Author: News Desk

India : A suspension bridge in India carrying hundreds of people has collapsed in Gujarat, western India, killing at least 60 people and leading to a scramble to rescue people stranded in the Machchhu river, near the town of Morbi. Ashish Bhatia, Gujarat’s director general of police said The death toll could increase, rescue operations are on and a number of people have been taken to safety, he said. Officials said 400 people were on the structure at the time of the collapse. Video footage from the scene showed what remained of the bridge twisted and embedded in the muddy brown water, with scores of…

Riyadh : Member of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Olympic and Paralympic Committee, Chairman of the Saudi Arabian Federation of Motor and Motorcycle Sports, His Royal Highness Prince Khalid bin Sultan bin Abdulla Al-Faisal, welcomed the First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sport, General Sports Authority Chairman and Bahrain Olympic Committee President, His Highness Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, upon arrival here to participate in the 34th meeting of the presidents of the Olympic committees of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, held here today. HH Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad lauded the warm welcome…

Bahrain :  The Labour Fund (Tamkeen) announced the launch of a new series of entrepreneurship training programs under the name “StartUp Bahrain Pitch”, that focus on the fundamentals of fundraising and pitching to investors with the aim of empowering Bahraini entrepreneurs to secure the funds required to grow their startups. These programs are the result of a Team Bahrain collaboration that includes public and private sector ecosystem champions such as: the Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB), Bahrain Development Bank (BDB), Bahrain Entrepreneurship Organization, and StartUp Bahrain alongside key players from the private sector. The programs were designed in collaboration with…

Port-Au-Prince : The sun shone down on Stanley Joliva as medical staff at an open-air clinic hovered around him, pumping air into his lungs and giving him chest compressions until he died. Nearby, his mother watched. “Only God knows my pain,” said Viliene Enfant. Less than an hour later, the body of her 22-year-old son lay on the floor wrapped in a white plastic bag with the date of his death scrawled on top. He joined dozens of other Haitians who have died from cholera during a rapidly spreading outbreak that is straining the resources of nonprofits and local hospitals…

Washington : A 27-year-old Olympia woman faces a possible charge of vehicular homicide after her wreck led to the death of her seven-year-old passenger, according to Washington State Patrol. The woman also was thought to be driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, according to State Patrol. Trooper Robert Reyer said the driver that caused the Oct. 20 crash was speeding in the eastbound lane of state Route 510 near Red Wind Casino in Nisqually. The woman passed a vehicle across a double yellow line and veered back into the eastbound lane too quickly, he said. She then swerved…

San Francisco : Paul Pelosi, the husband of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was violently assaulted at the their residence in San Francisco early Friday morning after an assailant broke in,  Speaker’s office. Speaker  said in a statement. Pelosi was not in San Francisco at the time, according to her spokesman Drew Hammill. Paul Pelosi was taken to a hospital and is expected to make a “full recovery.” The assailant is in custody, according to Hammill. “Early this morning, an assailant broke into the Pelosi residence in San Francisco and violently assaulted Mr. Pelosi. The assailant is in custody and the…

MANILA : Heavy rains brought by an approaching storm triggered flooding and multiple landslides in the southern Philippines, killing at least 31 people, a senior government official said on Friday, as rescuers searched for missing residents. Authorities have evacuated thousands of people out of the path of tropical storm Nalgae, which could possibly make landfall Friday night in Samar province in central Philippines, disaster officials said. Naguib Sinarimbo, interior minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Mindanao (BARMM), said the rainfall in Maguindanao province had exceeded expectations. “There were preparations made but unfortunately, the rainfall was more than what people had…

Beijing : China’s largest city of Shanghai is ordering mass testing Friday on all 1.3 million residents of its downtown Yangpu district and confining them to their homes at least until results are known. The demand is an echo of measures ordered over the summer that led to a two-month lockdown of the entire city of 25 million that devastated the local economy, prompting food shortages and rare confrontations between residents and the authorities. At the start of the lockdown, authorities said they would last just days but then kept extending the deadline. China has shown no sign of backing…

Berlin :  The German economy grew in the third quarter, an unexpectedly positive performance powered largely by private spending, official figures showed Friday. Gross domestic product in Europe’s biggest economy expanded by 0.3% in the July-September period compared with the previous quarter, the Federal Statistical Office said. That followed a slight increase of 0.1% in the second quarter. “The German economy managed to hold its ground despite difficult framework conditions of the global economy, with the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain interruptions and rising prices,” the statistics office said. The government said earlier this month that GDP was believed to…

Bahrain : Binance, the leading global blockchain services provider, announced today the launch of binance.bh, a new and fully regulated platform where users can access Binance’s full range of products and services – including direct deposits and withdrawals – in local currencies. New customers are able to sign up to the newly regulated platform and get access a range of products and services. Having received its license as a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) Category-4 (Crypto Assets Exchange) on 19 May 2022, the binance.bh platform now allows Binance to provide a full range of crypto-asset exchange services to customers. Commenting…