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Security personnel detain India’s Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi (front second right) as he stages a sit-in protest calling for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s resignation outside the…
Fifteen Indian workers were feared trapped yesterday after a blast caused by a suspected gas leak in a tunnel at a hydroelectric project in the rugged state of Sikkim killed ten, authorities said.Monday’s incident took place at state-owned National Hydroelectric Power Corp Ltd’s project on the Teesta river in the northeastern state’s village of Samardung, district official Subash Ghimirey told Reuters. A sudden burst of gas suspected to be methane trapped or embedded in rocks in the tunnel caused an explosion that sent out dense fumes and toxic gas, NHPC said in a statement.Survival chances for the trapped workers were slim, state disaster management official Rajiv Roka said, as rescuers had to battle the fumes, making their task difficult. At least 25 project workers and officials were trapped in the tunnel, NHPC said, a tally that includes the 10 bodies retrieved.Photographs on the state government’s Facebook page showed rescuers wearing orange hazard suits unloading oxygen cylinders, ropes and other emergency equipment from a vehicle. Source link
President Donald Trump on Wednesday pledged that the United States would bomb Iranian civil infrastructure every time that Tehran fires at ships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz.”Any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT,” he wrote on social media. Source link
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said yesterday the Iran war has cost the United States $37.5bn so far, up from a previous estimate of nearly $29bn in mid-May. “The estimate we have as of today is $37.5bn,” Hegseth testified during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing at which he defended a request for some $67bn in supplemental funding for the Pentagon. Source link
There is no evidence as yet to suggest that lettuce sourced from Mexico caused a cyclosporiasis outbreak in the US, Mexico’s health minister David Kershenobich said yesterday. The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported approximately 100 hospitalisations linked to the parasitic infection, which causes severe diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms. The outbreak has been traced to shredded iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell restaurants in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. Source link
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday the United States is still willing to negotiate an end to the Iran crisis but Tehran is not serious about talks.Rubio made his comments in a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers in the Philippine capital, Manila.Rubio said Washington was “always committed to diplomacy” but doubted whether Tehran was equally committed to negotiations.”The problem we’re having right now is that they’re not serious about talks. If they’re serious, we’re serious. If they’re not, then we will do what’s necessary to protect our interests, and also the interests of our allies,” Rubio said.He stressed that Iran could not be allowed to control the Strait of Hormuz, arguing it would create a dangerous precedent for the world.”If we create a precedent in the Middle East where a nation state can decide that they are going to control an international waterway, charge a toll, and if you don’t pay them blow up your ships, we have created a very dangerous precedent, which will repeat itself in other parts of the world, including in this region,” Rubio said.The US resumed its direct military strikes against Iran following the collapse of a temporary ceasefire agreement reached last April. Related Story Source link
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his wife Jeanette Dousdebes Rubio arrive ahead of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, at…
Seven people were killed, including three children, and five others were injured on Monday night when a passenger bus crashed into a barrier and caught fire in Dong Nai, southern Vietnam.Vietnamese media reported today that the bus veered off course and crashed into a guardrail near an intersection in Dong Nai city on the highway.The collision caused a fire at the front entrance of the bus, preventing passengers from exiting, and resulted in the death of seven people and injuries to five others.The cause of the accident is still under investigation.Vietnam recorded 16,816 traffic accidents last year, resulting in 9,502 deaths and 11,142 injuries, according to Vietnam’s National Statistics Office. Related Story Source link
Andy Burnham became Britain's seventh prime minister in a decade Monday, pledging to reshape its politics to deliver a new economic model and revive a nation ‘fed up’ with a revolving door of leaders.In front of dozens of supporters outside his new office and residence at 10 Downing Street, Burnham said politicians had failed to bring the stability needed to raise living standards, something he said he would change, with both immediate measures and a longer-term plan to be drawn up later this year.Speaking without notes, Burnham delivered a domestic-focused speech aimed at offering hope to a nation that has, like many European countries, struggled for years with soaring prices and anaemic economic growth. He did not touch on foreign affairs.And with his first appointment as finance minister, Burnham pressed home his decision to rip up politics as usual. He appointed former defence minister John Healey to the second most powerful position in Britain, promoting a man who resigned under Keir Starmer in protest at the inflexibility of the Treasury.’I know people at home are fed up with politics. I hear you, and I want to be honest with you, we have not been good enough and we need to be better,’ Burnham said, dispensing with the lectern that prime ministers generally use. Burnham pledged to use his premiership as a ‘circuit-breaker for Britain’, arguing that a new model was needed to rebuild the country, which has been in political turmoil since voting in 2016 to leave the European Union.Just over an hour after his predecessor and Labour colleague Keir Starmer had made his farewell speech to say ‘My work is done’, the 56-year-old former Greater Manchester mayor entered Downing Street, where he said his team would tackle his first priority: to end rough sleeping. Source link
Rescuers search for missing people during an operation after a passenger boat KM Nurul Salsa sank off Selayar island in South Sulawesi, Indonesia,on Friday. (Reuters) Two survivors from a passenger boat that sank off eastern Indonesia were found on an uninhabited island yesterday, a rescue official said, a day after five others were rescued floating in the sea.The vessel, which was carrying more than 70 people, sank on Wednesday as it sailed near Selayar, a small island south of the larger Sulawesi.Yesterday, rescuers found a man and a woman who had made it to a tiny island by clinging to a makeshift flotation device.The duo said four others who had been with them had not made it.“Some of them became weak and could no longer hold on to the raft, and eventually drifted away,” local search-and-rescue official Muhammad Arif Anwar told AFP.“Hopefully we can still find their companions.”Five other survivors, including a seven-year-old girl, were rescued on Saturday after floating at sea for three days.“After the ship sank, each of them saved themselves using whatever equipment or makeshift flotation they could find,” Arif told AFP earlier yesterday.“They rigged together jerry cans and pieces of cork tied up with rope, then climbed on top of them.”The group was rescued on Saturday afternoon by local fishermen, who radioed officials for help, he said.The survivors, tired and weak after floating for days without enough food or water, had sustained themselves with packets of instant noodles and biscuits.Five large ships, a reconnaissance aircraft and a helicopter are being used in ongoing search efforts for 18 people still believed missing, Arif said.About 50 people were rescued on Thursday, officials said.Rescuers said the vessel listed only 50 people on board, but further verification found there were 78 on the ship.It is common in Indonesia for the number of actual passengers on a boat to differ from the manifest. Accidents are a regular occurrence, due in part to lax safety standards and inclement weather.Three Spanish tourists died when their boat sank off eastern Indonesia in January. A 10-year-old boy was listed as officially missing after authorities ended the search. …
