Tens of thousands of Chileans have rallied in Santiago, still demanding constitutional changes a year after mass protests left dozens dead, but the peaceful event eventually descended into chaos, with clashes, looting and arson. The protest in the capital of Chile erupted in scuffles with police and looting of supermarkets on Sunday evening. Masked mobs firebombed a police headquarters and church later in the day. While firefighters and even some […]
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At least one person has been killed after a roof collapsed on the campus of Curtin University in Western Australia. Several injuries have been reported as emergency workers search through the rubble for survivors. A glass ceiling caved in at a construction site located on the premises of the Perth university on Tuesday. Firefighters and paramedics are at the scene and have begun to look for […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106759/27/1067592722_0:128:3000:1815_1200x675_80_0_0_53602a5ffb625cbd2acda47df0c22e0c.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202008291080313531-five-people-killed-as-hotel-collapses-in-chinas-shanxi-province-reports-suggest/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – At least five people have been killed and one more was wounded, as a hotel collapsed in China’s northern Shanxi province, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Saturday, adding that over 700 people are participating in search and rescue operations. The two-story building located in the province’s Linfen urban district collapsed at about 9:40 a. m. […]
Livestream video captured the exact moment a priest and his parishioners were forced to duck and dodge falling debris before fleeing for their lives as their church was consumed by the powerful Beirut port explosion. Debris rained down on the congregation as the powerful blast blew in all of the windows and iron doors of the Paroisse St. Maron Baouchrieh church. Livestream footage shared online recorded […]
US GDP Collapses And Economic Rebound Fades August 4, 2020 US GDP Collapses And Economic Rebound Fades2020-08-042020-08-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/landt-e1596569763396.jpg200px200px Above photo: The Boston Lord & Taylor store placed Store Closing Sale signs in its windows as it declares bankruptcy. Michael Lisicky/JDB. This past week US economy collapsed in the 2nd quarter by 32.9% at annual rate and nearly 10% just for the April-June period. Never before in modern US […]
Amid a global pandemic that has killed 150,000 Americans and is slowing like a train that just started to choo choo over a cliff, 100 days from an election that is the fifth consecutive most important election in our lifetimes, first lady Melania Trump will begin the important work of renovating the Rose Garden to more closely resemble its original 1960s design. Finally! This is what […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): Monsoons in India between June-September typically turn out to be nasty for low-lying and coastal areas, often resulting in death and destruction. This year, at the outset of the season, at least 110 people have already been killed and 32 injured in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. In India, where hundreds of thousands of people have been pushed into extreme poverty by the COVID-19 […]
Just eight months after the Trump administration invoked an obscure provision of the 2001 Patriot Act to hold him indefinitely, Adham Amin Hassoun is on the verge of taking his first free breath in 18 years, after a federal judge raised “serious concerns about governmental conduct” in the now-junked case against him. “There’s nothing that tastes better than freedom,” Hassoun, 58, told The Daily Beast from […]