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NEPAL’S Home Ministry said that the death toll due to the devastating 7.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal on Saturday (April 25) had killed more than 1,800 people, a toll predicted to rise as rescuers used their hands to dig for survivors among the rubble. Nepal’s Home Ministry confirmed the death toll had reached 1,805 and that more than 4,700 people had been injured. Amateur video posted on a social media website showed large cracks […]
FOREIGN embassy officials arrived on Nusakambangan island on Saturday (April 25), the maximum security prison where the execution of 10 drug convicts is expected to take place. Indonesia had asked foreign embassies to send representatives to the prison island, diplomats said on Friday (April 24), although an official 72-hour notice of execution has not yet been given. Embassy officials received text messages from the government to send representatives. It was not clear why they were […]
ONE of several convicted drug smugglers on death row in Indonesia has painted three self-portraits which his lawyer presented to the media on Saturday (April 25). Two Australian drug convicts were notified on Saturday (April 25), that they will be executed by firing squad in 72 hours at the Indonesian prison island of Nusakambangan. The Attorney General’s office said notices were delivered that Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, along with one Nigerian and four other […]
PRESIDENT Benigno S. Aquino III has a busy schedule ahead of him as the President and other Southeast Asian leaders gather in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday for the 26th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit. President Aquino, along with the official Philippine delegation, is due to arrive here on Sunday afternoon to attend the summit on April 26 to 28, with nine other ASEAN leaders. On his first day in Kuala Lumpur, the President […]
APRIL 26, 2015 (Eagle News) — Malacanang said it is confident that the Bureau of Customs would do its part effectively as the country becomes part of a more integrated Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), as President Aquino appointed a new head of the bureau. President Aquino appointed Alberto Lina as the new chief of the Bureau of Customs following the resignation of Sunny Sevilla who initiated several reform measures at the bureau. “Para […]
RESCUERS and residents on Saturday (april 25) started the desperate search for people trapped amongst the rubble after a powerful earthquake struck Nepal, killing hundreds. The death toll for the earthquake has risen to 758, a home ministry official has said, of which 467 were in the Kathmandu Valley that is the most heavily population part of the Himalayan region. The magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck Nepal and sent tremors through northern India, toppling a 19th-century […]
(Reuters) – A powerful earthquake struck Nepal and sent tremors through northern India on Saturday, killing hundreds of people, toppling a 19th-century tower in the capital Kathmandu and touching off a deadly avalanche on Mount Everest. There were reports of devastation in outlying, isolated mountainous areas after the midday quake of magnitude 7.9, Nepal’s worst in 81 years, centered 50 miles (80 km) east of the second city, Pokhara. A collapse in communications hampered relief […]
(REUTERS) — Indian media reported at least 17 people were killed in India on Saturday (April 25) when an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale hit neighboring Nepal. The Nepal death toll from the powerful earthquake rose to 688, a senior home ministry official told Reuters at around 1130gmt, with 181 people killed in the capital Kathmandu. The figure was expected to rise rapidly. It was the worst quake to hit the impoverished Himalayan nation […]
(UPDATED 12:43 a.m. April 26) At least 1,457 people were killed in the 7.9 magnitude shallow earthquake that hit Nepal, according to a CNN report that quoted Nepal’s National Emergency Operation Center. Earlier, Reuters reported that some 900 people are dead after a shallow earthquake measuring 7.9 magnitude that struck west of the ancient Nepali capital of Kathmandu on Saturday (April 25) based on initial police estimates. Kathmandu’s main civil hospital said 36 bodies had […]
(Reuters) – An earthquake measuring 7.9 magnitude, and only 2 km deep, struck east of Pokhara in Nepal on Saturday causing buildings in the capital Kathmandu to collapse, injuring many and leaving a pall of dust over the city, witnesses said. At least two people were killed. At the main hospital in Kathmandu, people with broken limbs and arms were being rushed in for treatment. It was unclear how many people have been injured. A […]
The Saudi Arabian man arrested on suspicion of shooting dead two policemen and injuring two others in separate attacks in Riyadh was acting on instructions from the Islamic State group in Syria, the Interior Ministry said on Friday (April 24). Mohammed Abdulrahman Abu Niyan, 23, has confessed to carrying out the shootings in March and April on behalf of Islamic State, after meeting a representative of the group in the Saudi capital, the ministry said. […]
HUNDREDS of Turks and Armenians held a vigil at Istanbul’s main Taksim square on Friday (April 24), for Armenians killed 100 years ago in what they say was a ‘genocide’, a chargeTurkey vehemently dismisses. Under tight security hundreds of people, including artists and human rights activists, gathered around a special memorial, holding red flowers and lighting up candles. The WWI killings is a defining element of Armenian national identity and is recognised as genocide by […]
