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Rescue teams in Nepal on Saturday searched  for 51 passengers and crew who went missing after a landslide a day prior swept two buses into a river swollen by relentless rainfall. Officials said that chances of finding any survivors were diminishing as search efforts press on. “Chances of finding survivors are slim because over 30 hours have passed since the buses were swept into the river. The water level has receded this morning, but it is still very murky,” Khimananda Bhusal, deputy chief administrator of the district, told Reuters news agency. Divers had only found a curtain from one of the bus windows and…

North Korea has decried a declaration recently signed by NATO members which condemned Pyongyang’s weapons exports to Russia, state media said on Saturday. The secluded country which has grown its military relations with Russia over the last several years, called the document “illegal.” The North Korean state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that the foreign ministry “most strongly denounces and rejects” the NATO declaration. The agency, citing a ministry spokesperson, said the declaration “incites new Cold War and military confrontation on a global scale,” and requires “a new force and mode of counteraction.” Ukraine on ‘irreversible’ path to joining NATOTo view…

President Joe Biden has insisted “I am running and we’re going to win” during a boisterous performance at a rally in Detroit.The 81-year-old is trying to shift the conversation from his mental sharpness after a shaky debate performance and two high-profile gaffes at the NATO summit. “I’m the nominee,” he said. “I’m not going anywhere.”It’s time for us to stop treating politics like it’s entertainment or a reality TV show.”And to wild cheers, he shouted: “Donald Trump is a loser!” Mr Biden also warned Project 2025, a conservative policy platform that would seek to slash the federal government if Donald…

An Ecuadorian court on Friday handed down hefty prison sentences ranging from 12 years to 34 years for five people found guilty of murdering presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. The journalist and former legislator was fatally shot while leaving a rally in August 2023. This made him one of the most prominent victims of Ecuador’s uncontrolled violence. Six Colombian men were arrested hours after the shooting, but all of them were killed while in prison two months later. Another seven suspects were later arrested, one of whom died and another who was acquitted. The remaining five went on trial.Ecuador declares state…

Twenty-two pupils have been killed after a two-storey school collapsed in Nigeria.The Saints Academy college in the north-central Plateau state’s Busa Buji community collapsed shortly after pupils, many of whom were 15 years old or younger, arrived for classes. A total of 154 pupils were trapped with 132 rescued and treated for injuries in various hospitals, a police spokesman said.Twenty-two pupils were killed. Image: A student is rescued from the rubble. Pic: AP Rescue and health workers as well as security forces had been deployed at the scene, according to aid Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency. “To ensure prompt medical…

Five people convicted of murdering presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in Ecuador have been jailed.The journalist and former legislator was shot as he left a rally in August 2023, becoming the most prominent victim of the South American country’s spiralling violence. According to the attorney general’s office, Carlos Edwin Angulo Lara, known as The Invisible, gave the order to murder Villavicencio from prison, while Laura Dayanara Castillo was in charge of logistics.Both Angulo and Castillo were sentenced to 34 years and eight months.Erick Ramirez, Victor Flores and Alexandra Chimbo were sentenced to 12 years. The ruling, read out by Judge Milton…

Prosecutors in Argentina on Friday formally charged two French international rugby players with aggravated rape. The alleged incident occurred after a night out following a match between France and Argentina last Sunday in Mendoza. The prosecutor’s office in the city in Argentina’s Cuyo region ordered the two players to remain in detention until trial. After being arrested in the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires, the accused were transferred some 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) to Mendoza on Thursday for their first appearance in court. The pair chose not to testify in Friday’s hearing. The French Rugby Federation had previously said that the accused — Hugo Auradou, 20, and Oscar Jegou, 21 —  admitted…

Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s son got married on Friday, marking the culmination of a wedding extravaganza  that lasted nearly seven months and brought into focus the staggering wealth and influence of the richest man in Asia. Anant Ambani — the youngest son of the tycoon — got engaged to Radhika Merchant — the daughter of pharmaceutical magnate Viren Merchant — in December last year. The couple wed in a Hindu ceremony at the Ambani-owned Jio World Convention Centre in the Indian financial capital of Mumbai. Mukesh Ambani is the world’s 11th richest personImage: Reliance Industries/AP/picture alliance Among the guests attending the event were:…

Dozens of bodies have been found in Gaza City, Palestinian rescue workers have said, after Israeli forces reportedly pulled out of parts of two districts following days of bombardment and fighting there.Israel’s military launched an incursion into the Tal al Hawa and Sinaah neighbourhoods earlier this week to fight what it said were Hamas militants who had regrouped.About 60 bodies have been recovered, including entire families who appeared to have been killed by artillery fire and aerial bombardment, Gaza’s civil defence director Mahmoud Basal said.”There are homes that we cannot reach, and there are those who were burned inside their…

Alec Baldwin’s trial for involuntary manslaughter was dismissed Friday. The development came after a judge ruled that key evidence relating to the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of “Rust” had been withheld from the defense. The ruling came on the trial’s fourth day, bringing an abrupt end to a case that had already been dropped once. The judge’s ruling means Baldwin cannot be tried again. The defense accused prosecutors of hiding evidence from them about the ammunition that may be related to the shooting on the set of the Western film in 2021. The defense said they should have been allowed to determine its…