51 dead in Pakistan train collision

More than fifty=one people have been killed and hundreds injured after two passenger trains collided in Sindh province, southern Pakistan where one train travelling in the Sindh province had derailed and landed on another track, where a second overcrowded train then collided with it and overturned. Rescue teams took the injured to nearby hospital and…

Humans can’t digest grass

Financial Times’, chief features writer, Henry Mance, a vegan, would very much like you to be, too. His argument why lies at the centre of How to Love Animals, is challenging and funny. For some it could prompt moral reasons  that those of us who love animals, but also profit from their  suffering cravenly managed…

Boris Johnson marries Carrie Symonds 

Prime Minister Boris Johnson *(56) has married his fiancee Carrie Symonds (33), the first PM to get married while in office in nearly 200 years, at Westminster Cathedral in a secret wedding on Saturday afternoon. The couple would celebrate again with family and friends next summer with their honeymoon delayed until that then. Their son…

Kuala Lumpur Metro crash injured 213, 47 serious

  A Metro train in Kuala Lumpur carrying 213 passengers collided with an empty one in a tunnel near the Petronas Tower and KLCC station, at about 20:45 (12:45GMT). The empty train had just been repaired, and was going in the opposite direction on the same track as the full one. 47 out of 213…

Sasha Johnson in critical condition after gunshot to the head

BLM activist Sasha Johnson was shot in head in Southwark, London in the early hours of Sunday following numerous death threats. Sasha Johnson a prominent member of TTIP, which has been described as “Britain’s first Black-led political party” rose to prominence after last year’s BLM protests spread around the country. Helping to organise marches and…

8, 000 people cross to Rwanda from DR of Congo after volcano eruption

“This morning after lava flows from Nyiragongo volcano eruption, most of Congolese evacuated to Rubavu are returning home/ Rwanda received around 8, 000 people last night”, according to the ministry’s twitter account. Thousands of residents in Goma, a major city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, spent the night outdoors following eruption, according to a…

19 dead, 77 missing at sea as cyclone Tauktae lashes

Nineteen people have already died and seventy seven people are missing after a barge off the coast of the Indian City of Mumbai sank amid Tauktae storm. The Indian Navy said it had rescued 184 of the 261 people aboard. Thirty five people have also been rescued from another of the three other commercial barges…

Lōpez Obrador Meican president apologises to Mayan people

Mexico’s president Andrės Manuel Lōpez Obrador has formally apologised to the indigenous Mayan people for abuses committed against them over the five centuries since the Spanish conquest. He focused on the 1847-1901 Caste War revolt in which around 250, 000 Mayan people are believed to have lost their lives. Mexico is due to hold legislative…