Trapped South African Miners Rescued From Gold Mine
Around eleven illegal South African miners were rescued on Sunday, after they were trapped in an abandoned gold mine near east of Johannesburg suburb of Benoni. Several others who fear arrest remain underground, an emergency services spokesman said. The miners are accused of illegal mining and have been taken into police custody. No deaths or […]
‘Black Market’ For Stolen Smartphones Exposed
A BBC undercover investigation exposed a black market of shops and traders in London dealing in stolen smartphones. Eight Apple and Samsung phones loaded with personal data like photos, contacts, call history and messages were blocked or reported as stolen to the networks. The undercover researcher then offered the phones for sale with messages on the screens […]
Kuwait’s Opposition Calls for Multi-Party Democracy
Kuwait’s Opposition on Saturday called for wide ranging democratic reforms including a Western-style party system to limit the powers of the country’s ruling family. The move launched in a “national political reform program,” by the Opposition Coalition, proposes fundamental political, constitutional and legislative reforms to achieve a multi-party system and to prevent members of the […]
Nigeria Violence: 71 Killed In Abuja Bus Blasts
At least seventy people have been killed and several injured in a bomb blast on Monday at a crowded bus station, 8km southwest of central Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. Security experts suspect the explosion occurred inside a vehicle, Air Commodore Charles Otegbade, said the director of search and rescue operations. The passengers were about to board the […]
UN: Call for ‘Massive Shift’ In Energy
A report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the offspring of two UN bodies, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Program, calls for an increase of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power thereby putting an end to the drastic climate changes. The report was released on Sunday 13 […]
China Water Contamination Affects 2.4m after Oil Leak
The severe water contamination in Lanzhou, capital of north western Gansu province, China, has affected over 2.4 million people in the region forcing the citizens to buy bottled water. State media said the city’s environmental protection chief, Yan Zijiang, blamed it on a leak from Lanzhou Petrochemical Co., China’s biggest oil company, a subsidiary of […]
Honduras Has the World’s Highest Murder Rate, Says UN Report
Honduras tops the list of world nations with the highest murder rate, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s report released on Thursday. The report analyzes the intentional homicides of about 437,000 people around the world in that year. The Central American nation had a murder rate of 90.4 homicides per 100,000 people […]
Washington Post and Guardian Share Pulitzer Prize
The Guardian and Washington Post have been awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize on Monday In New York for public service journalism for their stories of US National Security Agency’s mass surveillance activities based on the documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The prizes were administered by by a nineteen member panel of the […]
President Obama to Meet With Dalai Lama at the White House
US President Barack Obama will be meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Friday at the White House. Amidst the already strained relations between the U.S and China, the meeting is likely to draw further opposition from Beijing. Lama, who is a frequent visitor in the U.S, is in the country for […]
Missing Flight: Australia Moots System That Found Titanic
Australia plans to employ a system that helped detect the Titanic twenty nine years ago to trace the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that disappeared on March 8 with 239 passengers on board. The robotic mini-submarine that had been on its underwater mission focusing on an area where four acoustic signals were detected has not […]
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