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International relations The Hellenic Coast Guard rescues 218 migrants off the coast of Greece who sailed illegally from Turkey making the total number of people arriving more than 1,500 in a week. (AFP via Daily Star) Law and crime Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Dennis Hastert is indicted for allegedly trying to evade banking reporting requirements and lying to ...
Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, warns that violence can explode into armed conflict in Burundi following events of the current presidential election. (AP via ABC News America) 7th BRICS summit. The event is concluded.
Disasters and accidents April 2015 Nepal earthquake The death toll for the earthquake reaches 6,100 as the first food aid reaches Nepal. This includes 6000+ people in Nepal, 19 people on Mount Everest, 76 in India, 25 in China, and 4 in Bangladesh. (AP via Daily Mail) Thousands of people are fleeing Kathmandu due to uncertainty over food supply. (Xinhua) At least 15 are dead and dozens missing ...
International relations In response to joint exercises held by South Korea and the United States, North Korea fires two short-range missiles off its coast. (Reuters) Law and crime A man shoots to death a woman and a seven-year-old boy then himself in the Queensland town of Biddeston, west of Brisbane, Australia. (ABC News) Sports Durham Police arrest English and Sunderland footballer Adam ...
Disasters and accidents Aviastar Flight 7503 Indonesia's Aviastar airline loses contact with an aircraft between Masamba - Makassar carrying 10 people. (DailyMail) Hurricane Joaquin The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a 735-foot (224-meter) cargo ship named 'El Faro,' with 33 people on board, that went missing near Crooked Island in the Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin. Five Poles and 28 ...
Disasters and accidents More than 20 garment workers are killed after a bus that they were travelling to work in collides with a tourist bus in Cambodia's Svay Rieng Province. (Cambodia Daily) The death toll from landslides in the Colombian town of Salgar rises to 56 with scores missing. (Agencies via Al Jazeera) Germanwings Flight 9525 French prosecutors say the passengers onboard the ...
Arts and culture South African comedian Trevor Noah will succeed Jon Stewart as host of the television program The Daily Show on the Comedy Central network. (The New York Times) Disasters and accidents A 7.7 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Papua New Guinea prompts a tsunami warning for Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. (AP) A van crash on U.S. Route 27 in Florida near the town of ...
Politics and elections Turkish general election, November 2015 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) wins Sunday's snap election with more than 49 percent of the vote. AKP, projected to get 316 seats in the 550-seat parliament, regains single-party rule just five months after losing it. (Washington Post) (BBC) (Al Jazeera) Prime Minister Ahmet ...