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Preliminary information said, “there were three crew members and 13 passengers on board”. A helicopter with 16 people on board, most of them tourists, has crashed in the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia’s far east the local government said, with seven passengers unaccounted for. The Mi-8 helicopter came down in Lake Kuril in the Kronotsky nature reserve, it said in a statement on Thursday. According to AP news agency, the helicopter is reportedly lying at a depth of about 100 meters (328 feet) in Lake Kuril, which is up to 316 meters (1,037-feet) deep with an area of 77 square kilometers…

Haitian President Jovenel Moise was shot dead by unidentified attackers in his private residence overnight in an “inhuman and barbaric act” and his wife was injured, Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph said on Wednesday. He said the police and army had the security situation under control but gunshots could be heard throughout the capital after the attack, which occurred amid a rising wave of politically linked violence in the impoverished Caribbean nation. With Haiti politically divided, and facing a growing humanitarian crisis and shortages of food, there are fears of widespread disorder. “The President was injured and succumbed to those…

A military C-130 plane crashed in the southern Philippines on Sunday with death rising to 52 on Monday. Officials said that investigators have begun to look into what caused the accident. Two injured soldiers died in the hospital, bringing the total number of military personnel killed in the fatal crash to 49. The civilian death toll remained at three. The plane crashed in Patikul town on Jolo Island, 1,000 kilometres south of Manila, Defence Secretary, Delfin Lorenzana, said. Another 47 soldiers and four civilians were injured in the accident and were being treated in hospital, Mr Lorenzana said. Some of…

A private plane crash has killed all six people on board, including two American missionaries, in Haiti, southwest of capital Port-au-Prince. The New Telegraph, the plane crashed over the weekend en route an airport in Port-au-Prince to the southern coastal city of Jacmel. The newspaper cited a statement by the National Civil Aviation Office (NCAO) and the cause of the crash was not immediately known. The US-based organisation Gospel to Haiti also posted an announcement on its Facebook page confirming that two of its group members, 35-year-old Trent Hostelter, and John Miller, 43, both American citizens, died in the crash.…

Ebrahim Raisi declared Iran’s new president Raisi will take office in early August, replacing moderate President Hassan Rouhani who was not allowed by the constitution to run for a third consecutive term. Conservative judiciary head has been elected Iran’s eighth president, the interior ministry has announced. The ministry confirmed on Saturday that Raisi won 61.95 percent of the vote in Friday’s election on a voter turnout of 48.8 percent – the lowest turnout for a presidential election since the 1979 revolution. Raisi got 28,933,004 votes. At 3,726,870 votes, void votes finished second in the race, also for the first time…

Zambia's founding president, Kenneth Kaunda dies aged 97 Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's founding president who led his country for 27 years and championed Africa's struggles against apartheid and HIV/AIDS, has died at the age of 97. "KK", as he was popularly known, was being treated for pneumonia at the Maina Soko Medical Centre, a military hospital in Lusaka. read more "On behalf of the entire nation and on my own behalf, I pray that the entire Kaunda family is comforted as we mourn our first president and true African icon," President Edgar Lungu said in a message on his Facebook page.…

THE WHISPERER reports that Zambia President Edgar Lungu collapsed in the capital, Lusaka, during a national defence day event on Sunday. Shortly after, Secretary to the Cabinet, Dr Simon Miti, issued a statement to reporters and the State TV, assuring the local public and the international community that President Lungu "is well and has continued to discharge his duties". Dr Miti disclosed that during the observation of the 45th Defence Force Day Commemoration and Investiture Ceremony, the President experienced "sudden dizziness" but recovered immediately. Mr Lungu is said to have walked on his own to his car and returned to…

Former U.S. President Donald Trump has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari’s ban on Twitter, saying it was a victory for the people of Nigeria and a needed check on the excesses of social media giants. “Congratulations to the country of Nigeria, who just banned Twitter because they banned their President,” Mr Trump said in a statement issued Tuesday night. Mr Trump also said he wished he had taken a similar measure when he was banned from the micro-blogging platform in January. He called on other world leaders to take stringent aims at Facebook, Twitter and other big tech players and warned…