On May 20, the fire that broke out on the container ship MV X-Press Pearl, carrying 25 tons of nitric acid, different chemicals and cosmetic products near the coast of Sri Lanka. Despite extinguishing the fire, the chemical waste found in the container ship caused environmental disaster. Sri Lanka Air force personnel wearing protective clothing […]
Pro-democracy activist Chow Hang Tung has been arrested by Hong Kong police early in the morning outside her Office. She charged with promoting unauthorised assembly on the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. The Tiananmen Square protests, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing in 1989. Armed troops fired at the demonstrators […]
Israeli settlers closed Gaza’s Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) border crossing which connects Israel and Egypt. They blocked the entry of food trucks during protests. An Israeli soldier’s family demanded the releasing of their son who was taken as hostage by Hamas. According to Israeli news, Hamas took 4 Israeli soldiers as hostage including one […]
A multi-rotor drone carrying biological samples took off from a hospital in south China’s megacity of Guangzhou to replace road transport for the testing delivery in Guangzhou KingMed. With its highest speed of 50 km per hour, the drone spent ten minutes completing the delivery, far less than the 30 minutes it takes with a […]
Chinese police officers jumped into fast-flowing water to save sheep which had fallen in a ditch, in the county of Wuqia in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The officers were swept away about one kilometer before successfully saving all three sheep. To avoid any such incident in the future, local police have set up […]
In the incident that took place in New York City, USA on Monday, a black man named Alexander Wright punched a 55-year-old Asian woman in Chinatown. The video recorded by the surveillance camera shows that the Asian woman was suddenly attacked by Wright, who was coming from the opposite direction, while she was walking on […]
Turkey-Albania Friendship Hospital that was built in 68 days by Turkey as a gift to Albanian citizens began patient admission. It was opened on 21 April with a ceremony. Fier Friendship Hospital began accepting patients after opening. At the beginning 110 employees in total, 56 of whom are Turkish will service at hospital. When the […]
Finland citizens, live in Alanya, Turkey, went to the polls to elect the city council members in their country. Residing Finnish in Ankara and Alanya will vote for the two-days election that holds in their country. 20 in Ankara, 100 in Alanya are expected to vote. Elections hold in April but this year’s election postponed […]
The rivers around Manaus city of Brazil, have reached record levels and caused severe flooding after heavy rain. The Rio Negro River that flows into the Amazon near Manaus recorded its highest water level since 1902 at 29.98 metres. The river rose to 29.97 metres in major flooding in 2012.
YouTuber and drone operator Joey Helms was filming an erupting Icelandic volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula, which is 40 km away from Reykjavík, Iceland. The video taken by Joey Helms via drone captured the exact moment that fell right into the volcano’s caldera. The volcano had started erupting on March 19, 2021.