MEXICO CITY — A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 struck Mexico at 1:15 pm on Tuesday afternoon, toppling buildings, rattling the capital and sending people flooding into the streets for the second time in just two weeks after the devasting and stronger 8.1 magnitude on September 8 in the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca. N...
WORLD : US President Donald Trump spoke to the United Nations General Assembly for the first time as president on Tuesday morning. New York Post reports that the president, in a fiery speech, vowed to “destroy” North Korea if it continues to threaten the US and its allies with nuclear weapons. “The United States has great strength and patienc...
World : The Caribbean island of Dominica has been 'devastated' by Category 5 Hurricane Maria as it made landfall on Monday night, the country's Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit tells CNN. He said , " We're just waiting for daybreak to do an assessment of the damage. Our first order of business will be search and rescue to ensu...
Bangladesh : According to United Nations, there are now 409,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled Myanmar into Bangladesh since violence erupted in the Myanmar's state of Rakhine on August 25. The influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees has overwhelmed the government of Bangladesh as it continues to house these refugees, promising...
London : On Friday at around 8.20 a.m. local time an improvised explosive device, or IED, detonated inside a bag bearing the name of German supermarket Lidl, injuring 29 at Parsons Green subway station in west London, most with flash burns. Fitted with a timer, the device did not detonate fully, Newsweek reports. A day after the blast, the Kent Pol...
KUALA LUMPUR: Twenty-three people died after a fire broke out at the Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah tahfiz (religious) school on Thursday morning. Among the victims were 21 students of the school, age ranging from 6 to 16, and two teachers, age 25 and 26. The City Fire and Rescue Department received information on the blaze at about 5:00 am. According...
The mastermind of China's biggest Ponzi scheme, Ding Ning, was sentenced to life in jail by a Beijing court on Tuesday, Xinhua News Agency reported. Ding, 35, head of peer-to-peer online financing firm Ezubao and chairman of Yucheng Group, was convicted of fraudulent fundraising, smuggling precious metal, and owning guns illegally, according to a j...
Paris — Tens of thousands turned out Tuesday for mass demonstrations intended to protest the country’s new labor code due to be adopted by the government on September 22. The rallies, launched by France's biggest trade union, the hard-left CGT, were the first major street protests faced by President Emmanuel Macron whose labour proposals are in...
The UN Security Council has imposed new sanctions on North Korea after its sixth and largest nuclear test on September 3, detonating a powerful nuclear device that it claimed was a hydrogen bomb that could be miniaturised and loaded on a long-range missile capable of reaching the mainland United States. The sanctions voted upon on Monday include li...
Mexico - Ninety people are now confirmed dead in the quake that struck off Mexico's southern coast on Thursday with a magnitude of 8.1. It was the most powerful earthquake in a century and was felt by tens of millions in the country. The states of Chiapas and Oaxaca are the two areas that suffered the most, with thousand of homes, ...
