SMS system down in Iran just hours before election
Region: IranPer Ghalam News and multiple Twitterers in Tehran, the SMS (Short Message Service) system in Iran has been taken down, just hours before polls open for Friday’s presidential election. The Ghalam New... more
Views: 2948Twitter relays info on Holocaust Museum shooting in Washington, D.C.
Region: District of ColumbiaPer the Washington Post, two people, including a security guard, were shot today inside the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. The shooting was reported to police at 12:52 p.m. local time. The first tweet on the ... more
Views: 2469Fireworks and guns heard in Lebanon as election results stream in
Region: LebanonPer Reuters, the Hezbollah alliance, backed by Iran and Syria, has lost the parliamentary elections to the United States-backed March 14 party and its allies, according to a senior politician. Other news outlets, including... more
Views: 1766Peruvian protest over Amazon Rainforest turns deadly
Region: PeruPer The New York Times, violence has erupted between indigenous protesters and the Peruvian police in the northern Bagua Province. The indigenous groups were protesting the government’s plans to open vast tracts of r... more
Views: 3292Tokyo experiences moderate earthquake
Region: JapanPer the USGS, a 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Saturday afternoon near Honshu, Japan, and it was felt in Tokyo just 110 kilometers (70 miles) away. It is not yet clear if the quake was an aftershock of a 6.3 quake that s... more
Views: 2580Earthquake shakes Northern Japan
Region: JapanPer Yahoo! Japan, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake shook Northern Japan at 12:30 p.m. local time on Friday. The epicenter was in Tokachi-oki and the quake was felt strongly in nearby Hokkaido and Sapporo, Japan. Per the ma... more
Views: 3451Brazil mulls over controversial bill to legitimize land-grab in Amazon
Region: BrazilBrazil’s president Lula da Silva has a controversial bill on his hands: it is his call to approve or veto a law that will grant land title to 300,000 properties illegally established across some 600,000 square kilo... more
Views: 1683Zuma promises 4 million jobs by 2014
Region: South AfricaPer Bloomberg, South Africa President Jacob Zuma pledged to create four million jobs by 2014, including 500,000 by the end of this year, in his state of the nation address Wednesday. He said that the government would boost... more
Views: 1662Air France jet missing over Atlantic, presumed crashed
Region: BrazilPer CNN, Air France flight 447 carrying 228 passengers from Rio de Janeiro heading to Paris was reported missing early Monday morning. The jet lost contact with the airlines shortly after it flew over a stormy area with st... more
Views: 2139Iceland keeps shaking with earthquakes
Region: IcelandPer Ice News, Iceland has had “438 earthquakes” in 48 hours, mostly small tremors and aftershocks but still an enormous amount of seismic activity. The most notable earthquake registered at 6.1 on the Richter S... more
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