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Activist Alexandra Wong being detained by Hong Kong Police
Hong Kong police detain activists on anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre
HONG KONG — Police in Hong Kong have detained several pro-democracy activists on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.Authorities have banned public commemoration of the 1989 incident, which saw China crush peaceful protests in Beijing with tanks and troops.However, candlelight vigils have been taking place in other cities worldwide.Among those detained was 67-year-old Alexandra Wong, a prominent campaigner nicknamed "Grandma Wong".Amid a tense evening in Hong Kong, she was arrested while carrying flowers near Victoria Park, where vigils had been held for decades.The leader of one of Hong Kong's main opposition parties was among those arrested. Chan Po Ying, a veteran pro-democracy activist who heads the League of Social Democrats party, was holding an LED...
June 05, 2023

Hong Kong police detain activists on anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre

In 2003, Kathleen Folbigg was sentenced to prison on three counts of murder and one of manslaughter.
Australian mother who served 20 years for killing her four babies pardoned
BRISBANE — A woman condemned as Australia’s worst female serial killer has been pardoned after serving 20 years behind bars for killing her four children in what appears to be one of the country’s gravest miscarriages of justice.New South Wales Attorney General Michael Daley intervened to order Kathleen Folbigg be freed, based on the preliminary findings of an inquiry that had found “reasonable doubt” as to her guilt for all four deaths.Daley told a news conference Monday that he had spoken to the governor and recommended an unconditional pardon, which had been granted, and she would be released from Clarence Correctional Center the same day.“This has been a terrible ordeal for everyone concerned and I hope that our actions today can put some closure on this 20-year-old...
June 05, 2023

Australian mother who served 20 years for killing her four babies pardoned

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
Former New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern honored as a dame
WELLINGTON — Former New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern, who stepped down from her post earlier this year, has been made a dame in one of the country’s highest honors.Prime Minister Chris Hipkins announced the appointment on Monday to mark the King’s Birthday public holiday, with Ardern among 182 recipients receiving various honors for their contributions to the country.“Having served as Prime Minister from 2017 to 2023, Dame Jacinda Ardern is recognized for her service to New Zealand during some of the greatest challenges our country has faced in modern times,” Hipkins said in a statement.“Leading New Zealand’s response to the 2019 terrorist attacks and to the Covid-19 pandemic represented periods of intense challenge for our 40th Prime Minister, during which time I saw first...
June 05, 2023

Former New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern honored as a dame

Wounded survivors rescued from a carriage wreckage of a three-train collision near Balasore, sit at the Soro government hospital in Odisha.
India's railway ministry seeks CBI probe into deadly crash
NEW DELHI — India's railway ministry has recommended that the country's top detective agency should investigate the deadly crash that killed 275 people.Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced the decision but did not give more details.Railways-led investigations have already started and preliminary reports say a signal fault led to the crash.The three-train collision on Friday night has been described as India's worst rail accident this century.More than 1,000 suffered injuries and were taken to hospitals. Some families are still searching for their loved ones.It's not clear why the Railway Board, the ministry's top decision-making body, has recommended a separate investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) when other inquiries have already...
June 05, 2023

India's railway ministry seeks CBI probe into deadly crash

India’s railway minister has suggested a signal fault led to the Odisha rail disaster, with a “change in electronic interlocking” the likely cause.
Signal fault the likely cause of India train disaster, minister says
NEW DELHI — India’s railway minister has suggested a signal fault led to the Odisha rail disaster, with a “change in electronic interlocking” the likely cause.Ashwini Vaishnaw later said the cause and people responsible for the deadly three-train crash in eastern India had been identified but did not elaborate.India’s Railway Board said there had been “some kind of signaling interference” rather than failure.A report into India’s worst rail accident this century is due later. Meanwhile the death toll has been revised down to 275 after some bodies were counted twice, officials said.Of the 1,175 injured people taken to hospital, 793 have been discharged. Some families are still searching for their loved ones.In railway signaling the electronic interlocking system sets routes...
June 04, 2023

