A Japanese woman named Yuka Kinoshita (木下ゆうか) is living the dream of being able eat a variety of food and a lot of it, apparently without any ill health effects. Kinoshita, a self-described “professional competitive eater,” is also a dedicated YouTuber. According to her YouTube profile, Kinoshita also earns a living partly by promoting the […]
Two weeks after the industrial explosions at the Port of Tianjin in Tianjin, China, the death toll continues to rise, dozens of people remain missing or unaccounted for, and others are still hospitalized. The latest published figures are according to China Radio International: 135 dead, 38 missing, 582 currently hospitalized (of which 36 are listed […]
A fire broke out in a steel factory located near the Haneda Airport in Ota, Tokyo. The incident occurred hours after a blast at a US military base in the Japanese city of Sagamihara. It’s unclear if the two incidents are linked, Japanese authorities said.
According to Japanese broadcasting corporation NHK, a series of explosions occurred at an US military facility in the Japanese city of Sagamihara. Multiple explosions were heard at about 1 a.m. local time at a warehouse at the US army base in Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo. No injuries have been reported yet. Read more: sputniknews.com
According to Yonhap news agency, quoting North Korea’s main news agency Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the country’s military has been placed on high alert and has been told to prepare a “quasi-state of war”. The report comes after North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire yesterday. “War maniacs of the South Korean puppet military […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The plane belonging to Trigana Air Service lost contact with air traffic control when it was en route from Sentani Airport to Oksibil, both located on the island of New Guinea, National Search and Rescue (SAR) Agency wrote on its Twitter account. There are 54 people, including five children, aboard, the agancy […]
Debris believed to be part of an aircraft has washed ashore on an uninhabited island in the Maldives. The fragment, suspected to be from a wing, was found on Mendhoo island, within the Laamu Atoll. The finding comes after several pieces of suspected plane debris washed ashore on the resort island Vabbinfaru, within the Kaafu […]
On 12 August 2015, an explosion, which was believed to consist of two separate blasts occurred at a petrol storage station in the Chinese city of Tianjin, a city of about 11.5 million people, in the Port of Tianjin in the Binhai New Area. The cause of the explosion is currently unknown, but media reports […]
