Earthquake of magnitude 5.1 - 113km NW of Sorong, Indonesia
U.S. envoy calls on North Korea to halt hostility, return to talks
3 month agoIndian Prime Minister @narendramodi has arrived at the control center at the Satellite Control Centre (SCC) in Bangalore, India
3 month ago[email protected] to make attempt to make India the fourth country to land on the moon:
3 month agoPrince Edward station just NOW.
[email protected]: "China is eating the Tariffs." Billions pouring into USA. Targeted Patriot Farmers getting massive Dollars from the incoming Tariffs. Good Jobs Numbers, No Inflation(Fed). China having worst year in decades. Talks happening, good for all
Afghan MoD claimed re-capturing Warduj district in Badakhshan from Taliban following heavy fighting but Taliban deny MoD claim. Exact situation on the ground unclear.
3 month agoA closer view of the first Chinese LHD Type 075
Senate Democrats send letter to @POTUS urging him to intensify diplomat efforts towards DPRK denuclearization and recognize that North Korea's series of ballistic missile tests clearly violate UNSC resolutions
3 month agoDemonstrators set barricade on fire at Grand Plaza on Nathan road. Firefighters on the scene
3 month agoAngry bystanders in Mong Kok chant slogans to mock police officers who have blocked their ways.
3 month agoRiot police advance along Argyle Street and Nathan Road at 10:15pm on Friday, as protesters set makeshift barricades alight.
3 month agoPolice are moving back. Chants of murderers and triads from the crowd in the back as they retreat back into the vans
3 month agoThree intersections are blocked at Mong Kok
3 month agoMany gates in Mong Kok Station have been destroyed. (9:50 PM)
3 month agoFire on Sai Yeung Choi Street South
3 month agoIn Aberdeen hundreds of people are gathering on the waterfront promenade to chant, watch #HKprotests footage and play with lasers. This place never sees demonstration
3 month agoDemonstration group now burns trash cans
3 month agoMultiple Pakistani civilians reportedly injured in Indian shelling in Khoiratta sector, along LoC
3 month agoAt least 50 riot police are charging towards MongKok from Nathan road after they fired rounds of tear gas
3 month agoRiot police are now going South. Sweeping Nathan road and the streets parallel to it. Protesters are in retreat. Riot police have stopped in front of Mongkok station. #HongKong
After capturing Khanabad district, Taliban have accelerated attacks on Kabul govt forces outposts, DHQ and PHQ of Dasht Archi district. Tense clashes ongoing at this moment, with govt forces losing areas quickly and seeing heavy casualties. Advancing.
3 month agoPolice just fired multiple bean bag rounds and tear gas. Now advancing
3 month agoTear gas has been fired. At least 5 rounds. Riot police are seen coming in from the North of Nathan Road, which stretches all the way down to Tsim Sha Tsui in the South of Kowloon
3 month ago21:22 Tear gas at Prince Edward
3 month agoPolice fired rounds of tear gas outside thr #PrinceEdward MTR station, protesters are moving quickly on Nathan Road. #HongKongProtests
3 month agoAt least 15 beanbag rounds fired at protesters hiding behind a double decker bus. Things are definitely escalating. Protesters have formed a front line a bit further behind the bus
3 month agoPolice firing bullet after bullet in Prince Edward, where a large crowd have gathered to demand the CCTV footage of the violent arrest in MTR station on 8.31. Some protesters are hiding behind the bus
3 month agoProtesters are breaking glass window of the #MongKok police station with rods and bricks. Hundreds are still here on the streets
3 month agoA group of protesters saw a small group of police standing across the street. They started shining laser lights on them while chanting "dark society" repeatedly. Anger is on the rise
3 month agoMilitary chopper over Farah
3 month agoJust one of the several buildings that were briefly captured by the Taliban. But ANDSF troops appear to have re-captured some of those places. Farah
3 month agoSmoke coming out of a building (mostly likely a govt building) in Farah city
3 month agoAt Prince Edward, protesters retreated to Nathan Road after police raised the black flag, warning of imminent tear gas, at 8pm. Photo: InMedia
3 month ago"TEAR SMOKE" flag raised at Mong Kok police station
3 month ago500 turned out for the human chain protest at Diocesan Boys School today, one of at least 40 protests at HK secondary schools this week, all demanding that all 5 of the protesters' demands be met
3 month agoNine Indonesian female migrant workers have returned home after they escaped a horrifying ordeal of being trafficked to China. At least one said she was forced to marry someone. @muannas_alaidid speaks about victims who are forced to get pregnant and give birth to a child
Earthquake of magnitude 4.8 - 199km SSE of Sarangani, Philippines
3 month agoNathan Road and Prince Edward Road, a major intersection and thoroughfare has been completely blocked. Chants of "Triad triad triad." at the police
3 month agoThe "Hong Kong Goddess of Democracy" statue dressed in protest protective gear — first unveiled this week at the Chinese University of Hong Kong — appears at Chater Garden on Friday evening. #antiELAB
3 month agoGetting ready for the tear gas at Prince Edward by the Mongkok police station. Half Nathan Rd blocked, many thousands of people converging asking for the footage from 8/31 to be made public
3 month agoGrowing crowd as people come here to bring flowers after work. Prince Edward station is closed and surrounded by people asking for the footage from 831 to be released. What happened at Prince Edward?
