Russian President Vladimir Putin offered humanitarian assistance to North Korea after the country was struck by recent floods, which potentially claimed thousands of lives, with many people reportedly still missing. Putin’s gesture marks another sign of expanding relations between the two nations. The Russian president sent a message to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un […]
CAIRO—More than 1,300 people died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, Saudi authorities announced Sunday. Saudi Health Minister Fahd bin Abdurrahman Al-Jalajel said that 83 percent of the 1,301 fatalities were unauthorized pilgrims who walked long distances in soaring temperatures to perform the Hajj rituals in and around the city of Mecca. Speaking […]
The death toll is rising, and more U.S. citizens are confirmed dead amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. What is the United States saying about threats to its homeland security? Why were the terrorist attacks by Hamas not detected beforehand? Former Pentagon official Kash Patel discusses with us the intelligence failure in the […]
How deadly was China’s COVID-19 pandemic? Beijing’s suppression of virus origin data is now public knowledge, but little attention is given to the ongoing concealment of how many people died. In this exclusive report, we look beyond the Chinese Communist Party’s official numbers to reveal the rest of the story—and the truth is shocking. This […]
TALAT N’YAAQOUB, Morocco—Villagers wept for lost relatives in the rubble of their homes on Monday as the death toll from Morocco’s deadliest earthquake in more than six decades rose to more than 2,800 and rescuers raced against time to find survivors. Search teams from Spain, Britain, and Qatar were joining Moroccan rescue efforts after a […]
LAHAINA, Hawaii—Blackened hulks of burned-out cars, the pavement streaked with melted and then rehardened chrome. Block after block of flattened homes and businesses. Incinerated telephone poles, and elevator shafts rising from ashy lots where apartment buildings once stood. A truck bed full of glass bottles, warped into surreal shapes by the furious heat. Anthony Garcia […]
BUSHUSHU, Democratic Republic of Congo—Dead bodies were still being recovered on Monday from two villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where floods killed more than 400 people last week in one of the country’s deadliest disasters in recent history. Many dazed survivors were mourning multiple family members killed in the flash floods that swept […]
The Lunar New Year is the biggest and most celebrated holiday in China each year. Each year Chinese people make billions of trips across the country to visit their families during that holiday period. However, data recently released by China’s Ministry of Transport indicate that trips during this year’s Lunar New Year—which spans 40 days—had […]
More reports suggest Beijing is severely underreporting its COVID-19 death toll. China announced that there have been nearly 80,000 deaths in hospitals across the country since virus restrictions measures were lifted on Dec. 8. Officials also stated the country’s death toll reached its peak of about 4,300 at the start of January. But experts are […]
China’s official COVID-19 death toll is facing new questions. The death toll in one single city is now twice as high as the official death toll for the whole country. The death toll in Shanghai, China’s financial hub, has been increasing dramatically since early December when the Chinese Communist Party lifted pandemic restrictions. Reporters from […]
China rang in the Lunar New Year on Sunday. The nation’s people largely prayed for good health in 2023 after three years of stress under the pandemic. At the same time, concerns are rising over a mass migration of travelers who are looking to celebrate. And experts warn that a second wave of COVID-19 infections […]
The lack of transparency regarding the pandemic situation in China is making a lot of countries and world organizations worried. The Chinese regime’s official COVID death toll remains low, despite reports of hospitals and morgues being overwhelmed. NTD spoke to Cindy Yu, an assistant editor at a British magazine, The Spectator, and host of the […]
The growing number of deaths of celebrities and public figures in China has cast further doubt on the official death toll as the country battles an extreme outbreak that shows little sign of easing. Since late November, more than 330 Chinese celebrities, officials, and scholars have died, according to a tally by The Epoch Times. […]
China’s official COVID-19 death toll is now about 60,000. But a study from Peking University estimated around 900 million infection cases, with about 80 percent of them showing severe symptoms. NTD spoke to Dr. Scott Atlas, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford and former adviser of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, […]
DNIPRO, Ukraine—The death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro rose to 29 Sunday, the regional governor reported as rescue workers scrambled to reach survivors in the rubble. Emergency crews worked through the frigid night and all day at the multi-story residential building, where officials […]
With the death toll surge across China, new funeral homes are being built in some cities. Based on a video clip from Chinese social media, a funeral home in Northern China’s Harbin city is building more than 20 makeshift morgues. The structures will store human remains. The extra room will help cope with the demand […]
The death toll of an earthquake in southwestern China this week has risen to 86 while another 35 people are still missing, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Thursday. The actual number of casualties from such events may be much higher. The actual number of casualties is difficult to verify, as the Chinese regime routinely suppresses […]
CAIRO—More than 70 people have been killed and 14,500 homes destroyed by Sudan’s seasonal downpours and floods, a senior official said Thursday. The death toll since the rainy season kicked off in May stood at 77 people, Brig. Gen. Abdul-Jalil Abdul-Rahim, spokesman for Sudan’s National Council for Civil Defense, told The Associated Press. The provinces […]
