The death toll from Mexico’s 8.1 magnitude earthquake rose to 96 on Monday as more victims were confirmed in the hard-hit southern states of Oaxaca and Chiapas and residents worked to repair shattered homes and small businesses. The Foreign Relations Department said 95 people had died nationwide in Thursday’s quake. Then Chiapas state civil defense…
The United Nations has imposed a fresh round of sanctions on North Korea after its sixth and largest nuclear test. The measures restrict oil imports and ban textile exports. The latter is aimed at starving the North of income for its weapons programmes. The US had originally proposed harsher sanctions including a total ban on…
Denmark’s minister of immigration and integration, Inger Stojberg (shown), said in a statement on September 9 that the Scandinavian country won’t allow any refugees into the country this year under a UN quota system. “Hence, I would like to see a more flexible quota regime, so that we are prepared, but not obliged, to take…
Wind gusts close to hurricane force are battering islands in Florida’s south as Hurricane Irma is due to hit the mainland in the coming hours. Water levels are already rising on the coast of the US state where a huge storm surge is expected. Some 6.3 million people had been told to evacuate, but the…
London, Sep 9 Thousands of people marched through central London today calling on the government to “rethink and reject Brexit”. A stream of protesters poured through Trafalgar Square and stopped to boo outside Prime Minister Theresa May’s Downing Street office before congregating at a rally outside parliament. The self-styled People’s March for Europe comes ahead…
Turkey has told its citizens visiting or living in Germany to “be careful” and keep their composure against “racist and xenophobic slurs” ahead of the country’s upcoming federal elections. “It is advised for our citizens in Germany or planning to visit this country to be even-tempered, keep themselves out of political discussions and absent themselves…
“It smells of freshness, and of our deep respect for our leader,” the woman declared, smiling to the Russian TV camera. A North Korean, she’d just sniffed a big red flower named after the country’s former leader Kim Jong-il. Part of a series of glowing reports on everyday life in the secretive state, covering topics…
President Enrique Peña Nieto says government will help with reconstruction after most powerful quake in a century The Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto, has declared three days of national mourning after the strongest earthquake to hit the country in a century left at least 65 people dead and destroyed thousands of buildings. A major rescue…
NORTH Korea has threatened the USA with a “miserable end” amid fears Kim Jong-un’s rogue state is plotting a missile launch TODAY. North Korea, in a ferocious article in one of North Korea’s propaganda channels, have accused America of attempting to force a final “shown” with Kim Jong-un. The article, published in a Pyongyang-based newspaper,…