Reuters: BEIJING, Nov 27 – A train ran into a group of railway workers on Thursday, killing 11 and injuring two, officials in China’s southwestern city of Kunming said, the deadliest rail accident in more than a decade. The train, testing earthquake detection equipment, hit workers on a curved section of track at the city’s […]
ABC: DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced Thursday to 21 years in prison in three corruption cases related to allocations of land in a government project. She was sentenced to death earlier this month for crimes against humanity involving the crackdown on the mass uprising that ended her 15-year rule last year. She is in […]
ABC: COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka stopped passenger trains and closed roads in some parts of the country where landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains have caused more than 30 deaths, officials said Thursday. The government’s disaster management center said 18 of the reported deaths occurred in the tea-growing, mountainous regions of Badulla and […]
BBC: Two National Guard soldiers are critically injured after being gunned down in Washington DC, less than two blocks from the White House, in what the city’s mayor called a “targeted shooting”. Police said a lone suspect opened fire on two National Guard members from West Virginia on Wednesday afternoon, before being subdued by other […]
BBC: A woman has died and a man has been seriously injured after a shark attack at a remote beach in the Australian state of New South Wales. Police said the woman, believed to be aged in her 20s, died at the scene, while the man, also believed to be in his 20s, was airlifted […]
BBC: At least 44 people have been killed in a huge fire that has engulfed multiple high-rise buildings in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district. There are reports that some residents were trapped in the building, and police say 279 people are still missing. More than 760 firefighters were deployed to tackle the blaze on Wednesday […]
BBC: A group of military officers say they have seized control of Guinea-Bissau amid reports that the president, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, has been arrested. Shortly after gunshots were heard in the capital, Bissau, government sources told the BBC that Embaló had been detained. The officers then appeared on state TV, saying they had suspended the […]
BBC: At least 13 people have been killed and 15 others injured in a huge fire that has engulfed multiple high-rise buildings in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district. The blaze broke out at the Wang Fuk Court housing complex at 14:51 local time (06:51 GMT) and was upgraded to a level four alarm within 40 […]
Reuters: TAIPEI, Nov 26 – Taiwan will introduce a $40-billion supplementary defence budget to underscore its determination to defend itself in the face of a rising threat from China, President Lai Ching-te said on Wednesday. China, which views democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory, has ramped up military and political pressure over the past five […]
ABC: NEW DELHI — A coalition of 10 major Indian trade unions mounted nationwide protests Wednesday against the government’s rollout of new labor codes, saying the sweeping changes were “deceptive fraud” against workers. Demonstrations were held in several parts of the country as unions representing millions of laborers and farmers accused the government of pushing through […]