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Seven people, including a six-year-old and 16-year-old, were killed when a bus overturned east of Vicksburg, Mississippi, early Saturday, Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey said. The two young victims were siblings, according to the coroner. The Mississippi Highway Patrol said the incident took place around 12:40 a.m. on Interstate 20 near Bovina in Warren County when a 2018 Volvo commercial passenger bus traveling westbound left the roadway and overturned. Thirty-seven passengers were transported to different hospitals with unknown injuries, the agency said. It said the co-driver was not transported. "Anytime you have people injured or killed, it's tragic but when you have a situation like this where you have multiple fatalities and multiple injuries, it makes it even worse," Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace told an ABC affiliate. Huskey said most of the passengers on the bus were Latin American.   from Latest World News, International News | Breaking World News https:...

A health official said a polio vaccination campaign had begun in Gaza on Saturday after the war-torn territory recorded its first case of the disease in a quarter of a century. Local health officials along with the UN and NGOs “are starting today the polio vaccination campaign in the central region”, Moussa Abed, director of primary health care at the Gaza health ministry, told AFP. The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that Israel had agreed to a series of three-day “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza to facilitate vaccinations, though officials had earlier said the campaign was expected to start on Sunday. After beginning in central Gaza, vaccines are set to be administered in southern Gaza and then in northern Gaza. The campaign, which involves two doses, aims to cover more than 640,000 children under 10. Michael Ryan, WHO deputy director-general, told the UN Security Council this week that 1.26 million doses of the oral vaccine had been delivered in Gaza, with another 400,...

The Israeli government has been accused of purchasing Google ads to discredit the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and discourage donations, according to a statement made by the agency's commissioner-general on Saturday. Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA commissioner-general, took to X (formerly Twitter) to denounce what he described as a "misinformation campaign" by Israel amidst the ongoing conflict in Gaza. "The spread of misinformation and disinformation continues to be used as a weapon in the war in Gaza," Lazzarini stated. He accused the Israeli government of buying Google ads in an effort to block users from donating to the agency and to carry out a defamation campaign against UNRWA. "UNRWA is the largest humanitarian organization responding to the crisis in Gaza," Lazzarini noted, stressing that the campaign not only damages the agency’s reputation but also endangers the lives of its staff. Lazz...

Get A widely ridiculed Japanese government idea to lure Tokyo women into marrying men in rural areas by offering cash payouts and train tickets to matchmaking events has been scrapped, officials said Friday. Bureaucrats had envisioned payments of up to 600,000 yen ($4,140) for women who got married and settled outside of Tokyo as part of efforts to reduce a yawning countryside gender gap, local media reported. Hanako Jimi, minister of state for regional revitalisation, said Friday she had instructed officials to "review" the plan and insisted that reports about the size of payments were "not true." Media leaks about the scheme this week drew scorn on social media, where critics saw it as typical in a country where men dominate politics and other areas, more than in any other major industrialized economy. "Did they think independent, motivated and educated women in the city would think, 'What? If I marry a local man and move to a countryside, I'll get 60...

A civilian Mi-8 helicopter with 22 people on board disappeared in the far eastern Kamchatka region, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviation) reported on Saturday. The missing aircraft, which was carrying tourists, was traveling from the Vachkajec volcano in the southern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula to the village of Nikolayevka further east — a distance of about 25 kilometers (about 15.5 miles), the agency said in a statement. "A search is underway for the Vityaz-Aero Mi-8T helicopter in the Kamchatka territory ... According to preliminary data, there were 22 people on board the helicopter," it said, adding that it was carrying three crew members and 19 passengers. Another aircraft took off in search of the helicopter, with another Mi-8 helicopter and a ground rescue team prepared to head along its route. from Latest World News, International News | Breaking World News https://ift.tt/13qO4CV via IFTTT

Billionaire Elon Musk and his electric vehicle firm Tesla were cleared Friday in a $258 billion Dogecoin class action lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed in 2022, alleged that Musk's comments on Twitter, now known as X and owned by Musk, manipulated Dogecoin's price and harmed cryptocurrency investors. The investors claimed that Musk’s statements, including that Dogecoin might be his favorite currency, the people's crypto, and the future currency of Earth, were misleading. They also cited claims that Dogecoin might become the standard for the global financial system and the currency of the internet, while Musk put a literal Dogecoin in SpaceX and fly it to the moon and that Dogecoin would pay for the mission, and Tesla vehicles could be bought with Dogecoin, according to the court documents. "These statements are aspirational and puffery, not factual and susceptible to being falsified," US District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York wrote in h...