Death toll in China power plant accident climbs to 74 The death toll in the collapse of a platform under construction at a power plant in eastern China has risen to 74, with two others injured, as China’s chief safety inspector arrived to oversee an investigation, state media said on […]
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One dead in attack on missionaries’ home in France, hunt under way for suspect Police are searching for an armed man after finding a dead woman in a retirement home where some 60 missionaries are living in southwestern France, sources close to the matter said on Friday. According to one […]
ISIS Bomb Aimed at Shiite Pilgrims in Iraq Kills at Least 80 ERBIL, Iraq — At least 80 people, many of them Shiite pilgrims on their way home to Iran, were killed on Thursday when an Islamic State suicide bomber detonated a truck filled with explosives at a roadside service […]
A 7.3-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Japan Off the Coast of Fukushima At first, it was 2011 all over again. “It really came back. And it was so awful. The sways to the side were huge,” Kazuhiro Onuki said after northeastern Japan was jolted Tuesday by a magnitude-7.4 earthquake, the strongest since […]
West voices growing concern at Myanmar’s handling of crisis: sources By Antoni Slodkowski and Michelle Nichols YANGON/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Western nations are increasingly concerned at how Aung San Suu Kyi’s government is dealing with violence in Myanmar’s divided northwest, with the U.S. envoy to the United Nations privately warning […]
At least 40 killed in east China scaffolding collapse BEIJING (AP) — At least 40 people were killed in a scaffolding collapse Thursday morning at a construction site in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi, state media reported. A work platform at a power plant cooling tower being built in […]
Why the electoral college matters Donald Trump is not yet president-elect of the US. He still has to win 270 votes in the electoral college on 19 December, and, failing that, a vote in the House of Representatives. In most years, this constitutionally defined process is a non-event. The electors, […]
President-elect Donald Trump says Nigel Farage would make a ‘great’ ambassador to US US Presidential-elect Donald Trump Monday said UKIP leader, Nigel Farage “would do a great job” as Great Britain’s ambassador to The United States. “Many people would like to see Nigel Farage represent Great Britain as their Ambassador […]
Donald Trump vows to withdraw from Trans-Pacific Partnership ‘on day one’ WASHINGTON: Donald Trump on Monday announced the United States would signal its withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal on his first day in the White House, as one of six immediate steps aimed at “putting America first.” […]
Pakistan army chief General Raheel Sharif, a known India-baiter, on way out ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI: Ending weeks of suspense, Pakistan’s army chief General Raheel Sharif, who saw his legacy besmirched by surgical strikes+ by India’s special forces across the Line of Control in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, began his farewell visits a […]
