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August 30, 2017 6:45 PM
Atomic bomb survivor and prominent peace activist Sumiteru Taniguchi died of cancer today. He was 88 years old. Taniguchi survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki. <br/><br/>He was 16 at the time, and was about 1.8 kilometers away from ground zero when the bomb hit. He suffered sever...
August 30, 2017 6:42 PM
Fierce fighting between Syrian government forces and the Islamic State group has killed 64 combatants in Raqa province over a 24-hour period. The clashes come with the army pressing an advance through Raqa, in northern Syria, towards neighbouring Deir Ezzor, the only remaining province of the war-ra...
August 30, 2017 6:34 PM
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has made it clear that the Unity government in the country would continue until 2020. <br/><br/>Speaking to a group of journalists in Colombo today, the President sought to dispel rumors of break between the two main parties saying no single part...
August 30, 2017 6:25 PM
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the island of Guam. The US Geological Survey says, the earthquake hit today at 8 am (local time) in Guam. The epicentre was 83.4 kilometres southeast of Inarajan Village, a community of about 2,300 people. <br/><br/>The earthquake had a depth of 10 k...
August 30, 2017 6:25 PM
Jordan and Iraq today reopened their only border crossing, saying security had been restored three years after the Islamic State group seized control of frontier areas. In a joint statement, the two countries' governments said the crossing, called Turaibil in Iraq and Al-Karameh in Jordan, was ...
August 30, 2017 6:24 PM
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called today for an independent enquiry to probe the fate of thousands of people who have disappeared in Syria's war and to identify mass graves. <br/><br/>The Syrian war began in March 2011 when waves of peaceful demonstrations were repressed by the securit...
August 30, 2017 1:27 PM
An Indian student has died after he nearly drowned in a swollen lake in the US state of Texas where Hurricane Harvey has wreaked havoc. <br/><br/>Nikhil Bhatia, a student at the Texas A&M University, was rescued from the Lake Bryan, where he along with another Indian girl Shalini Sin...
August 30, 2017 1:26 PM
In China, a landslide in the northwestern Qinghai province today, buried at least nine persons.<br/><br/> State-run Xinhua news agency said, rescuers have pulled out three persons, with the condition of one being critical. It said, rescue operation for six others is continuing.<br/>...
August 30, 2017 1:26 PM
The US city of Houston has declared a night-time curfew as it battles the impact of Hurricane Harvey. <br/><br/>The storm has dumped record rainfall, leaving large parts of the city underwater, homes destroyed and over 20 people reported dead. Houston mayor Sylvester Turner said, the cur...
August 30, 2017 12:48 PM
Millions of Muslims from across the world are converging at tent city of Mina, in Saudi Arabia, as five-day Hajj pilgrimage began today. <br/><br/>They will spend the night there and move towards plains of Arafat at dawn tomorrow for the day's main ritual of Haj-reciting prayers. Th...
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