Many of the students staying there were thought to be in their rooms at the time of the collapse as there were no lessons on Sunday. A legislative assembly member said at the scene that some of the trapped students had been making calls from under the rubble. Eyewitnesses told local media that another building
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The U.S. can’t fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran can’t stop every ship from transporting oil through narrow waterway. At the same time, the U.S. is preventing Iran from exporting its crude supplies or importing critical goods, while American forces grapple with munitions and readiness issues. The result has been a stalemate where
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains major spoilers for “The Last House,” out now on Netflix. “The Last House” is a new sci-fi feature that just dropped on Netflix that’s built around a central mystery: What if you and all of your neighbors were locked inside your houses with no option for escape and had no idea
Several people are trapped inside a shopping mall after a strong earthquake hit southwestern Japan, authorities say. Some reports say there was an explosion at the Aeon Mall in Kumamoto, following the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that injured several people. The earthquake struck inland on the island of Kyushu at 16:27 local time (07:27 GMT), and
Amid the desperation created by the two earthquakes in Venezuela, there are also incredible stories of survival. In La Guaira, northern Venezuela, BBC international correspondent Yogita Limaye met a 12-year-old girl who was pulled from the rubble on Friday after more than thirty hours. Apart from a fracture in her left foot and some scratches