Taiwan's capital was shaken by a "strong" earthquake early Monday evening, AFP staff reported, with the Central Weather Administration saying it was a magnitude-5.5 tremor originating in eastern Hualien.
This was a horrific act of violence indiscriminately targeted at the innocent people going about an ordinary Saturday, doing their shopping."
Taiwan was shaken by dozens of earthquakes overnight and into Tuesday that left buildings swaying, with the government saying they were aftershocks from a huge deadly quake that hit the island more than two weeks ago.The strongest, which the US Geological Survey measured at magnitude 6.1, hit around 2:30 am (1830 GMT) followed minutes later by a 6.0 tremor.Taipei's Central Weather Administration put them at 6.0 and 6.3, respectively.Authorities said there were no casualties reported so far, but...
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 hit southern Japan late on Wednesday, said the Japan Meteorological Agency, without issuing a tsunami warning. The epicenter was the Bungo Channel, a strait separating the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku, the agency said. Ehime and Kochi prefectures were hit by
At least 155 people have died in Tanzania as torrential rains linked to El Nino caused flooding and landslides, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said
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Palestinian officials have announced that during a raid by Israeli forces on the occupied West Bank coast, 14 Palestinians have been killed. According to Palestinian health officials, these individuals, including an ambulance driver who was heading to the scene of another attack on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, were killed near the village of […]
The director of an Ecuadorian prison known as “El Rodeo” was killed Sunday in an attack that came as millions of people in the country headed to the polls for a referendum focused largely on President Daniel Noboa’s war on crime. The official was identified in a news release by Ecuador’s national prisons agency SNAI as Cosme Damián Parrales Merchán, the director of the Manabi region prison, but no more details around his death were shared. Ecuador Prosecutor’s Office reported that another person...
By Ana María Cañizares and Marlon Sorto, CNN (CNN) — The director of an Ecuadorian prison known as “El Rodeo” was killed Sunday in an attack that came as millions of people in the country headed to the polls for a referendum focused largely on President Daniel Noboa’s war on crime. The official was identified
By Ana María Cañizares and Marlon Sorto, CNN (CNN) — The director of an Ecuadorian prison known as “El Rodeo” was killed Sunday in an attack that came as millions of people in the country headed to the polls for a referendum focused largely on President Daniel Noboa’s war on crime. The official was identified
By Ana María Cañizares and Marlon Sorto, CNN (CNN) — The director of an Ecuadorian prison known as “El Rodeo” was killed Sunday in an attack that came as millions of people in the country headed to the polls for a referendum focused largely on President Daniel Noboa’s war on crime. The official was identified
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