AFP, Ankara
Ten people drowned while 43 others were rescued after a boat carrying migrants to Greece sank off Turkey’s western coast, Turkish news agency Dogan reported on Saturday.
More than one million refugees and migrants arrived by land and sea in the European Union last year and some 3,600 died or went missing.
Top gang leader arrested in Karachi
Reuters, Karachi
One of Pakistan’s most notorious gangsters, the alleged mastermind of a string of murders of local politicians and policemen, was arrested on Saturday in the country’s crime-ridden commercial capital of Karachi.
“Lyari gang war leader Uzair Baluch has been arrested at outskirts of Karachi while entering the city,” the Rangers paramilitary force said in a statement, with a photo showing him sitting handcuffed in a vehicle.
4 miners rescued in China after
36 days
AFP, Shanghai
Four miners trapped underground for 36 days in a collapsed Chinese gypsum mine were pulled out late Friday, a rescue hailed as a “miracle” in a country with a poor track record on industrial accidents.
The final operation to save the men trapped more than 200 metres (660 feet) underground took two hours as they were hauled up to the surface one by one in a rescue “capsule”, according to state broadcaster CCTV.
