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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) – As Uber launched its service in Argentina on Tuesday (April 12), taxi drivers choked downtown Buenos Aires traffic to protest the service. The private car company, which is not yet regulated in Buenos Aires, claims to have thousands of drivers on the streets of the South American capital. It launched its service by offering users two free trips, as long as each trip was below 100 pesos (USD 5.73). Taxi drivers […]
A SINKHOLE in the middle of a California street. This was what a policeman in California recently captured in a video of the California city of Madera on Monday (April 11). The depression in the residential road was already cordoned off by police, when the street slowly started collapsing into an underground sewage line, creating a hole 15 to 20 feet deep, according to Madera police. It’s unclear what provoked the collapse, but it […]
Reuters – North Korea’s state-run television KRT on Tuesday (April 12) released still photographs of soldiers conducting a live-fire drill at night time. KRT said the soldiers trained for a possible surprise landing of an enemy while firing artilleries towards the sea. KRT, however, did not specify the date or the location of the drill. North Korean Director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People’s Army, Hwang Pyong So, Director of the General […]
SCHIPHOL AIRPORT, AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) – Access to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport returned to normal in the early hours of Wednesday (April 13) after temporarily closure of part of its shopping area due to a suspicious situation, local media reported. Part of Schiphol Plaza – the commercial area located at the entrance of the airport and accessible to both passengers and visitors – was evacuated on Tuesday (April 12) evening around 9.40 P.M. (0740GMT) and a […]
PARIS, France (Reuters) – A painting discovered two years ago in a leaky attic in the south of France is by Italian master Caravaggio and worth an estimated 120 million euros, experts said on Tuesday (April 12). The painting, entitled “Judith Beheading Holofernes”, lay hidden for 150 years, members of the firm Eric Turquin said, before being discovered by a family in Toulouse who went into the eaves of their house looking for the source […]
Reuters – A six-storey building under construction collapsed in Uganda’s capital Kampala on Monday, leaving at least one dead. Seven people have so far been taken out from the rubble. The injured have been rushed to hospitals around Kampala. An unknown number of people are believed to be still trapped underneath the rubble. Some of the trapped have made phone calls to their family members and friends. A witness Hope Erumana describes the incident: “What […]
HANI, DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – A vehicle laden with explosives rammed into a gendarmerie base in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast late on Monday (April 11), killing one soldier and wounding 47 others, the military said on Tuesday (April 12). Thirty-nine soldiers and eight civilians were wounded in the attack in the town of Hani, north of the provincial capital of Diyarbakir, according to a written statement. About 20 ambulances rushed to the scene, the military […]
Reuters – A fire broke out at a garment factory near Mumbai in India’s western Maharashtra state on Tuesday (April 12). Around 100 workers were feared trapped inside. The fire broke out early morning on the ground floor of the factory at Bhiwandi, about 35 kilometres from Mumbai. Nine fire trucks and six water tankers were rushed to the site to douse the flames. Some workers took refuge on the roof of the building and […]
KOLLAM, India (AFP) — Five men wanted over a massive explosion during a banned fireworks display that killed more than 100 people in southern Indian surrendered to police early Tuesday, a senior officer said. The blast ripped through concrete buildings at a Hindu temple complex in Kerala state where thousands had gathered on Saturday night to watch the display. Police had been hunting for the five who went missing after the disaster and initial charges […]
HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – The effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons has been made more complex by North Korea’s repeated provocations said Japanese Foreign Minister, Fumio Kishida, during a news conference on Monday (April 11) The meeting of Group of Seven most industrial nations (G7) Foreign ministers closed on Monday in the city of Hiroshima with a call for nations to meet the conditions for a nuclear free world. Hiroshima is one of […]
HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – US Secretary of State, John Kerry, called for renewed efforts to end nuclear threats on Monday (April 11) after becoming the first U.S. secretary of state to pay respects at Hiroshima’s memorial to victims of the 1945 U.S. nuclear attack. Kerry described the museum as a “gut-wrenching” reminder of the need to work for a world free of nuclear weapons. “We came here and drew from the experience of touring in […]
NOVOSELITSKOYE, STAVROPOL REGION, Russia (Reuters) – Security was tightened on Monday (April 11) in Russia’s southern Stavropol region after three men including at least one suicide bomber attacked a rural police station. Russia’s Interior Ministry said police in the affected area had been put on a high state of alert, and security measures were tightened at airports and railway stations in the region. Soldiers and police in the village blocked streets in the village with […]
