At least 123 people were injured in an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter on Monday which shook the southern Peruvian department of Ica, the National Civil Defense Institute (Indeci) said. Most of the injured suffered only slight bruises and were soon discharged from local hospitals, Indeci said, adding that some 50 homes were damaged [...]
Police fired tear gas and arrested more than 200 people and four people were injured as anti-Wall Street protesters tried but failed to take over downtown buildings, including City Hall, in Oakland, California. Protesters from Occupy Oakland – the local offshoot of Occupy Wall Street – first targeted the Henry Kaiser Convention Center on Saturday, before proceeding to a YMCA and then City Hall, police [...]
A rehab center for drug addicts in the Peruvian capital caught fire Saturday morning, killing at least 32 people. According to local radio RPP, the fire that swept the two-storey building was caused by an explosion of a gas cooker inside the center, but eyewitnesses said the blaze started as some inmates set fire to [...]
Twitter, a hugely popular social networking site for microblogging, has said that “if required by the law” it can block tweets in a particular country. In a post titled ‘Tweets Must Still Flow’, Twitter, which has around 300 million users, wrote on its official blog, “Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users [...]
In a move that has triggered outrage, Google has announced plans to bring all data collected from users’ separate accounts on its sites into a combined profile. Besides raising dubious questions about privacy, this offer is one you… cannot refuse. The changes will take effect on March 1. Before that date, Google will notify its [...]
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera on Friday urged students not to stage protests that affected the South American country last year and to make 2012 a “more constructive” year. “I want to ask you to make 2012 a more constructive year. If protests, violence and ‘seizures’ continue, we aren’t going to move forward,” said Pinera during [...]
At least 13 people died and 13 more injured in two road accidents in Peru, Highway Police (Polcar) reported on Friday. Polcar said the worst accident occurred early Friday morning, when a van fell 150 meters down a precipice in Succha of Sanchez Carrion Province, 550 kilometers northwest the capital city of Lima. According to [...]
Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo has overcome the lymphatic cancer diagnosed in August 2010, according to a hospital statement released here Friday. “Medical examinations confirm the complete remission of lymphoma,” said the medical team treating Lugo at the Sao Paulo-based Syrian-Lebanese Hospital. The 60-year-old Paraguayan president underwent a medical examination in the hospital Friday morning and [...]
As the United States pivots its security priorities to the Asia Pacific, it has no interest in establishing new bases in the region, but rather it will rotate forces there, Robert Willard, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, told reporters on Friday. “There is no desire nor view right now that the U.S. is seeking [...]
The Pentagon detailed the Defense Department cuts on Thursday that US President Barack Obama hinted at earlier in the month. While the agenda for the DoD isn’t full of surprises, it exemplifies a trend that the military has seen more and more as of late: droves of drones replacing real-life soldiers. Under the Pentagon’s new [...]
