Residents determined to fight after Israeli court rules in favour of demolishing the occupied West Bank village they’ve called home for decades.
Defiant residents rush to prepare as Florence barrels towards Carolina coast
With Florence looming in the Atlantic, the city’s residents are defiant, stubborn, and asking for divine intervention to get through yet another Carolina hurricane
After an hour-long wait outside on a balmy end-of-summer morning, Christian Endreson, 68, picked up the three pieces of plywood he needed to board up his daughter’s home and got in line to pay.
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Syria and Russia resume Idlib air strikes: residents, rescuers
Russian and Syrian jets resumed intensive strikes in Idlib and Hama on Sunday, residents and rescuers said, as Damascus stepped up its assault on the rebels’ last major stronghold after a Russian-Iranian-Turkish summit failed to agree a ceasefire.
Idlib residents anxiously await the inevitable attack by Syrian forces
An earthquake has paralyzed Hokkaido, Japan’s northern island, killing eight residents. Power is cut to 3 million households. Trains and mobile phone networks are idle. The jolt follows a typhoon over western Japan.
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Japan earthquake: landslide traps residents in homes
Warning of aftershocks as 10 injured in 6.6 earthquake on northern island of Hokkaido
A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.6 left residents trapped inside their homes as a landslide blocked roads, engulfed buildings and led to widespread power cuts on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido in the early hours of Thursday.
A landslide along a long ridge in the rural town of Atsumi could be seen in aerial footage from the public broadcaster NHK. About 10 people had been taken to hospital with injuries, one of them serious, it said. Japanese media said two people had died and 32 were missing, but there were no official reports of fatalities.
Facebook blocked in Tripoli and other cities as fighting rages: residents
Facebook has been blocked in the Libyan capital of Tripoli and other cities, residents said on Monday as fighting between rival groups raged.
Residents of Jeju island offer helping hand to the Yemenis
With anger and hatred, there is also sympathy and support for the Yemeni asylum seekers on Korea’s Jeju island.
‘The sky was falling’: Perth residents shocked by BOOM of ‘bloody huge’ meteor (VIDEO)
A “bloody huge” meteor that sounded like a “plane crashing” and made dogs go “psycho” dazzled onlookers as it streaked across the Perth night sky on Tuesday. Scientists say it most likely hit Earth.
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