Signal fault the likely cause of India train disaster, minister says

Passenger trains wait for people to board at the Dhanbad Junction railway station in Jharkhand, northern India. One of the busiest in the region, millions of people pass through this station every year. — courtesy ESCAP Photo/Christian Dohrmann
UN chief deeply saddened by loss of life in India train disaster
NEW YORK — The UN Secretary-General has expressed his deep sadness over the loss of life and injuries sustained during India’s worst rail disaster this century, when three trains collided in the eastern state of Odisha on Friday.Latest news reports said the death toll now stands at 275. More than 1,000 people were hospitalized but close to 800 of those involved in the crash have reportedly been discharged.According to reports, railway officials and India’s minister in charge of the vast network, said on Sunday that a signal fault was the likely cause, which led to a routing error.One of the passenger trains collided with a stationary goods train causing carriages to derail, which in turn struck a second train going in the opposite direction.In a statement issued on Saturday issued by...
June 04, 2023

UN chief deeply saddened by loss of life in India train disaster

Chinese fighter jet flies close to US military plane.
War with US would be unbearable disaster, says China defense minister
SINGAPORE — China’s defense minister has said war with the US would be an “unbearable disaster” for the world in his first major speech since taking on the role.At a security summit, Gen. Li Shangfu said “some countries” were intensifying an arms race in Asia.But he said the world was big enough for both China and the US, and the two superpowers should seek common ground.Earlier the US alleged “unsafe” maneuvers by a Chinese destroyer near a US warship in the Taiwan Strait.On Saturday, the US navy said a Chinese destroyer sailed “in an unsafe manner” near an American warship as it transited the Taiwan Strait with Canadian vessels.China criticized both countries for “deliberately provoking risk”. The US and Canada said they were sailing where international law...
June 04, 2023

War with US would be unbearable disaster, says China defense minister

Drone footage shows the devastation after Friday’s train crash
Indian Premier Modi vows punishments over deadly Odisha crash
NEW DELHI — People found guilty over a deadly rail accident in eastern India will be “punished stringently”, the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said.At least 288 people were killed and more than 800 injured in Friday’s incident in Odisha state, involving two passenger trains and a goods train.Rescue efforts have concluded, with officials saying all trapped and injured passengers have been retrieved.Modi has visited the scene, labelling the incident a “painful” one.He also met victims of the disaster in hospital, and vowed that his government would leave “no stone unturned for the treatment of those injured”.It is still not clear what caused the multi-train collision in Balasore district, which has been described as India’s worst rail accident this century.An...
June 03, 2023

Indian Premier Modi vows punishments over deadly Odisha crash

Military officers celebrate at a parade in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. (file). — courtesy Unsplash/Micha Brändli
UNSC must find unity to calm rising tensions in Korean Peninsula
NEW YORK — The “lack of unity and action” in the Security Council “does little to slow the negative trajectory on the Korean Peninsula”, Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, said on Friday, following Pyongyang’s failed military satellite launch earlier this week.“Key peace and security issues, such as the situation on the Korean Peninsula, must be an area for cooperation,” she cautioned in a briefing to the 15-member Council on recent developments. “Diplomacy — not isolation — is the only way forward.”During the Council’s emergency debate on the issue, members expressed divergent views, with many agreeing that diplomacy can forge a path towards peace, and others raising concerns about what they regard as other...
June 03, 2023

UNSC must find unity to calm rising tensions in Korean Peninsula

Survivors climb from toppled train carriages following the deadly collision in Balasore, India, on June 2.
288 killed, over 1000 injured in India train crash
NEW DELHI — Rescuers in India are scrambling to find survivors after a horrific crash involving three trains killed hundreds of people in one of the worst rail disasters the country has ever seen.At least 288 people have been confirmed dead and more than 1,000 injured following the collision between two passenger trains and a goods train in the city of Balasore, in eastern Odisha state, on Friday.But rescuers expect the death toll to rise further, as many people are thought to be trapped under upturned carriages.“We are not very hopeful of rescuing anyone alive,” Odisha’s Fire Services Chief, Sudhanshu Sarangi, told local news channel NDTV.The cause of the crash remains unclear but Indian Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told reporters Saturday that a “high-level inquiry” has...
June 03, 2023

288 killed, over 1000 injured in India train crash

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