A total of 268 fishermen who were trapped by Typhoon Wutip in the South China Sea have arrived in Sanya, Hainan Province Thursday morning after 15 hours sail in navy vessels, local authorities said.
At least six militants were killed and four cops injured in a targeted operation jointly launched by police and paramilitary troops in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Wednesday.
To Abdul Qadir, 53, there is nothing to live for after he pulled out the bodies of his family members from the rubbles of their one-storey brick house that collapsed in a 7.7-magnitude earthquake that hit Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province earlier this week.
Frank Githigia was bubbling with optimism when he woke up at dawn on Sept. 21 to meet clients at a posh coffee shop inside Westgate Shopping Mall located in an up market district in Nairobi.
Three poachers were sentenced Wednesday by a Zimbabwean court up to 16 years in prison for killing 87 elephants using toxic cyanide in one of Africa's prime elephant sanctuaries, state media reported.
The death toll of a powerful earthquake that hit Pakistan's southwest province of Balochistan on Tuesday afternoon has risen to 348 as 20 more bodies were recovered by rescue teams in the quake-hit areas, local media quoted an official as saying on Thursday.
Kenyan security forces continue its operation on Tuesday inside the mall where 62 people were killed by gunmen since Saturday, after more gunmen were killed as the siege of the mall enters the fourth day.
At least 15 people were killed and 35 others wounded in a bomb attack in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Sunday, police said.
At least 39 people were killed and 117 others wounded in separate violent attacks across Iraq on Tuesday, including a wave of bombing attacks in the capital city of Baghdad, police and interior ministry sources said.
The death toll in the epic flooding in the U.S. state of Colorado climbed to seven on Monday, as the biggest rescue operation in the country since the 2005 Hurricane Katrina continued.
Chemical weapons were used at Ghouta, Syria, on Aug. 21 "on a relatively large scale resulting in numerous casualties, particularly among civilians and including many children," a UN report said Monday.
Over 2,000 prisoners were released in Sri Lanka on Thursday to mark World Prisoner's Day, an official said here, assuring that the offenders were incarcerated for minor offenses.
Supervision loopholes are behind Tuesday's warehouse explosion in Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong Province, which claimed eight lives and injured 36, local police said.
At least four people were killed and 14 others injured after an explosion ripped through a building in south China's Guangzhou City around noon Tuesday, local police said.
At least four people including two suicide bombers were killed and seven others injured on Monday when some militants stormed a police headquarters in Pakistan's northwestern district of Kohat, local media reported.
The Egyptian army, in a major operation against Islamic militants in North Sinai on Saturday, killed at least nine of them, and it also foiled a bomb attack on the railroad between two Canal governorates.
A U.S. Senate panel Saturday released 13 videos showing the victims of the alleged chemical attack near Damascus on Aug. 21, although there is no independent verification of the videos' authenticity.
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