13 h. ago Japan's 'Baba Vanga' predicted earthquake days before disaster struck

Ryo Tatsuki, who has earned a reputation as 'Japan's Baba Vanga', has apparently seen one of her most chilling predictions come true today, while tourists have been left too spooked to book flights

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41 h. ago ‘The ground shook’: drone attacks help Haitian government wrest control of capital from criminal gangs

Video shared on social media shows drone attacks, which some say have helped pacify gangs inflicting violence on Port-au-PrinceWarning: this story contains footage that readers might find distressing The earth beneath Jimmy Antoine’s apartment shuddered and for a split second he feared another natural disaster had struck, like the 2010 cataclysm that brought Port-au-Prince to its knees.“The ground shook like it does during an earthquake. You tremble like everything might collapse,” said the 23-year-old trainee mechanic, recalling how he and his panicked neighbours raced out on to the street. Continue reading...

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65 h. ago Japanese Baba Vanga's chilling prediction that sparked mass travel cancellations is meant to happen THIS WEEK

A prediction made by manga artist Ryo Tatsuki more than 25 years ago is being blamed for a major fall in holiday bookings to Japan by people from multiple Asian countries.

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8 d. ago Inside the revolting story of the infamous ‘poop cruise’: ‘Complete media bloodbath’

The story of the 2013 Carnival Triumph cruise, which descended into chaos after the toilets gave up in the middle of the sea, has been turned into a wild Netflix documentaryElevator pitches don’t get much more captivating, and possibly revolting, than “poop cruise” – a modern day Gilligan’s Island tale that’s almost too good to be true.For those who may have missed the headlines in 2013: a two-day transit from Galveston, Texas, to Cozumel, Mexico turned disastrous when an engine room fire struck the Carnival Triumph and stranded its 4,100-odd passengers and crew in the Gulf of Mexico. The fire devastated the Triumph’s electrical nerve center and crippled the auxiliary systems aboard the ship, from the wifi to the toilets – which literally backed up into cabins and spilled into the hallways. After three days adrift, the Triumph was towed to Mobile, Alabama – but not before the limits of socially conditioned behavior approached a breaking point. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Strictly's Saffron Barker close to tears as she suffers holiday disaster while on yacht

Strictly Come Dancing star Saffron Barker was on holiday in Dubai with her boyfriend and her parents when disaster struck

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2 w. ago Foolish tourist sparks major rescue operation after trying to get 'a closer look' at Kīlauea volcano eruption

Disaster struck on June 11, when the 30-year-old Boston tourist veered from the Byron Ledge Trail at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park with no headlamp or flashlight.

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4 w. ago 'Japan's Baba Vanga' foresees 'devastation' in chilling prediction for 2030

Comic artist Ryo Tatsuki, who predicted the Covid-19 pandemic and Princess Diana's death, has been dubbed as Japan's version of the famed Bulgarian psychic

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4 w. ago Psychic dubbed 'Japan's Baba Vanga' issues terrifying prediction for 2030

Ryo Tatsuki, a comic artist from Japan, has made many predictions which have come true including the Covid-19 pandemic, leading her to be compared to the Bulgarian mystic Baba Vanga

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4 w. ago Brit woman falls to her death from Thai hotel walkway after night out as fellow UK tourist found dead on beach on paradise island is named

The 58-year-old, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, was returning to her room after a night out with her partner on the Thai holiday island in the early hours of June 4 before disaster struck.

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