MEXICO CITY — A thunderous crash shattered the night of May 3 in Mexico City. An overpass on the subway’s Line 12 had collapsed between the Tezonco and Olivos stations. Three months later, Mexico City’s government faces a challenging scenario: Mexicans demand explanations and the authorities lack credibility. The ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) lost several municipalities in the election a month later. Meanwhile, the victims are still trying to heal. Jesús Baños García used to live a few blocks from the accident. After spending the weekend with his family, he left his seven-year-old daughter with her mother and went to his…
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MUMBAI, India — While India celebrated the Indian men’s field hockey team’s bronze medal win at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics, the Bollywood fraternity, including actors Shah Rukh Khan and Akshay Kumar, were among the first to laud captain Manpreet Singh and his team. It is the first time after 1980 that the Indian men’s hockey team has won a medal in field hockey in Olympics. Khan took to his Twitter handle and shared a post lauding the men’s hockey team for their efforts and win. “Wow!! Indian Men’s Hockey Team Congratulations. Resilience and skill at its peak. What an exciting match (sic),” said…
U.S. federal data on petroleum and refined product levels show the world’s leading economy still has a sizable appetite for fuels, though that situation might not last, analysts told Zenger. The U.S. Energy Information Administration publishes weekly data on storage levels of commercial crude oil and refined products such as gasoline. Broad-based gains in inventory levels are usually indicative of lackluster demand, and vice versa. The federal agency reported that total commercial crude oil inventories increased 3.6 million barrels during the week ending July 30. (U.S. Energy Information Administration)That would normally send alarm bells sounding on the desks of commodities…
Five fluffy flamingo chicks explore their surroundings with their parents after hatching at a Russian zoo. The chicks were born in the Moscow Zoo after a period of incubation to protect them from being damaged by the often-boisterous flock. The zoo stated that fights between flamingos often occur during the nesting process and eggs can sometimes be damaged or knocked out of the nest. “Our zoologists keep a close eye on the flamingos during the entire nesting process. They place the laid eggs in incubators, and in the aviary replace them with dummy eggs filled with sand. After hatching, the…
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A mango tree alongside a sleepy street in the Morazán department of El Salvador marks the spot where dozens of Maria del Rosario’s family members are buried in mass graves. They were mutilated and killed in the country’s civil war 41 years ago. “Some we never found,” she said, staring at time-weathered photos taped to the wall of her cement home. The brutal civil war lasted 12 years, claiming 75,000 lives and displacing 300,000. Del Rosario, 77, and many others are still waiting for justice and accountability. Memorial of the war in El Mozote. Most of…
NEW DELHI — Bollywood filmmaker Hansal Mehta on Aug. 4, 2021, announced his next directorial feature titled “Faraaz,” a taut action-thriller depicting the Holey Artisan café attack that shook Bangladesh in July 2016. The film is produced by Bhushan Kumar’s T-Series, Anubhav Sinha’s Benaras Mediaworks, and Mahana Films — Sahil Saigal, Sakshi Bhatt, and Mazahir Mandasaurwala. This collaboration between Mehta, Sinha, and Kumar chronicles the events that took place on the night of July 1, 2016, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where five young militants ravaged the upscale café holding several people as hostages for nearly 12 dreadful hours. The attack killed 22 people. Mehta shared the…
NEW DELHI — Several members from the Hindi film industry expressed anger on social media over the recent gang rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl in Delhi, India. Actor Swara Bhasker, known for her films like “Raanjhanaa” and “Veere Di Wedding,” took to her Twitter handle to condemn the recent brutal incident. “A 9-year-old child has been raped, murdered, and the corpse forcibly cremated! She is a Dalit. The rapist was a priest… in the national capital. Is there a more obvious and sickening manifestation of crime, inequality, and lawlessness?! Am I missing the 2012 Dec outrage?!? (sic),” she tweeted. Actor Sushant…
NEW DELHI — The Indian government is considering resuming international flights immediately to low-risk cities and countries where Covid-outbreaks are under control. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on transport, tourism, and culture suggested to re-start the scheduled international flights on Aug. 4. The committee is advocating for re-starting the scheduled international flights, T.G. Venkatesh, Chairman of Parliamentary Committee for Transport, Tourism, and Culture, said on Aug. 4. “We have told officials and Ministry (of Tourism) in interactive meetings that we should allow international flights immediately to places wherever Covid cases are low and where there are islands and safe zones. Tourism dept should…
NEW DELHI — Long-term exposure to particulate air pollution is associated with a substantially higher risk of dementia, an extensive study of data collected over several decades has found. Using data from two large, long-running study projects in the Puget Sound region—one that began in the late 1970s measuring air pollution and another on risk factors for dementia that started in 1994—University of Washington researchers identified a link between air pollution and dementia. The findings of the research were published in the “Environmental Health Perspectives” journal. In the University of Washington-led study, a small increase in the levels of fine particle pollution (PM2.5…
NEW DELHI — Seven people stranded in the middle of a flood were air-evacuated off the roof of a temple in Datia district of Madhya Pradesh on Aug. 4, after an overflowing Sind river left tens of civilians across four districts waiting for rescue. By the end of the day, a total of 46 people were evacuated. “In a rescue mission by an Indian Air Force helicopter, seven people stranded on the roof of a temple near Seondha, cut off due (to) flooding of Sind river, were evacuated. By the close of the day, 46 stranded people were evacuated,” tweeted the Indian Air Force.…