Category: WORLD

At least 22 people have died and 187 are injured after a train derailed and overturned on a coastal railway in Taiwan. The train had been carrying more than 360 passengers on a popular weekend route from a suburb of Taipei in the north to Taitung, a city on Taiwan’s southeast coast. The crash on the popular east coast line injured another 187 people Sunday and left the Puyuma Express lying zig-zagged across the tracks in the island’s worst rail accident for a quarter century. Rescue services, including soldiers and firefighters, were…

Khashoggi, 59, came from a prominent Saudi family with Turkish origins.The prominent journalist had written columns critical of the Saudi government while living in self-imposed exile in the US. Saudi Arabia acknowledged early Saturday that Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in a fight, and said 18 Saudis were being held as suspects.Eighteen Saudi nationals were said to have been arrested. Khashoggi, a critic of the crown prince, went missing after entering the consulate to obtain documents for his upcoming marriage. Donald Trump said Saudi Arabia’s…

MOSCOW: A Russian official said a student attacked a vocational college Wednesday in Crimea, a rampage that killed 17 other students and left more than 40 people wounded, before killing himself. The preliminary examination of the bodies of the victims indicates that they died of gunshot wounds. Nobody was killed by the blast that rocked the college earlier on Wednesday, the Investigative Committee said. Russian officials at first reported a gas explosion, then said an explosive device ripped through the college canteen at lunchtime in a suspected terrorist attack. Olga…

HAITI: The death toll from a 5.9 earthquake that hit Haiti over the weekend rose to 17 people with 333 injured, authorities said Monday, as thousands of people slept outdoors fearing aftershocks would topple their cracked homes. After two days of searching for victims of the disaster, the country moved into a response phase Monday. The government faced two challenges: attending to the injured and managing fears. A magnitude 5.2 aftershock on Sunday afternoon sent people rushing into the street in Port-de-Paix, the coastal town that bore the brunt of…

Haiti is prone to earthquakes as the island sits adjacent to major fault lines along the so-called “Ring of Fire”. PORT-AU-PRINCE: A 5.9-magnitude earthquake that struck off the northwest coast of Haiti left at least 11 people dead and more than 130 injured, authorities in the Caribbean nation said on Sunday. The epicenter of the quake was located about 19 kilometers (12 miles) northwest of the city of Port-de-Paix, the US Geological Survey reported. In a post on Twitter, President Jovenel Moïse urged people to remain calm after the civil…