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US Secretary of State John Kerry has met with his Russian counterpart in a bid to defuse tensions ahead of a secession referendum in Crimea. At a UN meeting Thursday, Russia and Ukraine insisted they did not want war. Top US diplomat, John Kerry, has met with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in London on Friday in a last-minute bid to stave off escalating tensions in the East-West crisis over Ukraine. Kerry was expected to […]
Dozens of people have been killed in northern Nigeria in what is believed to be clashes between rival ethnic groups. The region has seen months of violence over farmland. A large gang of gunmen on motorcycles swept through villages in Nigeria’s northern Katsina state, about 400 kilometers (248 miles) north of the capital, Abuja. The exact death toll is unclear, with police putting it at 40, while survivors have said it reaches beyond 100. The […]
17 were injured after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake shook southern Japan. No tsunami warnings have been issued.
On the 7th day of the search operations for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight, the international search team widens its search to include the Indian Ocean.
The New York gas explosion that resulted in the collapse of two buildings has resulted in 8 deaths and 68 injured.
(Reuters) – Search planes were flying on Thursday to an area where a Chinese satellite has seen objects that could be debris from the Malaysian airliner missing for almost six days, but those waters had been checked before and nothing found, officials said. At the same time, China heaped pressure on Malaysia to improve its coordination over the search for the Malaysia Airlines plane, which disappeared early on Saturday on a flight from Kuala Lumpur […]
(Reuters) – Malaysia’s military has traced what could have been the jetliner missing for almost five days to an area south of the Thai holiday island of Phuket, hundreds of miles to the west of its last known position, the country’s air force chief said on Wednesday. His statement followed a series of conflicting accounts of the flight path of the Boeing 777-200ER with 239 people on board, which left authorities uncertain even which ocean […]
(Reuters) – Two New York buildings collapsed on Wednesday in an explosion believed to be caused by a gas leak, killing two people, injuring at least 22, and setting off a search for more feared trapped in the debris, officials said. A blast that scattered debris onto nearby rooftops brought down neighboring five-story buildings with a total of 15 apartments at about 9:30 a.m. (1330 GMT) on the largely residential block at East 116th Street […]
(Reuters) – Malaysia’s military believes a jetliner missing for almost four days turned and flew hundreds of kilometers to the west after it last made contact with civilian air traffic control off the country’s east coast, a senior officer told Reuters on Tuesday. In one of the most baffling mysteries in recent aviation history, a massive search operation for the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER has so far found no trace of the aircraft or the […]
Today marks the third anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the worst nuclear disaster in Japan.
(Reuters) – Officials investigating the disappearance of a Malaysian jet with 239 people on board suspect it may have disintegrated in mid-flight, a senior source said on Sunday, as Vietnam reported a possible sighting of wreckage from the plane. International police agency Interpol confirmed that two passengers on the flight had used stolen Austrian and Italian passports, raising suspicions of foul play. An Interpol spokeswoman said a check of all documents used to board the […]
