Egypt train crash kills 11 people north of Cairo, injures 98
19 Apr, 2021 02:11 AM
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The crash in Banha, Qalyubia province, is the latest of several rail accidents to hit Egypt in recent years. Photo / AP
The crash in Banha, Qalyubia province, is the latest of several rail accidents to hit Egypt in recent years. Photo / AP
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By: Samy Magdy
A passenger train derailed north of Cairo, killing at least 11 people, Egyptian authorities said earlier today. It was the latest of several rail accidents to hit the country in recent years.
Four train wagons ran off the railway at the city of Banha in Qalyubia province, just outside Cairo, the railway authority said in a statement on Sunday local time. Videos on social media showed wagons overturned and passengers escaping to safety along the railway.
By Wayne Allyn Root
Back in 2014 I wrote a book titled, The Murder of the Middle Class. Dont look now, but its happening.
Back then I was referring primarily to the murder of middle-class jobs and the American Dream. Today its literally murder. Democrats appear to want the middle class eliminated. Theyre not just after our jobs, theyre playing Russian Roulette with our lives.
If you think Im kidding, or being sarcastic, think again. Im dead serious (excuse the pun). Biden, or more likely the real decision-makers behind a man that resembles a brain-dead puppet, really do appear to be carrying out the murder of the middle class.
Covid-19 coronavirus: First commercial flight to land in Queenstown in 387 days
18 Apr, 2021 08:18 PM
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Otago Daily Times
Scheduled international passenger flights to the southern South Island resume today with a single flight from Sydney to Queenstown.
Qantas QF121 is scheduled to land at Queenstown Airport at 2.30pm, 387 days since the last commercial passenger flight landed in the resort.
That flight had only a single passenger, but the Airbus A320 arriving today is expected to be carrying more than 100 people.
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The aircraft will take off for Sydney an hour later.
With quarantine-free travel between New Zealand and Australia able to start at 11.59pm yesterday, today s flight is a milestone in the southern region s recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi leaves for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) today (Saturday).
This would be Qureshi’s first official visit to the Emirates in the backdrop of confirmation by the Emirati Ambassador to the US Yousef al-Otaiba, who said Pakistani and Indian officials had travelled to Dubai for backdoor negotiations. Sources told The News that Qureshi was also expected to travel to Tehran and Turkey.
Meanwhile, earlier when the Foreign Office spokesman Zahid Hafiz Chaudhry was asked at the weekly media briefing about Ambassador Otaiba’s statement, We wish to get their bilateral ties back to a healthy, functional relationship,” he responded positively. So far, India has made no official comment on Otaiba’s statement. It is expected that apart from focusing on follow-up of the last meeting between Pakistani and Indian officials in Dubai, Qureshi will also raise the issue of visas for Pakistanis, which have been stopped by the UAE.