A powerful earthquake has struck southern Japan, causing casualties and collapsed buildings. According to Japan’s Meteorological Agency, the quake hit at 9.26 pm and was centered seven miles east from the town of Mashiki in the Kumamoto prefecture. Initial reports placed the quake at a magnitude 6.4, but this was later downgraded to […]
YANGON, Myanmar — A strong earthquake struck Myanmar on Wednesday night and was felt in parts of eastern India and Bangladesh, causing residents to rush out of their homes in panic. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The magnitude-6.9 quake struck at a depth of 135 kilometers (84 miles), 396 kilometers […]
A PLANE crash which has left twelve people dead in Papua New Guinea is being investigated by DFAT to see if any Australians may have been on board. The crash happened about 3pm this afternoon near an airport in Kiunga. There are reports the pilot may have been Australian. A DFAT spokesman said they were […]
About 50 flights from Brussels Airport, which reopened this month after a deadly bomb attack, were canceled on Wednesday as a strike among air traffic controllers entered a second day. Brussels Airport, one of Europe’s busiest, reopened on April 3 with limited capacity, restricted by tight security and temporary structures erected after bombs destroyed the departure […]
All flights in and out of Brussels Airport have been temporarily suspended after air-traffic controllers walked off the job in a pension dispute just days after the hub resumed serving flights after the fatal terrorist attacks last month. Flights at other airports in Belgium have also been impacted by the labor dispute, said a spokesman […]