17 h. ago Famed streetcar in Portugal’s capital Lisbon derails and crashes, killing 15

A picturesque electric streetcar that is one of Lisbon’s big tourist attractions derailed and crashed on Wednesday, killing 15 people and injuring 18 others, emergency services said. Five of the injured were in serious condition and a child was among the injured, Portugal’s National Institute for Medical Emergencies said in a statement, adding that an unknown number of foreigners were among the injured. Authorities called it an accident, the worst in the city’s recent history, and it cast a pall...

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17 h. ago Famed tram in Portugal’s capital Lisbon derails and crashes, killing 17

The death toll in the Lisbon tram crash has risen to 17, an emergency services official said on Thursday. Two of the injured died overnight in a hospital, Margarida Castro Martins, head of Lisbon’s Civil Protection Agency, told reporters. She did not provide the names or nationalities of the dead, saying that their families would be informed first. Another 21 people were injured in Wednesday’s crash, including multiple foreigners who were on the tram popular with tourists, she said. Portugal...

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4 d. ago How China could turn Paracels into a submarine kill zone in South China Sea

Four years after the USS Connecticut, one of the most advanced nuclear submarines in the US Navy, slammed into an uncharted seamount in the South China Sea, the site of that near-catastrophic grounding may now become a deadly minefield for future naval battles. Chinese military scientists are proposing to transform the dangerous underwater terrain where the Connecticut crashed into a strategically engineered kill zone, packed with powerful mines designed to exploit the very same acoustic blind...

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1 week ago Columbia student Xie Hongzhuo from Beijing among 5 killed in NY tour bus crash

All five people killed in a tour bus crash in upstate New York on Friday afternoon have been identified, authorities said on Saturday. The victims include a Columbia University student, three New Jersey residents and one Indian national, according to New York State Police. They were identified as Xie Hongzhuo, a 22-year-old Columbia student originally from Beijing; Pinki Changrani, 60, of East Brunswick, New Jersey; Zhang Xiaolan, 55, and Jian Mingli, 56, both from Jersey City; and Shankar Kumar...

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1 week ago 5 dead as bus full of Asian tourists crashes on way back from Niagara Falls

A tour bus returning to New York from Niagara Falls with 54 people aboard crashed and rolled on its side on Friday on an interstate highway, killing five passengers and injuring many others, authorities said. The driver apparently became distracted, lost control and overcorrected before the bus went into the right shoulder and flipped over shortly before 12.30pm on the eastbound side of Interstate 90 in Pembroke, New York, about 40km (25 miles) east of Buffalo, state police Major Andre Ray said...

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1 week ago US stops visas for truck drivers after crash involving Indian man kills 3

President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday abruptly stopped issuing US visas for truck drivers after a fatal crash drew national attention, its latest sweeping step against foreign visitors. “Effective immediately we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote on social media. “The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on US roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the...

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2 w. ago 79 killed as bus carrying Afghans from Iran crashes and catches fire

An overcrowded bus carrying Afghans expelled from Iran crashed in western Afghanistan, and at least 79 people were killed, authorities said on Wednesday. The crash on the Herat-Kabul highway involved a motorcycle, a truck and a bus late on Tuesday, said Ahmdullah Muttaqi, head of the information department for Herat’s provincial government. The bus was carrying Afghan refugees expelled from Iran, part of an exodus of hundreds of thousands of people, who were on their way from the border to...

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4 w. ago Philippine consulate in Hong Kong helping family of man killed in taxi crash

The Philippine consulate in Hong Kong has offered help to the family of a Filipino tourist who was killed when an 80-year-old taxi driver crashed his vehicle into a hotel wall, as a lawmaker renewed calls for tightening health requirements for elderly cabbies. In an email to the Post on Wednesday, Philippine vice-consul George Mariano Soriano said his office was assisting the family of the 35-year-old tourist and “anticipating their arrival in Hong Kong soon to arrange the shipment of...

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4 w. ago Philippine consulate in Hong Kong helping family of tourist killed in taxi crash

The Philippine consulate in Hong Kong is helping the family of a Filipino tourist who was killed when an 80-year-old taxi driver crashed his vehicle into a hotel wall, as lawmakers renewed calls for elderly cabbies to face stricter health requirements. In an email to the Post on Wednesday, Philippine vice-consul George Mariano Soriano said his office was assisting the family of the 35-year-old tourist and “anticipating their arrival in Hong Kong soon to arrange the shipment of [his]...

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last month Elderly Hong Kong cabby arrested after crashing into taxi rank, killing tourist

Hong Kong police have arrested an 80-year-old cabby who said he felt dizzy before he crashed his vehicle into a hotel taxi rank, killing a tourist from the Philippines. Police received a report at 1.52pm that a man had been struck by a taxi that veered onto the pavement at 8 Yeung Uk Road in Tsuen Wan, the site of the Nina Hotel. The victim was left unconscious and emergency services rushed him to Princess Margaret Hospital, where he was certified dead at 3.12pm. A source said the 35-year-old...

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