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KAENA POINT, Hawaii (Reuters) — Rescue teams searched for a downed Army Black Hawk helicopter with five crew members aboard that was last reported off the west coast of Hawaii, the United States Coast Guard said on Wednesday (August 16). Coast Guard Hercules and Army Black Hawk aircrews spotted debris near Kaena Point, Oahu at 11:28 p.m. local time (0928 GMT) after staff at Wheeler Army Airfield said they had lost contact with one of their […]
SUNSARI, Nepal (Reuters) — Residents of floo-hit Sunsari District in southern Nepal said on Wednesday (August 16) they have been left with nothing, after the Koshi River overflowed with monsoon rains and swept away their belongings. The death toll from the flash floods and landslides that have hit Nepal have left at least 115 people dead, officials said on Tuesday (August 15), with an additional 38 people still missing. Relief workers said 26 of Nepal’s 75 […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — At least 37 people died in an hours-long jail riot in Venezuela’s southern state of Amazonas, officials said Wednesday. The prosecutors’ office said an investigation had been launched into “the deaths of 37 people” in the facility in the town of Puerto Ayacucho. Governor Liborio Guarulla had earlier tweeted that a “massacre” took place with at least 35 corpses counted. Prosecutors said 14 officials were wounded in the violence which […]
UNITED STATES (AFP) – Iraq has asked the United Nations to assist it with gathering evidence of crimes committed by the Islamic State group and said it was working with Britain to draft a Security Council resolution to establish an investigation. In a letter dated August 9 but given to the press Wednesday, Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jafaari, congratulating his country’s army on its “brilliant military victories” against the militant force that once controlled vast […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) – The top American law enforcement official Wednesday escalated a war of words with the nation’s third largest city Chicago over its resistance to tougher immigration policies. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s comments were part of efforts to pressure “sanctuary cities” to increase cooperation with immigration enforcement or lose federal funding. Instead, Chicago last week sued the Trump administration over the funding threats. California, the most populous United States state, and the […]
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) – Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has ordered the reopening of the border with Qatar to facilitate the annual hajj pilgrimage, state media said Thursday, in the first signs of a thaw after the region’s worst diplomatic crisis in years. The border had been shut after regional kingpin Saudi Arabia as well as Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates severed diplomatic and trade ties with Qatar on June 5, accusing […]
by Saidu Bah Agence France Presse FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AFP) — Sierra Leone began a week of mourning Wednesday as it emerged that 105 children were among more than 300 people who perished in mudslides and torrential flooding, in one of the country’s worst natural disasters. With 600 people still missing in Freetown, President Ernest Bai Koroma described the humanitarian challenge ahead as “overwhelming.” He said flags would fly at half-mast. He called for urgent […]
(Eagle News) — It was an inspiring scene. South Africans singing in joy as they planted pecan trees and olive trees, as well as various vegetables in a land transformed into an eco-farm by the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ) to help the people of Ladybrand and other nearby towns in South Africa. In South Africa, where there are many unemployed, this 508-hectare eco-farm, is now seen as the land of promise by […]
ENIWA, Japan (AFP) — Some 300 Japanese and United States military personnel on Wednesday carried out live-fire artillery training in northern Japan, officials said, amid high regional tensions over North Korean missile threats. The drill, part of a 19-day exercise, came after a tense war of words between the US and North Korea over Pyongyang’s threats to fire missiles towards the Pacific island of Guam. Troops from Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) and US Marines fired live ammunition […]
GAIBANDHA, Bangladesh (Reuters) — Floods in north Bangladesh have killed at least 39 people in the last few days and affected more than 500,000, many of them fleeing their homes to shelter in camps, officials said on Tuesday (August 15). The situation could get worse as swollen rivers carry rainwater from neighbouring India downstream into the low-lying and densely populated country, they said. In Gaibandha in Northern Bangladesh, soldiers were seen reinforcing houses with sandbags. […]
Reuters — Britain’s most advanced and biggest warship, 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, continued its sea trials on Tuesday (August 15) off the Isle of Wight in England. The ship, which measures 280 metres and can travel 500 miles a day, set sail in June from Rosyth dockyard in Fife where it was built. It took eight years to build HMS Queen Elizabeth and along with its sister ship, HMS Prince of Wales, it […]
BEIJING, China (CCTV) — United States Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for a three-day diplomatic visit. The top US military officer was greeted with a welcoming ceremony by his Chinese counterpart, General Fang Fenghui, chief of the Joint Staff Department under China’s Central Military Commission. While in Beijing, Dunford will hold talks with Chinese officials about US-China military cooperation and Korean Peninsula tensions. […]
