The Crisis Management Team (CMT), led by Philippine Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Ezzedin Tago, along with officials and personnel from the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh and the Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah, successfully evacuated ninety-nine (99) Filipino nationals from Yemen. This group is composed of 54 men, 43 women and two infants. The Department of Foreign Affairs said, the group traveled on a convoy of two buses. They left the western Yemeni city of Hodeidah […]
International
Malaysian helicopter crash kills PM’s senior aide and former US envoy
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s chief of staff and a former ambassador to the United States, who was also a senior member of Najib’s party, were among six people killed in a helicopter crash near the capital, officials said on Sunday. Witnesses told state news agency Bernama they saw the helicopter explode in mid-air before it crashed into the ground in the town of Semenyih outside Kuala Lumpur late on Saturday. The Prime Minister’s Office […]
International support key to protecting civilians in Yarmouk – UNRWA
Islamic State has taken control of 90 percent of a Palestinian refugee camp on the Damascus outskirts where 18,000 civilians have suffered years of bombing, army siege and militia control, a monitoring group said on Saturday (April 4). The hardline group’s offensive in Yarmouk gives it a major presence in the capital. Islamic State, the most powerful insurgent group in Syria, is now only a few kilometres from President Bashar al-Assad’s seat of power. The […]
Russia and Red Cross appeal for ‘humanitarian pause’ in Yemen
Russia and the Red Cross appealed on Saturday for a military pause in Yemen to allow urgent humanitarian aid deliveries and evacuation of civilians after 10 days of Saudi-led air strikes and fighting in which hundreds of people have died. Russia distributed a draft resolution at the United Nations pressing for suspensions of the air strikes to allow evacuation of foreign civilians and diplomats, and demanding rapid and unhindered humanitarian access. The International Committee of the […]
At least 54 dead, 15 missing after Russian trawler sinks off Kamchatka
At least 54 crew on a Russian fishing trawler died and 15 were missing after it sank in freezing waters off the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Western Pacific Ocean late on Wednesday (April 1), officials in the area said. 63 of the 132 people on board the Dalniy Vostok were rescued with the sea’s temperature near zero degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit), emergencies officials said. “The rescue operation is continuing in the Sea of Okhotsk […]
Washington moves on cyber attackers
America is going after cyber attackers based outside the country. President Barack Obama called a growing epidemic of online attacks from overseas a national emergency and issuing an executive order Wednesday (April 1) giving power to the Treasury Department to freeze assets and bar financial transactions of those targeting U.S. computer networks. The new sanctions program follows a rise in tensions between the U.S. and China over cyber security and the high-profile hacking at Sony […]
Truck hits four other vehicles in Colombia
In Colombia, eleven were dead and 15 injured after a truck plowed through four other vehicles.
Co-pilot of ill-fated plane, suicidal
Investigators in Dusseldorf, Germany found out that the co-pilot of the ill-fated plane that crashed into the French Alps has suicidal tendencies.
American artist makes invisible paintings
In the United States of America (USA), an artist makes invisible paintings that can only be seen when the rain falls. [youtube id = UFRaZFPf91U
Torn-up sick notes show crash pilot should have been grounded
The German pilots’ association Cockpit welcomed the announcement by Lufthansa on Friday (March 27) which said it will introduce new rules requiring two crew members to be in the cockpit at all times after one of the pilots at its Germanwings unit crashed a plane in the FrenchAlps, a reversal after it initially said no need to do so. “No, it is not a rush job,” said ‘Cockpit’ spokesman Markus Wahl. “We would welcome a […]
German pilot said to have suffered from depression, anxiety
(Reuters) – The German pilot believed to have deliberately crashed a plane in the French Alps killing 150 people broke off his training six years ago due to depression and spent over a year in psychiatric treatment, a German newspaper reported on Friday. The story in German tabloid Bild came a day after French prosecutors said they believed Andreas Lubitz, a 27-year-old co-pilot at Lufthansa’s budget airline Germanwings, had locked the captain out of the […]
Building in Manhattan, NY collapses
After an explosion, an apartment building in Manhattan, New York City collapsed with 12 reported injured.
