Three people were killed and 21 injured in an explosion that occurred at a factory in the Liaoning province in northeast China, local media reported on Wednesday. BEIJING (Sputnik) — According to China National Radio (CNR), the blast took place late on Tuesday in the city of Jinzhou in Liaoning province. The explosion occurred at […]
The Associated Press is reporting that medical examiners who performed an autopsy on Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations say they need more tests to determine how and why he fell ill and later died. Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s UN envoy since 2006, died on February 20 at age 64. New York city medical examiners said […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Armenia will make a decision to use Iskander missile systems depending on the development of the situation, defense minister Vigen Sargsyan said in an interview with RIA Novosti. “I can explain the algorithm. The functions and parameters of the weapon allow to cause irreparable damage to the infrastructure of the country, against which […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – A light aircraft exploded Tuesday, February 21 in a “massive fireball” with police saying none of the five people aboard survived as it smashed into a shopping centre near the Australian city of Melbourne, AFP reports. The Beechcraft plane veered just after take-off into the shopping centre, that was still closed, next to […]
Pirates in southern Philippines waters killed one crew member and abducted seven more when they attacked the Vietnamese-flagged MV Giang Hai near Baguan Island in the Sulu Sea. Seventeen of the 25-person crew were rescued by the Philippines Coast Guard, which then pursued the attackers, Reuters reports. Those abducted were Indonesian, Malaysian, Vietnamese, Filipinos, Dutch, […]
New Zealand’s High Court made a decision Monday to uphold a district court’s ruling on the extradition of the founder of the now defunct file-sharing website Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, and three co-accused site executives to the United States for alleged fraud. MOSCOW, February 20 (Sputnik) – Megaupload, a file-sharing and storage website, had been offering […]
The life of one garden snail may not mean very much in the grand scheme of things, but for one Israeli woman who accidentally stepped on one, cracking its brittle shell, it was enough to warrant a visit to the local vet clinic. It’s quite in rainy in Tel Aviv this time of year, and […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Thousands of Catholic faithful gathered in the Philippine capital on Saturday, February 18 for a ‘show of force’ in the biggest rally yet to stop extrajudicial killings in President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war, AFP reports. More than 6,000 people have died since Duterte took office seven months ago and ordered an unprecedented crime […]
