According to media reports, a blast has hit a warehouse storing chemical compounds in the Chinese city of Jinjiang north of Shanghai. BEIJING (Sputnik) – A blast has hit a warehouse storing chemical compounds in the Chinese city of Jinjiang north of Shanghai, local media reported Friday. Read more: sputniknews.com
9th Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership Meeting takes place in Mongolia Ulaanbaatar, 21.04.16/ The 9th Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership (ASEP9) Meeting starts today in Ulaanbaatar, as the first meeting of the nine side events taking place in Mongolia ahead of the 11th ASEM Summit. The ASEP9, as an inter-parliamentary forum for exchanging of diplomacies and partnership proposals, hosts […]
‘Security reasons’ are behind deportation of Sputnik Turkey bureau chief Tural Kerimov, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey Numan Kurtulmuş said Wednesday. ANKARA (Sputnik) – The decision to ban Sputnik-Turkey bureau chief Tural Kerimov’s entry into Turkey was made by Turkey’s security organs, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş said Wednesday. Read more: sputniknews.com
As many as 327 people were injured and 28 killed in what is believed to be a car bomb explosion in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Tuesday, local media reported, citing health officials. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, a heavy explosion took place in the Pul-e-Mahmood Khan area of Kabul, where the […]
Israeli police has determined a bus blast in Jerusalem on Monday as a terrorist attack, a local police spokesman said. TEL-AVIV (Sputnik) — At least 16 people were wounded in the blast at the corner of Bar’am Road and Hebron Road, two of them are in serious condition, according to earlier reports. “An explosive device […]
Several aftershocks, one of which measured a magnitude of 5.3 on the USGS scale, have hit Kumamoto prefecture, Japan. It comes just days after two deadly earthquakes hit the region, killing 42 and injuring more than 1,000 others. A tsunami warning has not been issued, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported. The aftershocks measured 3.9 and 3.4 […]
In the early morning on Friday, North Korea tried unsuccessfully to launch a ballistic missile Musudan, BM-25, according to reports. An anonymous defense official placed the attempt at 5:03 local time (2033 on Thursday UTC). According to South Korean news agency Yonhap, the missile’s range is 3,000 to 4,000 kilometers (about 1850 to 2500 miles), […]
Nearly 70 thousand people have been evacuated in Japan’s Kumamoto Prefecture, located on the island of Kyushu, after a series of powerful earthquakes struck the area, local media reported Saturday. TOKYO (Sputnik) – About 69,000 people have been evacuated in Japan’s Kumamoto Prefecture located on the island of Kyushu after numerous powerful earthquakes, local media […]
