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Hundreds of police were on standby at Hong Kong’s Government House on Sunday (March 15) at its bi-annual open day after threats of anti-mainland protests by radical groups. Although individuals attempted to protest by opening yellow umbrellas, a sign ofHong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, they were quickly escorted out of the area by police. Thousands of people lined up all day to enter the Chief Executive’s residence and gardens, including Mr Chan, a Chinese native who […]
Bombs outside two churches in the Pakistani city of Lahore killed 14 people and wounded nearly 80 during Sunday (March 15) services, and witnesses said quick action by a security guard prevented many more deaths. A Pakistani Taliban splinter group claimed responsibility. The blasts went off minutes apart in a majority Christian suburb of the eastern city. Police said it seemed they targeted two churches, one Catholic and one Protestant, that are very close to […]
A 72-year-old nun was gang-raped in the Nadia district of India’s easternWest Bengal state on Friday (March 13) night. According to reports, around a dozen men entered the Convent of Jesus and Mary school and gang-raped the elderly nun when she tried to stop them from looting the school. The nun has been admitted to hospital and her condition is reported to be critical. “It is an unfortunate incident. No such incident has ever happened […]
Iraqi Kurdish authorities said on Saturday (March 14) they have evidence that Islamic State had used chlorine gas as a chemical weapon against their peshmerga fighters. The Security Council of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region (KRSC) said in a statement that the peshmerga had taken soil and clothing samples after an Islamic State suicide bombing in northern Iraq in January. It said laboratory analysis showed “the samples contained levels of chlorine that suggested the substance was […]
At least 10 Americans possibly exposed to the deadly Ebola virus were flown to the United States from Sierra Leone for observation, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Saturday. They will be transported by non-commercial air transport and will be housed near the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the National Institutes of Health in Maryland, or Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, the CDC said. All of the individuals who […]
Japan hosted a United Nations conference on Saturday (March 14) and pledged $4 billion towards a new plan to reduce disaster risk. Addressing the conference in the north-eastern city of Sendai, United Nations Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-Moon said that this was the point to determine where to go next. “This is our first stop on our journey to a new future. To put our people of the world and this world on a sustainable path,” Ban told […]
United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon on Saturday (March 14) feared widespread damage on the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu after it was hit by a powerful cyclone. Winds of up to 250 kilometres an hour (155 mph) ripped metal roofs off houses and downed trees on Saturday, as relief agencies braced for a major rescue operation and unconfirmed reports said dozens had already died. Witnesses described sea surges of up to eight metres and flooding […]
In an audio recording, extremist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) said that it has accepted the pledge of allegiance of the militant group Boko Haram in West Africa.
In the latest report released by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Ebola death toll has reached 10, 000 in West Africa.
A 52-storey builiding in China was built in 19 days!
Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal is visiting the Philippines next week. This is part of a series of high level visits from the UK to the Philippines to strengthen relations between the two countries. This will be her second visit to the country; her last visit was in March 1999. Her Royal Highness’s programme of engagements is essentially in support of her many charities, and she also travels abroad extensively undertaking Foreign and Commonwealth […]
The United States called on China on Thursday to immediately release five women’s rights activists, who were detained for apparently planning to demonstrate against sexual harassment on public transport. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, described the detention of the women in a tweet as a “sad reflection on ‘women’s rights are human rights.’” The women were planning demonstrations in Beijing and the southern city of Guangzhou on the weekend of International Women’s […]
