(SomaliNet) At least eight people died and 38 remain missing after torrential rains stranded 20,000 people in southwest China, the site of May’s devastating earthquake that killed at least 80,000.
According to Xinhua news agency, heavy rains have caused flash floods and landslides in the mount
(SomaliNet) Yonhap news agency reported that all 17 crew members from a South Korean freighter carrying glass material are missing after their vessel capsized in rough waters off the coast of Macau on Wednesday.
Yonhap quoted a South Korean coast guard official as saying a Chinese rescue ship fou
(SomaliNet) The Syrian state news agency reported on Monday that an Islamist suicide bomber was responsible for a car bomb on Saturday that killed 17 people in Syria.
The vehicle had entered Syria from a neighboring Arab country on Sept 26, the SANA news agency said. Hoverer, it did not say which
(SomaliNet) The Foreign Ministry said on Friday that Japan will send two army officers to Sudan, probably this month, to take part in a United Nations operation monitoring a peace agreement that ended Africa's longest-running civil war.
Experts say Japan is trying to take a more active role in in
(SomaliNet) After raising its security level in the wake of last month's suicide attack on the Marriott Hotel in the capital, the United Nations said on Thursday it has ordered children of its international staff to leave Pakistan.
Police said the alert came as a suicide bomber killed himself an
(SomaliNet) The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said the 14 Filipino crewmembers of the Malaysian ships hijacked by Somali pirates and the remains of a Filipino seaman will arrive tomorrow in Manila.
According to DFA, the crewmembers of MT Bunga Melati 2 and M/T Bunga Melati 5, as well as the
(SomaliNet) French police said on Friday that a parachutist was killed when he struck a pylon at the soccer stadium he was trying to land in, and a teenage spectator died after being flung against a barrier by the torn parachute.
The parachutist was blown off course while trying to land in the Sa
(SomaliNet) In a tragic incident, a 45-year-old man in the US city of Los Angeles unleashed a bloodbath late on Saturday evening.
The man shot dead his 39-year-old wife, his 70-year-old mother in law and his three sons, aged 19, 12 and seevn. He then turned the gun on himself.
The man, a for
(SomaliNet) Crisis talks between the Bolivian president Evo Morales and the governors of four rebel provinces have failed to resolve a conflict between the two sides.
Experts say the gas-rich provinces want more autonomy and oppose plans by President Morales to let the poor indigenous population
(SomaliNet) At least 70 people have been killed and over 100 others injured in an earthquake in Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia.
Media reports say those injured have been taken to hospital by helicopter. At least 120 buildings and a whole village have been destroyed in the earthquake registering 6.3
