mary Jane Veloso and others was postponed by the Indonesian government in deference to the World Economic Forum and the Africa-Asia Summit, both of which are currently being held in Indonesia. (Jakarta, Indonesia) (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
More than a hundred activists gathered outside the Indonesian Embassy in Manila on Friday (April 24) to appeal for clemency pending the execution of a Filipino national in Indonesia. Mary Jane Veloso, a mother of two children, was arrested with 2.6 kilograms of heroin at Yogyakarta airport in 2010. Her plea for presidential clemency and judicial review were rejected. Migrant rights activists accompanied several family members in front of the embassy gate, carrying placards and […]
APRIL 24 — A 37-years old Danish artist turned Eco-warrior showed his love for the environment when he single-handedly cleaned a river and through his efforts turned said river trash-free. (Rotterdam, Denmark) (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
