25 dead in Kenya road accident
Tweet Nairobi: At least 25 people died in western Kenya when a speeding lorry rammed into a passenger van, Xinhua reported Saturday. The accident occurred at 9.00 p.m. Friday on the Kisumu-Kakamega highway, spokesperson for Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) Nelly Muluka said. Passengers from both the vehicles were among those who lost their lives. [...]
Tweet London: British Energy Minister Chris Huhne resigned Friday, Xinhua reported. Police said they would prosecute him for allegedly perverting the course of justice in relation to driving a car above the speed limit in 2003. Director of public prosecution Keir Starmer told journalists the charges alleged that Huhne had falsely told police between March [...]
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Tweet Kiev: As many as 43 people have fallen victim to freezing temperatures that hit Ukraine in the last few days, the country’s Emergencies Ministry has stated. According to the ministry, 28 people were found dead in the streets, eight died in hospitals, and seven at home, said an official statement Wednesday. The mercury fell [...]
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Tweet Moscow: Russia would make another attempt to send a Phobos-Grunt probe to Mars’ satellite in 2018, a leading space expert has said. According to Lev Zeleny, director of the academy’s Institute of Space Research, the probe would be named Phobos-Grunt-2. The plan was initiated by the Russian Academy of Sciences, Xinhua reported. Speaking at [...]
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Tweet Washington: President Barack Obama Wednesday presented a plan to revitalize the US real estate market that would allow millions of homeowners to refinance their mortgages and take advantage of the current historically low interest rates. Due to the precipitous decline in housing prices in recent years, more than 10 million homeowners now owe the [...]
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Tweet Washington: Amid credible reports that the Pakistan’s spy agency ISI was secretly supporting Taliban insurgents to recover lost ground in Afghanistan, the United States has asked Islamabad to snap those ties and act against terrorist safe havens. Secretary of State Hillary “raised many of these issues when she was in Pakistan last fall,” State [...]
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Tweet Cairo: At least 73 people were killed and up to a 1,000 injured following clashes and a stampede at a football stadium in the Egyptian city of Port Said Wednesday night. Numerous fans rushed to the field after their home team from Port Said, Al-Masry, defeated Al-Ahly, one of Egypt’s top clubs from Cairo, [...]
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Tweet Barcelona: Thirty eight people suspected of organizing fraudulent marriages in Spain as a way of legalizing the immigration status of Dominican women working as prostitutes in the northeastern region of Catalonia have been arrested. Further arrests are not ruled out, police officials said. The investigation began in September 2010 after payments were discovered of [...]
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Tweet Santiago: Chilean police nabbed a man who was transporting in a refrigerated truck 5,200 kg of ice that had been removed from a glacier, the cargo apparently destined for bars and restaurants here in the capital. “It’s the first time that a situation with these characteristics has been reported,” the chief prosecutor in the [...]
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Tweet Washington: Occupy protesters in Washington defied a police deadline and erected a “tent of dreams” around a statue as part of their protest against eviction. The camps at McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza, a couple of blocks from either end of the White House, are the group’s most visible sites after the one in [...]
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