Tajik Interior Minister Ramazon Rahimzoda has said that two former top police officials were involved in the disappearance in June of Shuhrat Ismatulloev, the deputy chairman of one of the Centra Asian country’s leading banks.
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Taiwan hit by strongest earthquake in 25 years
A 7.4 magnitude earthquake shook Taiwan on Wednesday morning April 03, 2024 with shocks felt across the island. The earthquake, called the largest in the last 25 years in Taiwan, was triggered by one of the most active faults in the world.
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A radioactive cylinder has gone missing in Thailand
Authorities in Thailand are scrambling to locate a metal cylinder with dangerous radioactive contents that went missing from a power plant this week, warning the public of serious health risks should they come across it. The cylinder, measuring 30 centimeters long and 13 centimeters wide, was reported missing during routine checks by staff on March 10, at the coal power plant in Prachin Buri, a province in central Thailand, east of the capital Bangkok.
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Mutinous soldiers in Gabon ousted president whose family has ruled for 55 years
Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba was under house arrest, hours after he was declared the winner in an election that extended his family’s 55-year reign in the oil-rich Central African nation. Gabon’s people celebrate his potential ouster because Bongo’s family has been accused of getting rich on the country’s resource wealth while many of its citizens struggle to scrape by.
