Kepala bergetar, Author at Kepala TV9

Gunmen murder Rohingya teacher, student in Bangladesh

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Gunmen in Bangladesh killed a teacher and a student in a Rohingya refugee camp because they refused to return to Myanmar to fight, their parents said today. Hundreds of Rohingya men and boys have been detained in refugee camps in Bangladesh, where they fled after Myanmar’s military expelled about 750,000 …

Indonesia’s Mount Ibu erupts again, spews hot ash and sand

A volcano in eastern Indonesia today spewed a cloud six kilometers into the sky, the latest of about a hundred eruptions since the beginning of this year. The latest eruption of Mount Ibu, on the island of Halmahera in the North Moluccas region, occurred at 3:30 a.m. local time and …

Papua New Guinea says more than 2,000 people buried in landslide

Papua New Guinea informed the UN today that more than 2,000 people were buried in a massive landslide that swept over a remote village, according to a copy of the letter obtained by AFP. “The landslide buried more than 2,000 people alive and caused major destruction,” the country’s national disaster …

Hospital owner in India arrested after 6 babies die in fire

Indian police today said they had arrested a doctor and the owner of an unlicensed hospital where six newborn babies died in a fire in a crowded ward without fire exits. The blaze broke out at the New Born Baby Care hospital in New Delhi’s Vivek Vihar area late Saturday …

Cyclone Remal kills 10, destroys 30,000 homes in Bangladesh

The death toll from the cyclone that hit low-lying areas of Bangladesh has risen to at least 10 people, with more than 30,000 homes destroyed and tens of thousands more damaged, senior local officials said today. “They mostly died after being crushed under collapsed houses or collapsed walls,” said Showkat …

African election could spell the end of ANC’s dominance

South Africans will vote this Wednesday with widespread anger over power cuts, unemployment and corruption that threaten to end the dominance of the African National Congress, 30 years after Nelson Mandela brought it to power. At no time since the world’s media broadcast iconic images of black South African voters …