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(Reuters) – More than 20 people were killed and rioters attacked Vietnam’s biggest steel plant overnight as violent anti-China protests spread to the centre of the country a day after arson and looting in the south, a doctor and newspapers said on Thursday. A doctor at a hospital in central Ha Tinh province said five Vietnamese workers and 16 other people described as Chinese were killed in the rioting, one of the worst breakdowns in […]
Two people were killed and twenty-two other injured when gunmen opened fire on anti-government protesters in Bangkok, Thailand.
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(Reuters) – More than 20 structures, including several homes, burned to the ground and thousands of people were ordered to evacuate on Wednesday, as a wind-lashed wildfire roared out of control in the heart of a Southern California coastal community. The fire, which erupted shortly before 11 a.m. in Carlsbad, some 25 miles north of San Diego, quickly became the most pressing battle for crews fighting flames across the region amid soaring temperatures and hot […]
More than a hundred people storm the fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla,, in the latest attempt by migrants to breach the border. Katherine Ferrer reports from Madrid, Spain
Hawaii’s Department of Land and Natural Resources says black band coral disease is affecting corals in Kauai. Des Acenas reports from Hawaii
BY HUMEYRA PAMUK AND ORHAN COSKUN (Reuters) – An explosion and fire in a coal mine in western Turkey killed at least 151 miners and trapped hundreds more on Tuesday, with the death toll expected to rise in the country’s worst mining accident for more than two decades. Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said 787 workers had been in the mine in Soma, around 120 km (75 miles) northeast of the Aegean coastal city of Izmir, when the blast occurred. […]
An Israeli court has handed down a prison sentence to Ehud Olmert on bribery charges. The former Israeli prime minister had been found guilty of a illegal real estate scheme during his time as mayor of Jerusalem. A Tel Aviv district court sentenced ex-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to six years in prison over a real estate scheme in Jerusalem, where he served as mayor from 1993 to 2003. The 68-year-old former head of government […]
The European Court of Justice has ruled that citizens have a right to request that Google delete their data from search results in a case that sought to see whether private citizens could leave the engine’s grid. In the case, which began in 2011, Spain’s data protection authority had ordered Google to remove links to more than 100 online articles the agency considered potentially defamatory in a move that had stoked concerns about freedom […]
(Reuters) — A Vietnamese patrol vessel on Monday (May 12) hit back at Chinese ships after being attacked with water cannons and blocked from approaching an oil rig recently stationed by Beijing in the disputed South China Sea, state media reported. Tensions rose in the resource-rich South China Sea last week after China positioned a giant oil rig in an area also claimed by Vietnam. Each country accused the other of ramming its ships near the disputed Paracel Islands. Two journalists from the Tuoi Tre […]
The United States has deployed manned surveillance plants to help in the search of more than 200 school girls abducted by a Nigerian terrorist group.
CREDIT: REUTERS/NASA/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS BY ALISTER DOYLE (Reuters) – Vast glaciers in West Antarctica seem to be locked in an irreversible thaw linked to global warming that may push up sea levels for centuries, scientists said on Monday. Six glaciers, eaten away from below by a warming of sea waters around the frozen continent, were flowing fast into the Amundsen Sea, according to the report based partly on satellite radar measurements from 1992 to 2011. Evidence shows “a […]