3 month agoHundreds of protesters gathered at Charter Garden in Central to protest against police brutality and while they chant different popular slogans from the #antiELABhk, a stature of geared protester holding a black flag is being erected
3 month agoChater Garden is getting packed with protesters
NDS claimed at least 13 people were released from a Taliban prison in an operation in Bakwa district in Faryab Province.
3 month agoNDS claimed mass arrest of alleged Taliban supporters in Kandahar. Afghanistan
3 month agoPrince Edward station: a large number of citizens gathered outside the station, and there was a conflict, The riot police had already been dispatched, and the crowd gathered in the direction of Nathan. (6:20 pm)
3 month ago[email protected] measures for planned airport transport protest disruption: Airport Express trains to run non-stop between Hong Kong-Airport from 9am Saturday until end of service - and will not stop at Kowloon (in-town check-in suspended), Tsing Yi and Asia World Expo stations
Earthquake of magnitude 4.9 - 7km W of Calatagan, Philippines
3 month agoRiot police out on standby at Mongkok Police Station already, after protesters shone laser pointers and chanted slogans outside PrinceEdward MTR station
3 month agoPrince Edward MTR station was closed less than an hour ago; people are still gathered outside the exit demanding the release of the August 31 CCTV footage
Earthquake of magnitude 4.8 - 37km NNW of Chauk, Burma
Hong Kong Stock Exchange says its website was hacked while it halted derivatives trading to fix unrelated software bug
3 month agoHundreds are outside the #PrinceEdward MTR station, protesters chanting "Give us the CCTV footage, tell the truth"
3 month agoAt Price Edward MTR station, gates are closed, trains no longer stop at the station. Crowds chanting outside the MTR station, "All five demands shall be fulfilled"
China's central bank says it will cut the amount of cash banks must hold as reserves, injecting liquidity into an economy facing renewed headwinds to growth
3 month agoSit-in at HK Hospital Authority
3 month agoMTR announces it is closing down Prince Edward station early Friday evening because of growing protests
3 month agoPakistan pledges the largest possible response to India's actions in Kashmir
MTR just announced it's closing Prince Edward station and is urging everyone to leave
Merkel in Beijing says Hong Kong freedoms must be 'guaranteed': spokesman
Sources familiar with President Ghani's scheduled trip to Washington DC say that it has been postponed for now
3 month agoMore photos of the human chain protest at CUHK this afternoon, @USPhongkong.
3 month agoSince this morning a growing number of people have taken part in a sit-in at Prince Edward station demanding that MTR release the footage
3 month agoA train near Tokyo derailed after colliding with a truck, killing one person and injuring at least 30 others
Juan Guaidó: "China is an ally of Venezuela, not Maduro"
3 month agoTaliban fighters captured Khan Abad district south of Kunduz. District officials confirmed to Azadi radio that Taliban overran the administration center this morning
3 month agoThe public requested that the 831 Prince Edward Station CCTV MTR finger segment be retained for 3 years.
Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 15km SE of Yibin, China
6 protesters arrested on 8.11 had bone fractures. 1 had a dislocated shoulder and four-part fractures of the proximal humerus, which required titanium staple and screws for fixation. Police also waited five hours before sending him to hospital
Heavy Clashes Ongoing In Farah: Officials
3 month agoMore details on recent reporting by @iyervval of Chinese roadbuilding in Arunachal Pradesh, @PlanetLabs imagery from July 2019 show the road clearly on the South side of the ridge (here draped over a terrain model) of the ridge, thereby in Indian territory (LoC)
3 month agoLittoral combat ship GABRIELLE GIFFORDS LCS10 quietly left San Diego Tues to deploy to Singapore. Sistership MONTGOMERY LCS8 already is in WestPac, the 1st time 2 LCSs are out at the same time. Gabby carries NSM Naval Strike Missiles; Monty has Harpoons
Myanmar's biggest airport closed after Chinese-made military plane skids off runway
Heavy clashes are ongoing between government forces and the Taliban on the outskirts of the city of Farah since Thursday night. Farah police spokesman Mohibullah Mohib said Taliban were pushed back after they attacked the city from three sides
President Ghani's trip to Washington comes after Kabul has shown frustration about the US-Taliban deal which is 'agreed in principle'
Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 - 44km E of Dinalongan, Philippines
Two back to back blasts in Quetta couple hours ago. The first blast targeted a police vehicle while the second occurred after first responders and journalists rushed to the scene. At least 8 wounded including 7 policemen and 1 journalist.
3 month agoRussia held big Strategic Missile troops drill near Novosibirsk
3 month agoNew UN Panel of Experts report is published. Interesting claims embedded in the annexes. "according to one Member State, the DPRK's current goal appears to be to develop a solid-fueled first stage for its ICBM"
Hang Hau MTR staff shut down gate as Hong Kong protests turn chaotic
3 month agoTonight in Tin Shui Wai is also "Glory to Hong Kong" being played
3 month agoA spontaneous human chain of students and residents in Tin Shui Wai this evening. Spreading from schools and universities, these human chains seem to be bursting out all over HK these days. Great expressions of solidarity and condemnation of govt and police. @StandNewsHK
Russia's Ambassador to North Korea has said Moscow will have sent home all North Korean migrant workers by the end of 2019, in line with a UN resolution. "The number of DPRK citizens in Russia on working visas has already decreased manifold," said Alexander Matsegora
NATO says US soldier killed in an explosion in the Afghan capital Kabul
3 month agoKabul blast today: Two @ResoluteSupport service members killed in the attack
Earthquake of magnitude 5.1 - 125km SSW of Biha, Indonesia
Kabul explosion: Blast occurred near @ResoluteSupport HQ and UK soldiers were at the scene, reports @AP, retrieving what appeared to be the remains of a @NATO vehicle.
Earthquake of magnitude 4.8 - East of the Kuril Islands
Putin: We are discussing with several countries, including China, the prospects of establishing an international organization to secure the traffic in the Gulf region
Prime Minister of India: We have made security arrangements for our tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz
Two petrol bombs thrown at residence main gate of HK pro-democracy news media Apple Daily owner Jimmy Lai at early hours of 9.5
Japan PM Abe says to Putin Tokyo will control U.S. missiles based on Japan soil
Putin on possible deployment of U.S. missiles in Japan and South Korea: we are not happy with that
3 month agoStudents and alumni from Kit Sam Lam Bing Yim Secondary School surrounded the campus w a human chain this morn, chanting, 'HK people, add oil.' and 'All 5 demands, not 1 less.' A day after the bill's withdrawal, student actions at many schools show that the struggle's far from over
3 month agoThe HKU med students were protesting in particular the many cases of police refusing to allow paramedics to attend to injured protesters, especially detainees. Their human chain was 400m long, from a teaching building on Sassoon Rd to Queen Mary Hospital
Pakistan moves over 2,000 troops close to LoC, Indian Army watching closely
At least 10 killed, 40 others wounded in the car bomb attack in Shash Drak area in Kabul: Ministry of Interior.
3 month agoSmall protest outside Green Zone - Kabul . Afghans calling on Interior and Defence Ministries to provide better protection
Negotiations between Russia and Japan on a peace treaty after meeting on Thursday between Putin and Abe remain unchanged - Kremlin
3 month agoA 27-year-old jumped to her death last night, her last words were "Hong Kongers, add oil." She was the 9th young person to commit suicide in protest of the HK government and the police force
Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 - Kuril Islands
The Japanese government has created a nationwide television broadcast advising civilians on how to protect themselves in the event of a North Korean missile attack.
