PAKISTAN
Train hits bus, killing 14
A train on Friday crashed into a bus carrying passengers at a railway crossing in the country’s south, killing 14 people and injuring eight others, railway official Tariq Kolachi said. The accident took place near the district of Rohri, about 470km north of Karachi, he said. He said it was unclear who was to blame for the mishap. Kolachi said the passenger train, called the Pakistan Express, was en route to Lahore from Karachi, the capital of Sindh Province. The injured were transported to area hospitals, he said.
UNITED STATES
Two arrested over shooting
Two people were arrested in a fatal shooting at a student housing apartment complex near West Virginia University on Friday morning. Multiple agencies responded to the report of shots fired at the College Park complex at about 4am and police gave the all clear about an hour later, University Police Chief W.P. Chedester said in a statement. The suspects were arrested without incident at a nearby Walmart shortly after the shooting and taken into custody by campus police, Granville Police Chief Craig Corkrean said. Their identities were not released. The victim was identified as Eric James Smith, 21, a sophomore majoring in multidisciplinary studies from Clementon, New Jersey, the university said in a statement.
UNITED STATES
Chinese jailed for trade theft
A Chinese national who admitted stealing trade secrets from a US oil company has been sentenced to two years in federal prison. Hongjin Tan, 36, in November last year pleaded guilty to theft of a trade secret in connection to his work as a scientist at a Phillips 66 research facility in Bartlesville, about 65km north of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tan used a thumb drive to copy hundreds of files containing information about “next-generation battery technologies” for use in the energy industry, prosecutors said. Tan was sentenced on Thursday in Tulsa and also ordered to pay US$150,000 in restitution. In his plea deal, Tan admitted copying and downloading the information without authorization. Assistant Attorney Joel-Lyn McCormick said that prosecutors were unable to determine whether a third party or the Chinese government benefited from the information, the Tulsa World reported.
FRANCE
Station evacuated over fire
Police on Friday evacuated a historic Paris train station after a fire engulfed multiple vehicles and sent a large cloud of black smoke over the neighborhood. The fire was under control by nightfall, but flames could still be seen rising from the street near Gare de Lyon train station, near the banks of the Seine River, police said. At one point, the station’s landmark clock tower was engulfed in smoke. Someone set fire to a scooter during an unauthorized concert near the train station, and the flames quickly spread to other vehicles nearby, a police official said.
LIBYA
Migrants rescued at sea
A commercial ship has rescued 35 Europe-bound migrants off the country’s coast and returned them to the capital, Tripoli, the UN migration agency said. The International Organization for Migration said on Twitter that the migrants, who were intersected on Thursday, were given medical assistance and relief items upon disembarkation. “Saving lives at sea is a moral and legal obligation. It is however unacceptable that migrants continue to be returned to an unsafe port,” it said.
Kouri Richins, a Utah mother who published a children’s book about grief after the death of her husband is to serve a life sentence for his murder without the possibility of parole, a judge ruled on Wednesday. Richins was convicted in March of aggravated murder for lacing a cocktail given to her husband, Eric Richins, with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl at their home near Park City in 2022. A jury also found her guilty of four other felonies, including insurance fraud, forgery and attempted murder for trying to poison her husband weeks earlier on Feb. 14, 2022, with a
‘GROSS NEGLIGENCE?’ Despite a spleen typically being significantly smaller than a liver, the surgeon said he believed Bryan’s spleen was ‘double the size of what is normal’ A Florida surgeon who is facing criminal charges after allegedly removing a patient’s liver instead of his spleen has said he is “forever traumatized” by that person’s death. In a deposition from November last year that was recently obtained by NBC, 44-year-old Thomas Shaknovsky described the death of 70-year-old William Bryan as an “incredibly unfortunate event that I regret deeply.” Bryan died after the botched surgery; and last month, a grand jury in Tallahassee indicted Shaknovsky on a charge of manslaughter. “I’m forever traumatized by it and hurt by it,” Shaknovsky added, also saying that wrong-site surgeries can happen “during
‘PERSONAL MISTAKES’: Eileen Wang has agreed to plead guilty to the felony, which comes with a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison A southern California mayor has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government and has resigned from her city position, officials said on Monday. Eileen Wang (王愛琳), mayor of Arcadia, was charged last month with one count of acting in the US as an illegal agent of a foreign government. She was accused of doing the bidding of Chinese officials, such as sharing articles favorable to Beijing, without prior notification to the US government as required by law. The 58-year-old was elected in November 2022 to a five-person city council, from which the mayor is selected
DELA ROSA CASE: The whereabouts of the senator, who is wanted by the ICC, was unclear, while President Marcos faces a political test over the senate situation Philippine authorities yesterday were seeking confirmation of reports that a top politician wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) had fled, a day after gunfire rang out at the Philippine Senate where he had taken refuge fearing his arrest. Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, the former national police chief and top enforcer of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs,” has been under Senate protection and is wanted for crimes against humanity, the same charges Duterte is accused of. “Several sources confirmed that the senator, Senator Bato, is no longer in the Senate premises, but we are still getting confirmation,” Presidential
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