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TEHRAN: A pickup truck smuggling fuel crashed on Friday into a car carrying 15 Afghans in southeastern Iran, bursting into flames and killing all on board as well as three Iranians, media reported."The crash and resulting fire claimed the lives of 15 Afghans who had entered the country illegally," the state IRNA news agency quoted local official Sadeq Dadollahpour as saying.He attributed the accident to the "excessive speed" of both vehicles.The Mehr news agency said the crash took place in Kerman province on a transit route for Afghans illegally crossing the border in the hope of finding work in the Islamic republic.Nearly a million Afghans live in Iran illegally, according to official figures released in 2012.Iran is one of the world's deadliest countries for road accidents. Around 20,000 people are killed each year in a nation with a little over 17 million vehicles for its 75-million-strong population.Despite the high number ...
WELLINGTON: New Zealand troops began their withdrawal from Afghanistan Friday, with the lowering of the flag for the last time at their base in Bamiyan to mark the end of a 10-year involvement in the war.The government announced the early withdrawal last year, with the New Zealand contingent originally scheduled to remain until September 2014.Ten New Zealand soldiers have died in Afghanistan over the past decade -- eight in Bamiyan and two in Kabul.New Zealand ...
NEW DELHI: India's top court on Tuesday fined British resources giant Vedanta nearly $20 million over pollution from its huge copper smelter, which has just been shut by a new row over a "toxic" gas leak.The court told Sterlite Industries, a unit of London-listed Vedanta Resources, to pay one billion rupees ($18.4) over five years for air pollution from its copper plant -- India's biggest -- in Tamil Nadu state's port city of Tuticorin."Compensation must ...
DHAKA: Pirates in south-eastern Bangladesh are believed to have killed at least 16 fishermen by tying them up and throwing them into the Bay of Bengal to drown, police said Monday.Police said a fishing boat at Kutubdia Island in Cox's Bazaar resort district recovered three bodies after fishermen found them floating in the sea and at least 13 other bodies had been seen."They have recovered three bodies with their hands and feet tied with rope ...
NEW DELHI: The number of foreign women tourists visiting India has dropped by 35 percent in the past three months following a spate of sex attacks that have made global headlines, a new survey has found.The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) says overall tourist arrivals are down 25 percent year-on-year, with holidaymakers opting instead to visit other Asian countries such as Malaysia and Thailand.The fatal gang-rape of a 23-year-old Indian student ...
BEIJING: More than 80 workers were buried when a huge landslide came crashing down a mountainside in Tibet on Friday, Chinese state-run media said.A vast three-kilometre-long section of land, with a volume of two million cubic metres, slid down a slope and buried 83 miners in Maizhokunggar county, east of the Tibetan capital Lhasa, the official Xinhua news agency said.A total of 1,000 police, firefighters and doctors were sent to the disaster site, at an ...
BISHKEK: A Kyrgyz court has sentenced in absentia the once feared son of ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev to 25 years prison on corruption charges, prosecutors said Wednesday, vowing to ensure his extradition from exile in Britain. Maxim Bakiyev, then known as "The Prince", was the head of Kyrgyzstan's development agency but was also seen as one of the closest confidants of his father who was ousted from power in a bloody uprising in 2010. In ...
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