Reuters, Mumbai
A four-storey building housing a nursing home in the suburbs of the Indian city of Mumbai collapsed on Tuesday, killing at least four people with more than 30 feared trapped, fire and police officials said.
“Rescue work with the help of rescue gear is in process,” said P.S. Rahangdale, chief fire officer of the Mumbai Fire Brigade.
“Removal of the topmost reinforced concrete slab is in progress, as is a search for trapped persons inside the cavity.”
‘We don’t care’ about US travel ban: Pyongyang
AFP, Pyongyang
Washington’s ban on US citizens travelling to North Korea will have no effect on the country’s tourism industry and Pyongyang does not care about it “at all”, a senior development official insisted Tuesday.
The measure is due to be enacted this week and once it goes into force US passports will no longer be valid for travel to the isolated country, which is subject to multiple sets of United Nations sanctions over its nuclear and missile programmes.
Erdogan says signatures signed on Russian defense system
Reuters, Ankara
Turkey has made progress in plans to procure an S-400 missile defense system from Russia and signatures have been signed, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday.
“Steps have been taken and signatures signed with Russia concerning the S-400s. God willing we will see the S-400s in our country,” Erdogan told lawmakers from his ruling AK Party at a party meeting in parliament.
Israel removes metal detectors from
sensitive holy site
AFP, Jerusalem
Israel removed metal detectors from a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site in the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday and said they would no longer be used after the new security measures set off deadly violence.
The move came after intensive international diplomacy seeking to stop the outbreak of wider unrest, with warnings that it could spread far beyond Israel and the Palestinian territories.
