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Cruise ship captain bailed in Hungary after fatal accident
Twenty-six Koreans and two Hungarian crew died after the Mermaid tourist boat capsized and sank in seconds – the worst disaster on the river in half a century. (AFP pic)BUDAPEST: The captain of a cruise liner was released on bail on Wednesday, two weeks after his vessel was involved in a collision with a tourist boat that sank on the River Danube...
More bodies found as Hungary lifts sunken tourist boat from river
Police at the site were removing bodies from the vessel. (AFP pic)BUDAPEST: Hungarian police recovered more bodies on Tuesday after raising a sightseeing boat that sank in the river Danube in Budapest last month, an accident that has claimed at least 24 lives. Police removed four bodies from the Mermaid tourist boat. Another four people are still...
Moldova acting president Pavel Filip calls for snap election
Moldova’s Pavel Filip will be acting president after the suspension of pro-Russia president Igor Dodon. (AFP pic)CHISINAU: Moldova’s acting president Pavel Filip on Sunday dissolved parliament and called snap elections, as a political crisis rocks the ex-Soviet country. Filip signed a decree dissolving parliament and calling snap...
Budapest cruise captain already under probe over earlier accident
The Ukrainian captain is reportedly feeling remorse over last week’s Danube riverboat casualties. (AFP pic)BUDAPEST: The captain of a Budapest river cruise ship involved in a deadly collision with a sightseeing boat last week is already under investigation over another accident in April, Hungarian prosecutors said Thursday. The death toll...
Captain of vessel in Danube boat collision had previous accident
The Ukrainian captain is reportedly feeling remorse over last week’s Danube river boat casualties. (AFP pic)BUDAPEST: The Ukrainian captain of a cruise liner involved in a fatal collision with a pleasure boat on the Danube River in Budapest last week had captained a boat in the Netherlands that was in an accident there in April, Hungarian...
Xi Jinping in Russia to usher ‘new era’ of friendship
Xi will have talks in the Kremlin with President Vladimir Putin, before heading to Russia’s former imperial capital Saint Petersburg to attend the Economic Forum hosted by Putin on Thursday and Friday. (AFP pic)CHINA: Chinese President Xi Jinping headed for Russia Wednesday to mark a new era of friendship and reinforce economic ties that...
Ukraine’s new leader asks Europe to pressure Russia to end war
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky wants Russia to end the war in Crimea. (AFP pic)BRUSSELS: Ukraine’s new President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to press Europe to step up pressure on Russia to end the war in his country’s east, as he arrived in Brussels Tuesday for his first foreign trip as leader. The former comedian who...
South Korea could start returning bodies from Budapest boat disaster
A rescue boat searches for victims after a tourist boat crashed with a river cruise boat, in River Danube in Budapest. (AFP pic)BUDAPEST: The South Korean government expects to begin returning to Seoul the remains of some of the victims who died when a tourist boat sank last week in Budapest, an official said on Tuesday, as conditions for...
Wife of Israeli president dies at 73
The death of Israel’s first lady Nehama Rivlin drew expressions of grief from across the political spectrum. (AFP pic)JERUSALEM: The wife of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, Nehama Rivlin, died on Tuesday at 73 a few months after a lung transplant, the president’s office said. Rivlin, whose formal title was Israel’s first lady,...
Nipah virus resurfaces in India’s Kerala after killing 17 last year
Indians standing in a queue outside a hospital wear masks as a precautionary measure against the Nipah virus in Kozhikode, Kerala, India. (AP pic)NEW DELHI: The deadly brain-damaging Nipah virus has resurfaced in the southern Indian state of Kerala a year after it killed 17 people, state officials said on Tuesday. A 23-year-old student tested...
