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A powerful blast has struck a chemical storage in eastern China’s Jingjiang province, causing a massive ongoing blaze. A plume of black smoke is rising from the storage reservoir engulfed in flames...
Around 1,200 people have been rescued since the flooding began late on Sunday evening; while a total of seven people are reported to have died. An estimated 17.6 inches (44.7cm) of rain fell on Hou...
Brazil is in acute political crisis – the president has already been impeached by the country’s lower house of parliament, and now the Senate will decide her fate. We are told it is all about corru...
A Swedish Green Party politician, who sparked controversy by refusing to shake hands with a female reporter because it violates his Muslim faith, has announced he's leaving politics.
Russian military sappers and their trained sniffer dogs clearing the city of Palmyra in Syria. The dogs, which can detect mines, can work for 25 minutes before they need water and rest.
Prominent philosopher Slavoi Zizek recently said that Europe needs to stop trying to solve the problems of the Middle East by taking in millions of refugees. He also said that migrants shouldn't be...
‘This cannot become a permanent state of affairs!’ That's the demand from the president of Austria after revealing there were even more asylum applications than births in the country last year.
Chinese tech-company FutureWise showcased their NK-01 prototype mecha-exosuit in Beijing, Wednesday, reportedly one of the only three teams in the world to be producing exoskeleton that can be pilo...
Angela Merkel's decision to appease Turkey, by agreeing to prosecute a German comedian for writing an insulting poem against President Erdogan has dealt a big blow to her approval ratings at home. ...
The University of Political Science in Paris has held a controversial 'Hijab Day'. Organizers say the event was designed to counter the stigmatization of women who wear the veil.
It may not be a Niagara or Victoria falls, but it is unique in the fact of its abruptness in narrowing. The some 300-meter wide river narrows to just 50 meters. In some parts of the water fall the ...
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