Police investigator Dannie Rise talks to the media in Copenhagen, Denmark, Monday, July 4, 2022. (SERGEI GRITS / AP PHOTO) COPENHAGEN – The man accused of killing three people in a shooting in a Danish shopping mall was ordered on Monday to be held in a closed psychiatric ward, and authorities said they did not […]
A police officer holds up police tape at the scene of a mass shooting at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade in downtown Highland Park, a Chicago suburb, on July 4, 2022. (NAM Y. HUH / AP PHOTO) HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. – Police announced they had captured a suspect in a shooting on Monday […]
ISLAMABAD (DAWN/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – The country’s escalating power crisis risks exacerbating the law-and-order situation as people take to the streets in the hardest-hit areas. Moreover, the energy crunch has hit telecom companies hard, with a spill-over effect likely to hamper communications and deliver a blow to businesses dependent on seamless internet connectivity, leading cellular […]
People displaced by fighting between Congolese forces and M23 rebels gather north of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 27, 2022. (MOSES SAWASAWA / AP) KINSHASA – Life in Kinshasa was going well for Zawadi, a mother of two from Rwanda, until faraway fighting stoked Congolese anger against her country and videos of men with […]
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – A few weeks ago, we all woke up to a global milieu that we thought belonged to history. Billions of people have already struggled through the last two years; acute hunger skyrocketed and the threat of famine once again returned. Now, with war impacting a major global breadbasket […]
Police and other first responders work at the scene where officials say dozens of people have been found dead and multiple others were taken to hospitals with heat-related illnesses after a tractor-trailer containing suspected migrants was found on June 27, 2022, in San Antonio. (ERIC GAY / AP PHOTO) SAN ANTONIO – The bodies of […]
ASSAM, INDIA (BLOOMBERG) – India’s flood-hit areas are forecast to receive heavy rain this week, with 532 people losing their lives so far across the nation during the monsoon season and hundreds of thousands staying in temporary relief camps. The north-eastern state of Assam has been among the worst-hit regions, with rain affecting 2.5 million people, destroying […]
A woman lays flowers at the scene of a shooting in central Oslo, Norway on June 25, 2022. (SERGEI GRITS / AP) OSLO – Terrified revelers at a gay bar in Oslo hid in a basement and desperately called loved ones as a gunman went on the rampage, killing two people and injuring 21 on […]
AKHTAR JAN, AFGHANISTAN (AFP) – Village life has always been tough for Afghans in the rugged mountains of the east, but compared to what they are enduring today it was paradise. A 5.9-magnitude earthquake rumbled through the area last Wednesday, killing more than 1,000 people, injuring three times that many, and leaving tens of thousands […]
ISLAMABAD (DAWN/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – For the hapless people of Afghanistan, the list of miseries just doesn’t seem to end. The latest catastrophe to hit the country has been the 6.1 magnitude earthquake that struck early on Wednesday (June 22) morning. The worst hit has been the eastern province of Paktika, which borders Pakistan. The […]
BERMAL, AFGHANISTAN (AFP) – Desperate rescuers battled against the clock and heavy rain on Thursday (June 23) to reach cut-off areas in eastern Afghanistan after a powerful earthquake killed at least 1,000 people and left thousands more homeless. Wednesday’s 5.9-magnitude quake struck hardest in the rugged east, downing mobile phone towers and power lines while […]
Indigenous people march in downtown Quito, on June 22, 2022, on the tenth consecutive day of indigenous-led protests against the Ecuadorean government. (VERONICA LOMBEIDA / AFP) QUITO – Thousands of indigenous protesters held a peaceful march through Ecuador's capital, Quito, on Wednesday to demand that President Guillermo Lasso address price rises that have ignited 10 […]
DHAKA/GUWAHATI (REUTERS) – The authorities in Bangladesh are bracing themselves for the spread of water-borne diseases and racing to get drinking water to people stranded in their homes by flooding across a quarter of the country, an official said on Thursday (June 23). Nearly 2,000 rescue teams were trying to reach flood victims in 17 […]
YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA (AFP) – The global food crisis sparked by the war in Ukraine will kill millions by leaving the hungriest more vulnerable to infectious diseases, potentially triggering the world’s next health catastrophe, the head of a major aid organisation has warned. A Russian naval blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports has stopped grain shipments […]
SHARAN, AFGHANISTAN (AFP, REUTERS) – Aid began arriving on Thursday (June 23) in a remote part of Afghanistan where an earthquake killed 1,000 people but poor communications and a lack of proper roads are hampering relief efforts in a country already grappling with a humanitarian crisis. The 5.9-magnitude quake struck early on Wednesday about 160km south-east of […]