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The rains which began on Monday night flooded settlements, ravaged homes, swept away roads and displaced dozens. In a statement on Wednesday, the provincial government, which confirmed the number of dead, said the fatalities could rise further.
Source: aljazeera.com
Fourteen others -- eight French and six Belgians -- were taken to hospital with "broken bones, bruises and superficial injuries" but all were in a stable condition, the governor of the southern province of Aswan said. The other five people killed were all Egyptian. The accident occurred on early wednesday morning when the bus collided with a car as it was transporting the tourists.
Source: france24.com
World Bank President David Malpass, in remarks at the Warsaw School of Economics in Poland on Tuesday, said the organisation was helping Ukraine provide critical services, including paying wages for hospital workers, pensions and social programmes.
Source: aljazeera.com
Greece said on Wednesday that pandemic restrictions such as mask-wearing indoors and COVID certificates will be lifted throughout the summer tourism period and authorities will consider reinstating them in September. Coronavirus infections in Greece have eased in recent weeks, with authorities recording 15,000 infections and 64 deaths on Tuesday. Out of a population of 11 million, some 72% are fully vaccinated.
Source: reuters.com
Tyson Fury and other boxers along with promoters and administrators have been warned to cut ties with the “crime boss” Daniel Kinahan or risk being involved in a criminal network. Kinahan, his brother Christy and his father Christy Sr have been sanctioned by the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (Ofac) and have had their American assets frozen, with a $5million reward being offered for their arrest and conviction.
Source: thetimes.co.uk
An overloaded truck carrying 29 people hit a hillside and overturned near an illegal gold mine in Indonesia’s West Papua province on Wednesday, killing 17 people and leaving others injured, police said. The truck, crammed with miners and their families, was headed to the capital of West Papua province Manokwari to celebrate Easter. They were on their way from a mining area in Minyambou village of Arfak Mountain district when it hit the mountain and flipped over before dawn, said local police chief Parisian Herman Gultom.
Source: apnews.com
"If all American leaders are killed, this will still not avenge the blood of Soleimani. We have to follow Soleimani's path and avenge him through other methods," Mohammad Pakpour, ground forces commander of the Revolutionary Guards, said. Soleimani was killed in January 2020 by the U.S. military while on a visit to Iraq. Iran vowed a "crushing revenge" on all those responsible for his assassination.
Source: reuters.com
Luka Modric turned the tie and Karim Benzema settled it as Real Madrid held off a sensational fightback from Chelsea on Tuesday to win an enthralling Champions League quarter-final 5-4 on aggregate.
Source: france24.com
An Italian woman who missed out on formal education because of the second world war has returned to the classroom to study for her school diploma – at the age of 90. Annunziata Murgia is the oldest person to ever attend lessons for the licenza media, or middle school diploma, an exam typically taken by children in lower secondary education at the age of 14. She does so at the evening school close to her home in Dolianova, Sardinia.
Source: theguardian.com
Gilbert Gottfried, the actor and legendary standup comic known for his raw, scorched voice and crude jokes, has died. He was 67. Gottfried died from a rare genetic muscle disease that can trigger a dangerously abnormal heartbeat, his publicist and longtime friend Glenn Schwartz said in a statement.
Source: apnews.com
Most of the deaths from tropical storm Megi – the strongest to hit the Southeast Asian archipelago this year – were in the central province of Leyte. At least 47 people were confirmed to have been killed and more than 100 injured after waves of mud smashed into some six villages around Baybay City over the weekend, local authorities said. Some 27 people remain missing.
Source: aljazeera.com
Multiple people were shot and at least 13 were injured on Tuesday in a New York City subway station where authorities found undetonated explosive devices, the Fire Department said, in the latest spasm of violence in the city's transit system. The incident occurred during the morning commute at the 36th Street subway station in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood, according to news media. CNN and other media reported that at least five people were shot, citing sources in the New York Fire Department.
Source: reuters.com
At least 50 people have been killed and dozens abducted by gunmen in Plateau state in central Nigeria, residents and a community leader said on Monday. The state shares a border with Kaduna state, currently a haven for criminal gangs known locally as bandits.
Source: aljazeera.com
Prime Minister of the UK Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak will be fined by the police for attending parties during lockdown. No 10 confirmed the pair had received notification from the Metropolitan Police that they would be given fixed penalty notices. But a spokesman said they had no further details. So far, more than 50 fines have been handed out.
Source: bbc.com
Turkish authorities have detained 46 people, including former local officials from a pro-Kurdish political party, who are suspected of having financial links to Kurdish militants, the state-run news agency reported on Tuesday. The detained are among 91 suspects sought by a chief prosecutor for allegedly “providing financial resources on behalf” of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, Anadolu Agency reported. They are accused of being a part of the PKK’s “economic structure,” of money-laundering and of taking instructions from PKK commander Murat Karayilan, it said.
Source: apnews.com
British actor Hugh Laurie, best known for playing an eccentric doctor in the TV series "House", brings what he says is his favourite Agatha Christie novel to the screen with his new TV show "Why Didn't They Ask Evans?". The three-part mini-series was written, produced and directed by Laurie, who also stars in a supporting role.
Source: reuters.com
At least 20 people are thought to have died in South Africa’s eastern coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal due to unusually heavy rainfall, according to media reports, while officials were still trying to assess the extent of the damage. There are fears that numerous people have been injured while damage to property was extensive in the overnight rains. The military has been put on alert. The city of Durban was affected the most in the overnight floods.
Source: aljazeera.com
On April 12, President of the Artsakh Republic held a meeting in Askeran with responsible officials of the region, community heads and local residents. A range of issues related to the military-political situation in the republic, security-related as well as socio-economic problems were on the discussion agenda. The Head of the State referred to the imperative of ensuring food security and employment in the current geopolitical conditions, emphasizing the need to make consistent efforts to intensify agricultural work, to efficiently use uncultivated lands and all possible economic resources in general.
Source: Office of the President of the Republic of Artsakh
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