CHINA
Landslide buries workers
More than a dozen workers remained missing yesterday after a landslide in Sichuan Province’s Ganluo County buried a section of railway that was under repair, according to state media. The 17 missing people were carrying out maintenance work on the track on Wednesday when the hill above them gave way, China Daily reported. The landslide happened very quickly, a witness told the newspaper. “I spotted a strange movement on the mountain slope after a truck passed, and I shouted, telling everyone to run away,” said Chen Kun, an official from the China Railway Chengdu Group. “The rocks and mud fell within two or three seconds ... while we were running, we could feel rocks chasing us,” Chen told China Daily.
DENMARK
Danes baffled by Trump
About two weeks before US President Donald Trump heads to Copenhagen for his first state visit there, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump has asked his White House counsel to explore the idea of purchasing Greenland, which forms a key part of Denmark. The report has left Danes bewildered. Trump’s idea “must be an April Fool’s Day joke,” albeit out of season, tweeted Lars Lokke Rasmussen, who was prime minister until June and now heads the opposition. Another prominent opposition member said the report indicates that Trump is “insane.”
UNITED STATES
Ohio shooter was inebriated
The gunman who killed nine people outside a bar in Dayton, Ohio, had cocaine, Xanax and alcohol in his system at the time of the shooting rampage, the county coroner said on Thursday. Dayton police announced the findings at a news conference and on Twitter and said that two victims of the massacre were struck by gunfire from law enforcement officers responding to the scene. “While it weighs heavily on us that our response caused harm to these victims, we are comforted that none of our rounds caused the death of any of these innocent people,” Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl said on Twitter.
UNITED STATES
Truck drives into protesters
Rhode Island’s attorney general and state police launched investigations on Thursday after a truck drove through a group protesting federal immigration policies at a detention center, which has since placed an employee on leave. At least two people were injured, one seriously, on Wednesday night outside the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, which is used by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Jewish youth movement Never Again Action said that Jerry Belair, 64, of Warren, suffered a broken leg and internal bleeding. It did not identify the other person.
ROCKY RELATIONS: The figures on residents come as Chinese tourist numbers drop following Beijing’s warnings to avoid traveling to Japan The number of Chinese residents in Japan has continued to rise, even as ties between the two countries have become increasingly fractious, data released on Friday showed. As of the end of December last year, the number of Chinese residents had increased by 6.5 percent from the previous year to 930,428. Chinese people accounted for 22.6 percent of all foreign residents in Japan, making them by far the largest group, Japanese Ministry of Justice data showed. Beijing has criticized Tokyo in increasingly strident terms since Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi last year suggested that a military conflict around Taiwan could
A pro-Iran hacking group claimed to breach FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal e-mail inbox and posted some of the contents online. The e-mails provided by the hacking group include travel details, correspondence with leasing agents in Washington and global entry, and loyalty account numbers. The e-mail address the hackers claim to have compromised has been previously tied to Patel’s personal details, and the leaked e-mails contain photos of Patel and others, in addition to correspondence with family members and colleagues. “The FBI is aware of malicious actors targeting Director Patel’s personal email information,” the agency said in a statement on
RIVALRY: ‘We know that these are merely symbolic investigations initiated by China, which is in fact the world’s most profligate disrupter of supply chains,’ a US official said China has started a pair of investigations into US trade practices, retaliating against similar probes by US President Donald Trump’s administration as the superpowers stake out positions before an expected presidential summit in May. The move, announced by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce on Friday, is a direct mirror of steps Trump took to revive his tariff agenda after the US Supreme Court last month struck down some of his duties. “China expresses its strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to these actions,” a ministry spokesperson said in a statement, referring to the so-called Section 301 investigations initiated on March 11.
When a hiker fell from a 55m waterfall in wild New Zealand bush, rescuers were forced to evacuate the badly hurt woman without her dog, which could not be found. After strangers raised thousands of dollars for a search, border collie Molly was flown to safety by a helicopter pilot who was determined to reunite the pet and the owner. A week earlier, an emergency rescue helicopter found the woman with bruises and lacerations after a fall at a rocky spot at the waterfall on the South Island’s West Coast. She was airlifted on March 24, but they were forced to
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