At least six people were injured when thousands fled for higher ground after Japanese authorities issued an imminent tsunami warning following a powerful 7.4 earthquake and a series of aftershocks off Fukushima Prefecture. The quake struck 67km northeast of Iwaki, a city located in the southern part of the Hamadori coastal region of Fukushima Prefecture, […]
The shocking moment a young girl was attacked by a tiger at a market in northwest Saudi Arabia was captured on video, stirring outrage among people in the region. Footage from the scene shows a tiger being walked around on a leash as entertainment in an open area near a market in Sakaka. A few […]
Two-year-old Intan Olivia Banjarnahor wore a lace-trimmed pink hat and twirled around in a knee-length dress on Sunday, the morning she was fatally injured in a Molotov cocktail attack at a church in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province, her father recalled. The victims of the attack were all children. Apart from Intan, whose family routinely attended […]
The death toll from early Sunday’s train derailment near the northern Indian city of Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh has passed 100, local media reported. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The death toll has climbed to 100, with 200 passengers reported injured, according to the Indian television channel NDTV. It is not clear what caused 14 railcars to […]
Thousands of yellow-clad Malaysian protestors rallied Saturday in downtown Kuala Lumpur, where they called for upholding parliamentary democracy and criticized the rule of a prime minister clouded by corruption allegations. The Bersih 5 rally took place although the leader of the grassroots movement as well as several other organizers and supporters were arrested ahead of […]
At least 27 people have been injured after a man set fire to a branch of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in the Melbourne suburb of Springvale, according to local media reports. Police say the man has been hospitalized in serious condition. Several people who were inside the bank at the time of the incident […]
The Indian Government admitted in Parliament that 20 million Bangladeshi migrants may be staying clandestinely in India and that many could pose a grave security threat. Estimates of undocumented Bangladeshis living in India have risen from 12 million in 2001 to the present level. New Delhi (Sputnik) – “As per available inputs, there are around […]
At first, it sounds like a charming love story: Playmates who grow up side by side in an Iranian village go on to get married. But when Leila was wedded to Ali, she was 10 years old. He was 15. “It was nighttime and I was asleep. My neighbors rang the doorbell and came in […]
