Philippine authorities evacuated almost 150,000 people from their homes and shuttered financial markets, government offices, businesses and schools on Wednesday (July 16) as typhoon Rammasun gathered strength and hit the capital, Manila. The typhoon, the strongest to hit the country this year, has already torn through eastern islands, toppling trees and power lines and causing blackouts. On Wednesday (July 16), it brought storm surges to the Manila Bay area and prompted disaster officials to evacuate […]
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International Aid for Humanity held in Subang Jaya, Malaysia
As part of the activities of the Iglesia Ni Cristo’s Countdown to the Centennial, Subang Jaya, Malaysia recently held an International Aid for Humanity. This mission primarily aims to extend outreach services like relief and health-care missions where INC members can express love and compassion to their countrymen in need. Robina Tanawin reports.
Eight killed in blasts in Egypt’s Sinai region
CAIRO Sun Jul 13, 2014 7:11pm EDT (Reuters) – One security officer and seven others were killed in two successive explosions around security areas in Egypt‘s Sinai region, near the border with Israel, the Interior Ministry and security officials said. Egypt has been hit by an Islamist insurgency led by Sinai-based militants, who have mainly targeted security forces since last year’s army ouster of elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. Hundreds of soldiers and police officers […]
Japan’s ruling party loses local vote after security policy shift
By Linda Sieg TOKYO Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:10pm EDT (Reuters) – A candidate backed by Japan’s ruling coalition lost a race for a governorship on Sunday in an apparent backlash against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s decision to end a security policy that has kept the military from fighting abroad since 1945. The election in the western prefecture of Shiga was the first high-profile poll since Abe’s cabinet adopted a resolution ending the ban on […]
Israel holds off on escalating Gaza barrage; West wants truce
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams GAZA/JERUSALEM Sun Jul 13, 2014 8:10pm EDT (Reuters) – Israel appeared to hold off on a threatened escalation of its week-old Gaza Strip barrage on Monday despite balking at Western calls for a ceasefire with an equally defiant Hamas. On Sunday, the Israeli military had warned residents of the northern border town of Beit Lahiya to leave or risk their lives when, after nightfall, it planned to intensify air […]
Gaza death toll rises; Hamas fires rockets at Tel Aviv
BY NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI AND MAAYAN LUBELL (Reuters) – An Israeli air strike on the home of Gaza’s police chief killed 18 people on Saturday, Gaza’s health ministry said, and Hamas fired the largest salvo of rockets yet on Tel Aviv since the start of the Jewish state’s offensive in the Palestinian enclave. The strike on the home of Tayseer Al-Batsh in Gaza City was the deadliest bombing since Israel launched its offensive on Tuesday to […]
China children’s bus crash kills 11
A crash in China’s southern Yunnan province resulted in 11 dead, including 8 children, when a school bus tumbled down into a reservoir.
U.S. ready to broker Gaza ceasefire
The United States is prepared to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza as they exchange aerial strikes and rocket fires.
Obama tells Israel U.S. ready to help end hostilities
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama expressed concern to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday about the risk of an escalation of hostilities in the region and said the United States was ready to help bring them to an end, the White House said. “The United States remains prepared to facilitate a cessation of hostilities, including a return to the November 2012 ceasefire agreement,” the White House said Obama told Netanyahu in a phone call. […]
Obama tells Israel U.S. ready to help end hostilities
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama expressed concern to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday about the risk of an escalation of hostilities in the region and said the United States was ready to help bring them to an end, the White House said. “The United States remains prepared to facilitate a cessation of hostilities, including a return to the November 2012 ceasefire agreement,” the White House said Obama told Netanyahu in a phone call. […]
Eleven killed in China school bus crash
BEIJING Thu Jul 10, 2014 10:27pm EDT (Reuters) – Eleven people died, including eight children, in a school bus crash in China‘s southern Hunan province, state media said on Friday, the latest in a string of traffic accidents that have fueled public anger over unsafe transport for school children. A bus taking kindergartners home on a rural, mountainous road near Xiangtan city tumbled into a reservoir on Thursday afternoon, state-run China News Service reported, killing […]
Gaza dead reach 78 as Israelis hint at invasion
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jeffrey Heller GAZA/JERUSALEM Thu Jul 10, 2014 8:24pm EDT (Reuters) – At least 78 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in Israel’s Gaza offensive, Palestinian officials said on Thursday as militants in the enclave kept up rocket attacks on Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities. As Israeli officials seemed to hint at a possible invasion by ground forces, eight members of one family, including five children, were killed in […]
