Author: Vallari Srivastava

As reported by state broadcaster CCTV, a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 crashed with 133 onboard in Southwest China. As of Monday, there was no information on any casualties in the incident. Rescue teams were dispatched to the scene, and the wreck “caused a mountain fire,” as per CCTV. There was no word on the cause of the crash. The American airliner crashed while on a flight from the city of Kunming to Guangzhou, as told by China’s Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). It crashed in the outskirts of Wuzhou city in the region of Guangxi. The passenger jet…

Japan Hit by A Powerful Earthquake At least four people died, and more than 100 were injured as an earthquake of 7.4 magnitude shook eastern Japan late Wednesday night. The earthquake cut the electricity supply of millions of homes as well. The earthquake was felt in the city of Soma, Fukushima, following which the government is on high alert as they fear more tremors may be felt across the region over the next few days. An aftershock of 5.6 magnitude hit an hour later at 1 a.m. on Thursday. The eastern prefecture of Fukushima has been devastated by a powerful…

One of the more unexpected consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine was that it upended China’s plan to invade Taiwan. According to documents that an analyst supposedly wrote for the Russian intelligence service in a Moscow-based security agency, As the western superpower, the USA, grapples with the fallout that emerged from the Russian invasion, American lawmakers and officials also seem to be wrestling with what the war could mean for a different territory halfway across the world with the threat of another invasion looming over their heads. According to the documents, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist…

While addressing the nation on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy offered Russian soldiers a ‘chance to survive’ by surrendering as he predicted victory over the Russian President. “The 19th day of our resistance is over. Historical war. Another difficult day, which is still approaching our victory. Approaching peace for Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said in the opening notes of his address according to his presidential office He says, “the enemy is confused” and does not expect stiff resistance from Ukraine. The Russian soldiers and officers are aware of this, and they flee the battlefield while abandoning the equipment, said the Ukrainian President.…

Correspondent for Fox News, Benjamin Hall was injured on March 14th in Ukraine while reporting outside of Kyiv. He has been hospitalised. Fox News executives have sparse information regarding the nature of the correspondent’s injuries. Benjamin Hall, aged 39, is a war correspondent who has covered various conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and other war-stricken countries. Hall joined Fox News in 2015 and was promoted to State Department correspondent just last year. Although the network has minimal details about the incident, they have teams working on the ground to gather additional information. The network said the safety of their…

Amid a surge of Covid-19 infection in the technological hub of China, Shenzhen, nearly 17.5 million residents were put into lockdown for a week once again. According to Bloomberg Economics, this action could have adverse effects on the Guangdong province in China, which accounts for 11% of the country’s GDP. The decision to impose a lockdown on Shenzhen does not come as a surprise, like other provinces in China scramble about to battle the outbreak of coronavirus once again. In-person classes have been suspended in Shanghai, while Changchun, a city of 9 million people that accounted for 11% of the…

As the war between Russia and Ukraine entered its third week, civilians across Ukraine were subjected to increasing attacks by Russian troops. There have been multiple accusations of Moscow committing war crimes so far. Ukrainian officials said that a hospital in the southern city of Mariupol was bombed following an airstrike where three people were killed on Thursday. Russian troops moved closer to the capital city of Kyiv as well and could be just ten miles from the centre of the town, reported a US defence official. Russia denies carrying out an airstrike in Mariupol The Russian defence ministry denied…