Ani Naqvi was almost killed in the 2004 disaster but used the experience to give her a new purpose.
Day: December 26, 2024
SEOUL – South Korea’s opposition will push for a vote on Friday on an impeachment motion against acting president Han Duck-soo, after he refused to appoint Constitutional Court judges to complete the process of removing his predecessor from office.
The acquisition was announced four years after metal detectorist Mariusz Stepien uncovered the hoard in a field.
The Asian tsunami that crashed into coastal communities around the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26, 2004, is this century’s deadliest natural disaster so far.
People from the South East who were touched by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami look back 20 years on.
South Korea’s main opposition party has submitted a motion to impeach the country’s acting leader over his reluctance to fill three Constitutional Court vacancies ahead of the court’s review of rebellion charges against impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol stemming from his short-lived martial law decr
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Under the shade of trees at a mass grave in Indonesia’s Aceh province, survivors and mourners recited Islamic prayers, commemorating the deaths of tens of thousands killed when a tsunami decimated the area two decades ago.It is one of several prayer sites across western Indonesia — including a grand mosque and other mass graves — holding ceremonies that drew thousands of mourners who remember the December 26, 2004, tsunami.
With better technology, we could further shorten the time between an earthquake and when the tsunami warning goes out.