The 2011 Tohoku tsunami was Japan’s deadliest in more than 100 years. Despite an extraordinary level of preparedness by the Japanese, the tsunami caused more than 90 percent of the almost 20,000 fatalities last March.
A Major Turning Point in Asia’s War Against Poaching: Jail Time For Thailand’s “Cell Phone†Tiger Poachers Two poachers get up to five years in prison – most severe sentences for poaching ever given out in Thailand WCS helped apprehend poachers last summer after a cell phone with images of dead tiger is found WCS […]
The United Nations human rights office said today that images shown by a British news program of the alleged torture of patients in Syrian hospitals were “shocking†and similar to those received by UN-mandated investigators.
This week, on the five-year anniversary of his disappearance, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announces a reward of up to $1,000,000 for information leading directly to the safe location, recovery, and return of Robert A. Levinson.