Posts by Amelia Frost
Deadly Earthquake Forces Thai Patients Into Sports Hall
[ad_1] Beneath basketball hoops and beside football goals, hospital beds line a sports hall — patients evacuated from a hospital in the Thai capital for fear of damage by a devastating earthquake. The shallow 7.7-magnitude quake struck central Myanmar on Friday afternoon, followed minutes later by a 6.7-magnitude aftershock — with powerful tremors shaking Bangkok,…
Read More‘Everyone Was Screaming’: Quake Shocks Thailand Tourists
[ad_1] French tourist Augustin Gus was shopping for a t-shirt in one of Bangkok’s many malls when a massive quake began shaking the building in the Thai capital. “Just when I left the elevator, the earth starts moving. I thought it was me… it was not me,” the 23-year-old told AFP. “Everyone was screaming and…
Read MoreRallies Grow In South Korea As Court Weighs President’s Fate
[ad_1] Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans rallied for and against impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Saturday as protests grow while the country’s Constitutional Court weighs whether to dismiss him. Yoon was impeached by lawmakers over his disastrous December 3 declaration of martial law, and the court last month held weeks of tense impeachment…
Read MoreScientists Explain Why Myanmar Quake Was So Deadly
[ad_1] Experts say that the devastating earthquake in Myanmar on Friday was likely the strongest to hit the country in decades, with disaster modelling suggesting thousands could be dead. Automatic assessments from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the shallow 7.7-magnitude quake northwest of the central Myanmar city of Sagaing triggered a red alert…
Read MoreTurkey Opposition Calls Mass Rally In Istanbul
[ad_1] Protesters were to join a mass rally in Istanbul Saturday at the call of Turkey’s main opposition CHP over the jailing of the city’s mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a top figure in the party whose arrest has sparked 10 days of the country’s biggest street demonstrations in a decade. Imamoglu’s detention on March 19 has…
Read MoreUK Gallery To Return Nazi-looted Painting To Heirs Of Jewish Collector
[ad_1] The Tate Britain gallery is set to reunite the great-grandchildren of a Belgian Jewish art collector with a painting looted from his home by the Nazis, officials said on Saturday. “Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy” was stolen from the home of Samuel Hartveld after he fled Antwerp with his wife in May…
Read MoreUK Dreams Of US Trade Deal Before Trump Tariffs
[ad_1] Britain’s government is hoping to reach a last-minute post-Brexit trade agreement with Washington to avoid — or at least mitigate — more tariffs set to be announced on Wednesday by US President Donald Trump. Britain has set out to strike a trade deal with the United States since departing the European Union at the…
Read More‘Blink Of An Eye’: Survivor Tells Of Bangkok Skyscraper Collapse Horror
[ad_1] A construction worker told Saturday how he cheated death when a Bangkok skyscraper collapsed “in the blink of an eye” after a massive earthquake hit Myanmar and Thailand. Tearful family members gathered at the remains of the 30-storey building, which crumbled to rubble in just seconds on Friday, clinging to shreds of hope that…
Read MorePartial Solar Eclipse To Cross Swathe Of Northern Hemisphere
[ad_1] Skygazers across a broad swathe of the Northern Hemisphere will have a chance to see the Moon take a bite out of the Sun on Saturday when a partial solar eclipse sweeps from eastern Canada to Siberia. The partial eclipse, which is the first of the year and the 17th this century, will last…
Read MoreTunisian Startup Turns Olive Waste Into Clean Energy
[ad_1] In a northern Tunisian olive grove, Yassine Khelifi’s small workshop hums as a large machine turns olive waste into a valuable energy source in a country heavily reliant on imported fuel. Holding a handful of compacted olive residue — a thick paste left over from oil extraction — Khelifi said: “This is what we…
Read MoreSkadden Arps. Makes Deal to Avoid Punitive Executive Order, Trump Says
[ad_1] The Skadden Arps deal suggests negotiating may be getting more costly. Paul Weiss said it would provide $40 million in pro bono work, while the Skadden Arps agreement more than doubled that amount. The deals have also been met with scathing criticism by those in the legal community who see them as unnecessary capitulation…
Read MoreGuinea Ex-dictator Sentenced For 2009 Massacre Pardoned: Junta
[ad_1] Guinea’s ex-dictator Moussa Dadis Camara, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison over a 2009 massacre, was pardoned Friday for “health reasons” by the West African country’s junta head, according to a decree read out on national television. “Upon the proposal of the Minister of Justice, a presidential pardon is granted to Mr.…
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