News of the Day From Around the World
1 Deadly crash: A bus filled with people traveling to their home villages in Nepal to receive the first government payments for victims of last year’s devastating earthquake slid off a narrow mountain road Monday, killing at least 33 people and injuring 28 others, officials said.
2 Earthquake: A magnitude 5.4 earthquake centered in southern Peru’s picturesque Colca Valley killed at least four people, including a 65-year-old U.S. tourist, and injured 52 others as it toppled adobe homes, authorities said Monday.
Health officials said Monday that two patients were in a critical condition and 19 others remained in a local hospital after testing positive for campylobacter bacteria.
Human rights victims of the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ regime petitioned the Supreme Court on Monday to block and nullify a government directive to have the ex-leader buried in a heroes’ cemetery.
The petition said such burial for the “tyrant” and the “plunderer par excellence” is illegal, would flout principles enshrined in the Constitution and violate regulations that outline who is entitled to be interred in the military-run cemetery.
Armed men abducted 10 to 12 presumed members of a crime gang who appeared to be celebrating at an upscale restaurant in the popular Mexican beach resort city of Puerto Vallarta, authorities said Monday.
Jalisco state prosecutor Eduardo Almaguer said all involved — kidnappers and kidnapped — appeared to be members of criminal organizations.