Tsunami advisories have been issued for several locations throughout the Pacific after the huge earthquake that shook central Chile on Thursday evening taking the lives of at least eight people. The quake was felt throughout much of South America. 15-foot waves struck portions of the coast of Chile, causing as many as a million people […]
A massive earthquake, the largest on the planet this year, struck near the central coast of Chile at 6:54 pm today. Three persons are confirmed dead in the powerful, 8.3 magnitude quake. One, a 26-year-old woman, died when a wall fell on her, another, a 20-year-old man, died when his truck fell into the sea […]
ISLAMABAD—Taliban insurgents have stormed a prison in central Afghanistan, allowing hundreds of inmates to escape. Afghan officials say the well-organized pre-dawn assault began with a suicide car bombing at the entrance that allowed other insurgents to get into the prison in the province of Ghazni. An Interior Ministry spokesman, Najib Danish, told VOA the facility […]
Islamist rebels have captured a major airbase from government forces in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, according to Syrian state television and a war monitoring group. The state TV report on Wednesday announced the military retreat from Abu Duhur military airport, where the Islamist extremists had imposed a nearly two-year-long siege. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory […]