Reuters: WELLINGTON, Feb 14 – New Zealand declared a national state of emergency for only the third time in its history on Tuesday as Cyclone Gabrielle caused widespread flooding, landslides and huge ocean swells, forcing evacuations and stranding people on roof tops. About 225,000 people were left without electricity. “It has been a big night […]
BBC News: The sensors from a suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down after crossing the US have been recovered from the Atlantic Ocean, the US military says. Search crews found “significant debris from the site, including all of the priority sensor and electronics pieces identified”, said US Northern Command. The FBI is examining the items, […]
ABC News: BEIJING — Global stock markets were mixed Monday ahead of a U.S. inflation update traders worry might lead to more interest rate hikes. London opened higher and Shanghai advanced. Frankfurt, Tokyo and Hong Kong declined. Oil prices fell. Traders hope Tuesday’s inflation data will show upward pressure on U.S. prices is easing, which […]
Reuters: ANTAKYA/ELBISTAN, Turkey, Feb 13 – Rescuers pulled a woman alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Turkey on Monday and another team was digging a tunnel to reach what was believed to be a trapped grandmother, mother and 30-day-old baby, broadcaster CNN Turk reported. A week after a major earthquake struck Turkey […]
Reuters: Feb 13 – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will return to work on Monday afternoon after successful sinus surgery, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said. Kishida had the surgery in a Tokyo hospital on Saturday to treat a chronic sinus condition. “We have heard that the surgery was a success, and his post-operative process […]
BBC News: The US has shot down another unidentified flying object in the fourth military operation of its kind this month. President Joe Biden ordered it to be downed near Lake Huron, close to the Canadian border, on Sunday afternoon. The object could have interfered with commercial air traffic as it was traveling at 20,000ft […]
BBC News: The staccato instructions come from the Ukrainian army escort taking us to a military position in battle-scarred Bakhmut, a city once famed for its sparkling wines. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has called the eastern city “our fortress”. Russian forces have spent the past six months trying to capture Bakhmut. Now they have intensified […]
BBC News: The US believes that flying objects shot down over North American airspace on Friday and Saturday were balloons, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Mr Schumer made his comments before the US shot down another flying object on Sunday. While he didn’t say specifically that the objects from Friday and Saturday were […]
BBC News: Officials in Turkey say 113 arrest warrants have been issued in connection with the construction of buildings that collapsed in Monday’s earthquake. Turkish police have already taken at least 12 people into custody, including building contractors. Meanwhile, unrest in southern Turkey has disrupted rescue efforts in some places. The number of people confirmed […]
BBC News: The tents are so close to the border wall between Syria and Turkey, they are almost touching it. Those living here on the Syrian side may have been displaced by the country’s more than decade-old civil war. But they could also be survivors of the earthquake. Catastrophes overlap in Syria. The earthquake, untroubled […]