KERICHO, Kenya, June 30 (Xinhua) -- At least 45 people were killed and several others injured in a road accident along a busy highway in western Kenya on Friday evening, the police confirmed. Tom Odero, Rift Valley Regional police commander, said the 6:30 p.m. accident occurred after the driver of a...
NEW DELHI– At least two people were killed and five others injured Friday after a solvent reactor exploded at a pharmaceutical company in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, officials said. The explosion took place at the Sahiti Pharma Company in the Achutapuram Pharma Special...
KIGALI– The number of obese people in Rwanda has increased from 14 percent in 2013 to 18.6 percent in 2022, according to the latest government survey released Friday. This is contained in findings from the second Rwanda Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) Risk Factors Survey, released by the...
NEW DELHI, India -- At least seven people, including five women and a child, died and 12 others sustained severe injuries in a road accident in India's southern state of Karnataka on Friday, confirmed a local police officer over the phone. Â Â Â The mishap occurred when a heavy vehicle...
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Friday condemned the Quran-burning in Sweden, according to the official news agency IRNA. Â Â Â In an address to worshippers in the southeastern Iranian province of Kerman, he said the desecration insulted the "most valuable divine book" and...
NEW DELHI, India -- At least six people died and two others were seriously injured when a car collided with a parked truck on the roadside in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India in the early hours of Friday, confirmed a local cop over the phone. Banda District Magistrate Durga Shakti Nagpal...
NEW DELHI, India -- Fifty-two bodies from India's deadly train crash on June 2 haven't been identified yet and they will be cremated soon, said a senior government representative on Friday. Nearly 300 people died in the crash, in which two passenger trains and one goods train collided in the eastern...
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's western province of Yogyakarta on Friday evening, but did not trigger a tsunami, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Four people from the same family drowned in a dam in Jhelum district of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, the rescue service reported. According to the reports, the incident took place on Thursday when a man along with his two sons and a brother-in-law were swimming in Raja...
STOCKHOLM- COVID-19 health and safety measures for aviation were formally retired by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) on Thursday. The Aviation Health Safety Protocol (AHSP) was issued by the two agencies in May 2020,...
PARIS, FRANCE- French security forces on Thursday deployed tear gas as they clashed with protesters during a rally triggered by the fatal shooting of Nahel M, a 17-year-old teenager, by a police officer during a traffic stop on Tuesday. The march in Nanterre, a town on the western outskirts of...
UNITED NATIONS -Since fighting broke out in Sudan in mid-April, more than 2.6 million people have fled their homes, with more than 560,000 of them becoming international refugees, UN humanitarians said on Thursday. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), more...
