11 civilians killed in rebel-held Donetsk
Kiev: Shelling killed 11 civilians and wounded eight more over the past 24 hours in the besieged rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, local authorities said on Friday.
Taipei gas blast: kid Dead, 13 wounded
Taipei: A toddler was killed and 13 people were injured in a gas explosion near Taipei on Friday, officials said, two weeks after powerful gas blasts claimed 30 lives in southern Taiwan.
India plans to buy
Russian aircraft
Moscow: India plans to buy three airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) A-50 aircraft from Russia, a source in the Russian Governmental military and industrial commission said on Friday. “India is mulling possible delivery of another three AEW&C aircrafts, talks are on now,” the source said without specifying a timeline planned for a deal to strike.
6 sentenced to death in Vietnam for heroin
Hanoi: An official says a Court in northern Vietnam has sentenced six people to death for trafficking heroin from laos to be sold to China. Judge Pham Van Nam said six, including two women, were convicted of trafficking 110 kilograms of heroin, from mid- 2012 until the gang was busted in May last year, at the end of a three-day trial on Thursday in Dien Bien province.
Toll rises as fighting intensifies in Ukraine
Kiev: At least 16 people were killed in eastern Ukraine over the past one day as Government forces stepped up their offensive against independence-seeking rebels, authorities said on Friday. The conflict has reached a critical stage in Donetsk city, where heavy shelling on Thursday afternoon killed 11 civilians and injured eight others.
China has over 4.36 lakh HIV/AIDS patients
Beijing: Mortality rate of HIV/AIDS carriers dropped by 6.6 per cent last year in China due to effective use of free treatment while total number of patients stands at over 4.36 lakh, a top health official said on Friday.
24 killed in Syria’s Daraa, Aleppo: NGO
Beirut: At least 14 people were killed on Friday when a car bomb exploded in front of a mosque in Daraa province of southern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. In northern Syria, the group reported 10 people killed when regime
helicopters dropped explosive-packed “barrel bombs” on Aleppo city.
China airline sued for rejecting HIV carriers
Beijing: Two HIV-positive passengers and a friend are suing a Chinese airline for refusing to let them on board, in the country’s first such lawsuit, state media reported on Friday.