North Korea ultimately fires three short-range missiles towards Japan
Posted by: prabirghose
Pyŏngyang :: North Korea | updated 2013-05-18 08:19:02 -0700 | disasters-news
Fed up of listening to criticism that North Korea is a case of hesitation and indecision, it has ultimately had the courage to launch three of its missiles as reported by South Korean news agency Yonhap. It is immaterial that...
US General Dempsey: Russian missile shipment to Syria may embolden Assad
Posted by: saleh1966
White Center :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 11:05:24 -0700 | disasters-news
While International meetings are rushing up in order to find a political solution for the Syrian civil war, which has already killed more than 80,000 Syrians and the U.N. said it had driven 1.5 million abroad, Russia accelerates it's support...
Bad day for NYC commuters: Trains collide, plane 'belly flops' a landing
Posted by: Herbert Dyer, Jr.
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 11:23:31 -0700 | disasters-news
A New York City commuter train traveling from New York to suburban Connecticut Friday derailed and collided with a train headed in the opposite direction, as reported by all New York City media outlets and the Los Angeles Times. Railroad...
Many injured in devastating train collision in Conn., FBI probe underway
Posted by: VeronicaS
Fairfield :: CT :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 11:04:25 -0700 | disasters-news
As much as 70 people were reportedly sent to the hospital after two commuter trains collided Friday evening in Connecticut. CNN is reporting that as of Saturday morning, eight of those injured remain hospitalized, with three in critical condition. The...
Massive asteroid 1998 QE2 set to fly past Earth
Posted by: magdochka
Kiev :: Ukraine | updated 2013-05-18 01:27:01 -0700 | disasters-news
AN asteroid nine times larger than the QE2 is due to sail past the Earth on June 1. Luckily, the giant space rock will get no nearer than 5.8 million kilometers, or 15 times the distance between the soil and...
Dozens hurt as New York rush-hour trains collide in Bridgeport, Connecticut
Posted by: magdochka
Bridgeport :: CT :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 09:43:45 -0700 | disasters-news
A RUSH-hour collision between two commuter trains in a suburb north of New York City resulted in dozens of people being injured, railway officials say. "There are round 50 people injured. Four are serious to critically injured,'' a railway official...
Mass. lawmaker: Recoup benefits from terrorists
Source: The Boston Globe
Gloucester :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 09:56:59 -0700 | disasters-news
A Republican lawmaker is pushing for a law allowing Massachusetts to recoup public benefits given to anyone later convicted of using of a weapon of mass destruction. Gloucester state Sen. Bruce Tarr is offering the proposal as an amendment to...
Russia's missiles will embolden Syria says US
Posted by: magdochka
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-18 11:05:25 -0700 | disasters-news
RUSSIA'S shipment of anti-ship missiles to Syria will "embolden" the regime and fuel the country's civil war, the US military's top officer says. General Martin Dempsey's remarks on Friday were the first official confirmation from the US government that Moscow...
23 South African youths die in initiations that include circumcisions, survival tests
Posted by: magdochka
Pretoria :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-18 09:39:53 -0700 | disasters-news
TWENTY-THREE youths have died in the past nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests, South African police say. Policeman have opened 22 murder situations in the killings in the northeastern province of Mpumalanga, according to Representative...
$900,000 per detainee
Source: CNN
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 04:28:10 -0700 | disasters-news
They're protesting their ongoing imprisonment by going on hunger strikes for what is now 100 days. Not only has Guantanamo Bay become a lightning rod for America's critics -- it's no prize for America's taxpayers, either. Running the prison camp...
Connecticut commuter train derails, May 2013
Posted by: neelamnaz
Bridgeport :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 11:04:25 -0700 | disasters-news
NEWS HAPPEN IN BRIDGEPORT WRITTEN BY: NEELAM NAZ DATE: MAY 18,2013 A Metro-North commuter train derailed Friday and hit a train heading in the opposite direction in Connecticut, near the Fairfield-Bridgeport border on May 17, 2013. A train heading from...
(Raw Photos & Video) Connecticut Train Collision: 5 Critical Among 60 Injured
Posted by: Pijush Mitra
Fairfield :: CT :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 11:04:25 -0700 | disasters-news
An east-bound train headed to New Heaven derailed and collided with a west-bound train which was running to New York's Grand Central Station on Friday. 60 people were injured in the accident that took place at 6:10 p.m. They were...
North Korea fires three short-range missiles
Posted by: StephenManual
Pyŏngyang :: North Korea | updated 2013-05-18 08:12:41 -0700 | disasters-news
North Korea remains a troubled country on the Korean peninsula and a potential threat to security and stability of the whole region. The country has fired three short-range missiles from its east coast; however, purpose of the launching of missiles...
MOSCOW: US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s chief identity discloses after arrest.
Posted by: atifji75
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-05-18 08:31:55 -0700 | disasters-news
MOSCOW: US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s chief identity discloses after arrest. A breaking news is here that Russia has disclosed the identity of US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s chief who was arrested on May 14, in Moscow. US spy Ryan...
Overseas Filipino Workers in Taiwan were asked to stay at home while tension is still high
Posted by: Mary Grace Keiner
Taipei :: Taiwan | updated 2013-05-18 10:52:22 -0700 | disasters-news
There are thousands of Overseas Filipino Workers in Taiwan, mostly they are working in the manufacturing industry, while others are domestic helpers. Philippine officials warned Filipinos to stay at home for their own safety, due to on going rally of...
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