One dies as strong wind hits Poland
WARSAW, Oct 02: One person died and 18 others have been wounded across Poland following strong wind which hit Poland on Monday, a spokesman for the Polish firefighters' service told media on Tuesday. The firefighters had to intervene over 6,000 times in relation to strong wind or water flooding basements, the spokesman said. The most affected were the regions of Wielkopolska, Lodz and Mazowsze in central and southern Poland. —Xinhua
Peru bus plunge leaves 17 dead
LIMA, Oct 02: At least 17 people were killed and some 30 injured when a passenger bus plunged off a cliff on Tuesday in the mountainous Cusco region of Peru, local police said. Police are trying to determine why the bus driver sent the vehicle off the road and into a 100-meter deep ravine. — AFP
'Ocean Cleanup' ship sweeps
first Pacific plastic
ROTTERDAM, Oct 02: A special ship designed to clean the oceans has harvested its first plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch since setting sail from San Francisco last month, its Dutch inventor said on Wednesday. The project by The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch non-profit group, involves a supply ship towing a floating boom that corrals marine plastic with the aim of cleaning half of the infamous patch within five years. —AFP
Hearing in Netanyahu's
corruption cases begins
JERUSALEM, Oct 02: Israeli Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit opened on Wednesday a series of pre-indictment hearings to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ahead of possible criminal indictments over corruptions, according to Department of Justice. Netanyahu will not attend the hearings and will be represented by a team of about ten of Israel's top lawyers. Upon arriving at the Justice Ministry, where the hearings are being held, Ram Caspi, one of Netanyahu's lawyers, told journalists that he has "absolute confidence in the legal system." — Xinhua
Taliban co-founder heads to Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Oct 02: Taliban co-founder Mullah Baradar was due in Pakistan Wednesday to hold talks with officials, the militant group's spokesman said, as unconfirmed reports suggested US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad was already in Islamabad. If so, it could provide the first known opportunity for the two to meet since US President Donald Trump last month abruptly scuttled talks with the Taliban that were seeking a way for Washington to exit its longest war. — AFP
Five IS militants killed in Afghanistan
JALALABAD, Oct 02: At least five Islamic State (IS) militants have been killed in NATO-led coalition drone strikes in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, the provincial government said on Wednesday. "The coalition pilotless planes fired missiles on two militants' compounds in Wazir Tangai locality of Khogyani district on Tuesday, killing five IS militants," the government said in a statement. —Xinhua
Four bodies found in Taiwan bridge collapse
TAIPEI, Oct 02: Searchers have recovered four bodies and are looking for two people missing from three fishing boats that were struck when a bridge collapsed in Taiwan. The National Fire Agency on Wednesday identified two of the victims as Indonesian and another as Filipino. — AP
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