The death toll from a powerful earthquake that rocked Mexico on Tuesday has surged to 224 people, including 117 in the capital, said Interior Minister Miguel Osorio Chong. The dead included at least 21 children crushed beneath a primary school ...
Read More »22 injured in London Underground bomb attack
LONDON: At least 22 people were injured after a bomb detonated on a packed London Underground train on Friday, setting off a “wall of fire” that burned commuters in Britain’s fifth terror attack in six months. Witnesses saw passengers with ...
Read More »As Germans prepare to vote, a mystery grows: where are the Russians?
BY GRIFF WITTE: In 2015, suspected Russian hackers broke into the computer networks of the German Parliament and made off with a mother lode of data — 16 gigabytes, enough to account for a million or more emails. Ever since, ...
Read More »‘If we can feed 160m, we can also feed 700,000 Rohingya refugees’
The premier also directed the local government to make sure the sick and wounded Rohingya were well taken care of in the hospitals and they receive immediate medical attention. https://youtu.be/29sDlNzPMwM Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said Bangladesh can feed ...
Read More »Dalai Lama says Buddha would have helped Myanmar’s Muslims
The Dalai Lama has spoken out for the first time about the Rohingya refugee crisis, saying Buddha would have helped Muslims fleeing violence in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh in recent weeks after violence flared in ...
Read More »Myanmar’s Suu Kyi slams ‘misinformation’ over Rohingya crisis
WORLD: Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday alleged a “huge iceberg of misinformation” was distorting the picture of the Rohingya crisis, which has forced 125,000 of the Muslim minority to flee to Bangladesh. In her first comments ...
Read More »Merkel uses last parliamentary speech before elections to call for tough EU line on Turkey
HEIDELBERG: Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, called for a new hardline approach in Europe’s relations with Turkey on Tuesday, describing developments in the country as “worrying”. “The EU must not be divided on this issue. That would greatly weaken Europe,” she ...
Read More »BRICS name militant groups as regional security concern
XIAMEN: The leaders of the five emerging market BRICS powers have for the first time named militant groups allegedly based in Pakistan as a regional security concern and called for their patrons to be held to account. India welcomed the ...
Read More »Trump says ‘appeasement’ will not work after North Korea nuke test
US President Donald Trump declared on Sunday that “appeasement with North Korea” will not work, after Pyongyang claimed it had successfully tested a missile-ready hydrogen bomb. “North Korea has conducted a major Nuclear Test,” Trump said. “Their words and actions ...
Read More »At least 13 dead as van rams into crowd in Barcelona ‘terror attack’
BARCELONA: At least 13 people were killed on Thursday when a driver deliberately slammed a van into crowds on Barcelona’s most popular street in what police said was a “terror attack”. The attack, the latest in a wave of vehicle ...
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