ABC News: BANGKOK — A court in military-ruled Myanmar has found a former lawmaker from ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party guilty of terrorism and given him a 148-year prison sentence, which added to previous convictions extends his total prison term to 173 years, a person familiar with the case said Wednesday. The sentence […]
BBC News: North and South Korea have both fired missiles landing in waters off each other’s coasts for the first time. Seoul retaliated on Wednesday three hours after Pyongyang launched a missile that landed less than 60km (37mi) off the South’s city of Sokcho. The South’s military said this was an “unacceptable” breach of its […]
BBC News: North Korea has fired a missile towards the South, which crossed the two countries’ maritime border for the first time since the Korean War. The short-range ballistic missile landed near the South Korean island of Ulleungdo, triggering the island’s air-raid alarm. Residents on the tiny island were told to evacuate and seek shelter. […]
MORBI, India — Police in western India arrested nine people on Monday as they investigated the collapse of a newly repaired 143-year-old suspension bridge in one of the country’s worst accidents in years, officials said. The collapse Sunday evening in Gujarat state plunged hundreds of people into a river, killing at least 134. As families […]
BBC News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Morbi district in western Gujarat state where a bridge collapse killed 135 people in one of India’s worst accidents in years. The 140-year-old bridge over the Machchu river gave way on Sunday, days after it reopened following repairs. Search and rescue operations on the river resumed on […]
ABC News HELSINKI — A helicopter on a leisure flight crashed in central Norway Tuesday killing both passengers and severely injuring the pilot, authorities said. Norwegian police identified the dead passengers as a Norwegian man and a woman in their 60s. The pilot was found alive at the crash site just outside the town of […]
BBC News: A rescue operation – begun after a pedestrian suspension bridge collapsed in India’s western state of Gujarat – has been scaled down as hopes fade of more survivors being found. Officials say 141 people – most of them women, children or elderly – died after the bridge collapsed on Sunday evening. The 140-year-old […]
BBC News: On a bright and cloudless October afternoon, Lee Insook marched into a grassy field in the middle of Seoul, sat down, and began to wail. Clutching a handmade sign that said “I’m so sorry, guys”, she directed her piercing cries at a large stage covered in flowers – a public altar honouring the […]
Reuters: Oct 31 – Canada on Monday imposed fresh sanctions on Iran, marking the fourth package of sanctions it has implemented for alleged human rights violations in that country, the foreign ministry said in a statement. The latest sanctions target four individuals and two entities, including senior officials and Iran’s Law Enforcement Forces, which Canada […]
Reuters: SAO PAULO, Oct 31 – Farmers in Brazil’s biggest farm state are concerned that agricultural exports could be affected by road blockades by truckers protesting the result of Sunday’s election, the head of a state farm lobby told Reuters on Monday. Normando Corral, president of farm group Famato, said the roadblocks in the top […]