At least 13 people have been killed in a traffic accident near the Russian city of Tver, 180 kilometers northwest of Moscow. The Emergency Ministry and local traffic police said that passengers of a Ford minibus were killed after the vehicle collided with a LiAZ bus on a highway on October 5. At least 17 […]
The woman was bathing in the Ganges River as part of a religious fast observed by Hindus. The victim was not only assaulted but was also filmed and the video went viral on social media. New Delhi (Sputnik) — In a reprehensible act of violence against women in India, a 45-year-old woman who was bathing […]
The wife of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak was charged with 17 offences on Thursday, including money laundering, as anti-graft agents investigate billions of dollars missing from state coffers. The charges against Rosmah Mansor were read out by prosecutors at a Kuala Lumpur court, after she spent a night in detention following her arrest […]
Flattened homes, collapsed bridges and crumbled buildings. There was devastation as far as the eye could see in Wani II village in Donggala regency, near the epicentre of Friday’s magnitude 7.4 earthquake. A ship sat next to a house after being washed ashore by the force of the subsequent tsunami. Villagers, desperate for help, could […]
One of China’s most renowned actors Fan Bingbing, who featured in a number of Hollywood superhero blockbusters, including the X-Men and Iron Man film franchises, disappeared from the public eye in July. Chinese authorities have hit the 37-year-old actor, Fan Bingbing, with 883 million yuan ($129 million) in taxes, fines and penalties for tax evasion, […]
TOKYO (Sputnik) – The Japanese government resigned on Tuesday in order to enable Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to form a new cabinet of ministers, local media reported. In a couple of hours, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announced the composition of new government. According to the NHK broadcaster, only six of the country’s 18 […]
The final death toll in the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Sulawesi island could be in the “thousands,” Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla said Sunday, as a national disaster agency spokesman said 832 bodies had been recovered. Rescue workers sifted through the ruins of buildings in Central Sulawesi after a powerful quake pummeled neighborhoods in the […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Japanese weather officials warned that fierce winds and torrential rain could trigger landslides and floods after a powerful typhoon hurtled toward Japan’s mainland on Sunday, injuring dozens on southern islands. Typhoon Trami has already sparked travel disruption in the world’s third-biggest economy, with bullet train services in the west of Japan suspended, […]
