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अफगानिस्तान में हवाई हमलों में 21 की मौत

काबुल : अफगानिस्तान के दक्षिणी हेलमंद प्रांत में हवाई हमलों में महिलाओं और बच्चों समेत 21 नागरिकों की मौत हो गयी। हेलमंद प्रांत से सांसद मोहम्मद हाशिम अल्कोजई ने रविवार को बताया कि एक हमले में 13 नागरिकों और दूसरे हमले में आठ नागरिकों की मौत हो गयी।

दोनों हवाई हमले संगिन जिले में शुक्रवार देर रात उस समय किये गये, जब नाटो के समर्थन वाले अफगान बलों और तालिबान के बीच तीव्र मुठभेड़ चल रही थी। अल्कोजई…

चीन: शानक्सी प्रांत में कोयला खदान दुर्घटना में 21 की मौत

बेजिंग : राज्य के मीडिया ने रविवार को बताया कि उत्तर पश्चिमी चीन में एक कोयला खदान में एक छत के गिरने से इक्कीस श्रमिकों की मौत हो गई।समाचार एजेंसी सिन्हुआ की रिपोर्ट के अनुसार, शनिवार दोपहर दुर्घटना के समय शानक्सी प्रांत के लिजियागौ कोयला खदान में अस्सी-सात लोग भूमिगत काम कर रहे थे।

प्रारंभिक रिपोर्टों में कहा गया है कि 19 लोग मारे गए जबकि 66 अन्य सुरक्षा के लिए एयरलिफ्ट किए गए। रिपोर्ट में कहा…

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HARARE, Zimbabwe | Cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe's capital escalates; 21 dead

HARARE, Zimbabwe— Zimbabwe’s police said Wednesday that they are banning “public gatherings” in Harare in an effort to curb a cholera outbreak that has killed 21 people.

Police spokeswoman Charity Charamba said in a statement Wednesday that the ban aims to alleviate “the continuous spread” of cholera in the capital, where the government has declared an emergency.

Zimbabwean law broadly defines a public gathering as “a public meeting or a public demonstration.”

Health Minister Obadiah Moyo said Wednesday that the number of infections has risen to 3,067, up from just over 2,000 that were reported Tuesday.

Recent deaths include a school headmaster and two schoolchildren in Glen View, a poor suburb that has been identified as one of the epicenters of the outbreak. Moyo said a school in the suburb has been closed.

More than 4,000 people died in a cholera outbreak at the height of the southern African country’s economic problems in 2008. Since then, water and sanitation infrastructure has been collapsing.

The government has adequate stocks of medicine and is taking steps “to ensure that we do not go back to the 2008 situation,” Moyo said.

Residents in some Harare suburbs have gone for months without tap water, forcing them to dig shallow wells and boreholes that have been contaminated by raw sewage flowing from burst pipes.

There are also many street vendors whose food items, including meat, are sold in the streets near open sewers.

“It is essential that vending stops … and police are coming in to help with that,” said Moyo.

Cholera is caused by ingestion of contaminated food or water and can kill within hours if untreated.

The ban on public gatherings comes as opposition leader Nelson Chamisa was planning a rally to conduct a mock inauguration ceremony, claiming he was cheated out of victory in elections held in July.

Chamisa visited some victims of the cholera outbreak on Wednesday.

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PHUKET, Thailand | 21 dead, dozens missing as tourist boat sinks in Thailand

PHUKET, Thailand— Divers scoured the wreckage Friday of a boat with Chinese tourists that sank in a storm off Thailand’s southern resort island of Phuket, as the death toll rose to 21 with about 35 others missing, officials said.

Nine bodies of Chinese tourists were being brought to Phuket, where authorities had already confirmed the death of another Chinese man. The nationalities of the others killed were not immediately known.

Some of the bodies were found by divers who entered the wreck Friday and others were floating in the water, said navy official Narong Aurabhakdi.

The boat was carrying 105 people, including 93 tourists, 11 crew and one tour guide when it toppled in 5-meter (16-foot) -high waves on Thursday evening. At least 12 of the injured were hospitalized.

Another boat also overturned off Phuket on Thursday afternoon, but all 42 on board were rescued.

The accidents came as rescuers, also led by Thai navy divers, struggle to extract 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in the country’s far north, where they’ve been trapped since June 23.

Jin Yilin, consul-general of the Chinese Embassy in Thailand, said a delegation from the Chinese Foreign Ministry is on the way to Thailand.

Images on Thursday showed rescued people in large rubber life rafts, with fishing boats and churning seas in the background. The survivors were shown being lifted from the rafts and sitting in life jackets amid ropes on the deck of what appears to be a fishing trawler.

As the seas calmed Friday, divers were transporting the bodies of the dead, including at least one child, from smaller boats to a larger ship taking part in the search effort.

Severe weather including heavy rain and winds were forecast until Tuesday. Phuket Gov. Norraphat Plodthong said officials would consider whether to ban boats from going to sea during strong winds.

Thai PBS television reported late Thursday that weather had forced 12 boats with 263 passengers in all to stay docked at Racha island, a popular diving spot about an hour’s boat ride from Phuket.

They said they were providing food, shelter and water to the people, and if the weather did not clear, larger boats belonging to the navy would be sent to retrieve them.

The Thai incidents came after an overloaded boat carrying illegal Indonesian immigrants capsized in bad weather off Malaysia’s southern Johor state late Sunday, killing 10 and leaving nine missing.

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At least 21 dead in Indian bus accident