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Spain: At least 13 dead, over 30 injured as bus carrying exchange students crashes
At least 13 people were killed when a bus carrying a large group of foreign university students crashed early on Sunday midway between the Spanish cities of Valencia and Barcelona, authorities in the northeastern region of Catalonia said. Eight of the 43 passengers had also been seriously injured. The students were from at least 19 countries and...
Spain: Highway bus crash kills 13 students, injures over 30
The wreckage of a bus is lifted by a crane after a traffic crash in Freginals, Spain, March 20, 2016. (Source: Reuters) A bus carrying university exchange students back from Spain’s largest fireworks festival crashed Sunday on a main highway in the northeastern, killing at least 13 passengers and injuring 34 others, officials said. The...
Spain student bus crash ‘kills 13’
At least 13 people were killed when a bus carrying a large group of foreign university students crashed early on Sunday midway between the Spanish cities of Valencia and Barcelona, authorities in the northeastern region of Catalonia said. Eight of the 43 passengers had also been seriously injured. The students were from at least 19 countries and...
Risk of nuclear war growing: Russian ex-minister
BRUSSELS: The East-West standoff over the Ukraine crisis has brought the threat of nuclear war in Europe closer than at any time since the 1980s, a former Russian foreign minister warned on Saturday. “The risk of confrontation with the use of nuclear weapons in Europe is higher than in the 1980s,” said Igor Ivanov, Russia’s...
Russia: Black boxes from plane crash site are badly damaged
Mourning: A woman mourns after putting flowers in memory for the victims of the crashed FlyDubai plane at the Rostov-on-Don airport, about 950 kilometers (600 miles) south of Moscow, Russia, Sunday. Emergency workers on Sunday finished combing the debris-laden runway of the airport in southern Russia where the plane carrying 62 people crashed...
Runners from Kenya, Ukraine win Wan Jin Shi marathon in New Taipei
Taipei, March 20 (CNA) The Kenyan runner, William Chebon Chebor, took first place in the men’s division of the 2016 Wan Jin Shi Marathon in New Taipei Sunday, while Ukraine runner Olha Kotovska won the women’s event. …read more Source: Focus...
Investigators probe south Russia flydubai crash that killed 62
ROSTOV-ON-DON: Investigators in southern Russia on Sunday were probing the causes of a flydubai passenger jet crash that killed all 62 people on board, as emergency workers at the site wrapped up the salvage operation. The Boeing 737, which flew from Dubai to the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, exploded into a fireball early Saturday...
FlyDubai plane crash: Aviation experts examine black boxes; workers comb debris-laden site
Russian Police and Emergency Ministry employees investigate the wreckage of a crashed plane at the Rostov-on-Don airport, where FlyDubai budget carrier crashed on Saturday killing all 62 aboard. (Source: AP) Aviation experts on Sunday began examining the black boxes from the FlyDubai flight that crashed amid high winds at an airport in southern...
Investigators probe south Russia flydubai crash that killed 62
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AFP) – Investigators in southern Russia on Sunday were probing the causes of a flydubai passenger jet crash that killed all 62 people on board, as emergency workers at the site wrapped up the salvage operation.The Boeing 737, which flew from Dubai to the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, exploded into a fireball...
Nadiya Savchenko: Ukraine’s lionized and demonized fighter
KIEV: Nadiya Savchenko is both lionized as a fearless Ukrainian freedom fighter — and demonized as the alleged accomplice in the murder of two Russian reporters in her country’s separatist east. The 34-year-old Ukrainian army pilot has most recently featured on global TV screens wearing patriotic T-shirts inside the glass cage of a Russian...
