A huge metal construction girder has fallen onto a busy road in Bangkok, killing at least one person and critically injuring several more. Rescue workers rushed to the scene to search for survivors from crushed cars and damaged buildings. The girder was
In August last year, a knife-wielding assailant stormed a kindergarten in the south-eastern Jiangxi province, killing three people and wounding six others.In April 2021, two children died while 16 others were injured during a mass stabbing in Beiliu City, in Guangxi Zhuang
Chris Hipkins said the weapons were “indiscriminate, they cause huge damage to innocent people, potentially, and they can have a long-lasting effect as well”. The White House had been made aware of New Zealand’s opposition to the use of cluster bombs in
More than 100 countries, including the UK, France and Germany, have signed an international treaty – the Convention on Cluster Munitions – that outlaws the use or stockpiling of these weapons due to their indiscriminate effect on civilian populations.
Depression, or any mental illness, has long carried stigma in Chinese society. The Chinese word for mental illness, ‘jingshen bing’ sounds similar to a derogatory term for a mad person, ‘shenjing bing’, and people who have mental health issues would always be
They clamber over rubble, take photos on their phones of the wreckage and compare experiences, pointing out which homes were raided, whose sons have been detained, and where the dead fell. One man walks up to me saying it reminds him of
“Israel is internationally recognised as the occupying power over our land and people,” he tweeted. “[It] should be condemned for its use of force to destroy the camp’s infrastructure, facilities, and homes, and to kill, arrest, and displace innocent people.”
As well as the hum of drones overhead, regular bursts of gunfire and the loud thuds of explosions came throughout the day from the densely populated refugee camp, which is home to some 18,000 people and is now declared a closed Israeli
On Sunday night, the mums in Aulney, a working-class area near Paris, took to the streets themselves, waving banners calling for an end to the violence. President Macron appealed to the “mamans et papas” (the mums and dads) of the rioters last
Nahel was shot after refusing to stop for a traffic check and died after emergency services attended the scene. A video, shared online in the hours following Nahel’s death, showed two police officers trying to stop the vehicle and one pointing his