Disaster

A leftist SYRIZA deputy on Wednesday expressed her extreme grief over the apparent murder of a four-year-old girl by her father – a high-profile case that has shocked Greece – by also blaming the … capitalist system!

Three-year-old son of a miner, who was killed in Turkey?s worst mine disaster in 2013 along with 300 other miners in Soma, died on May 4 due a disease he had been suffering from for two years. 

Three people have been found alive under the rubble of a house in a village in Nepal eight days after the powerful earthquake in the country, international newswires reported on Sunday.

Rescuers on April 30 pulled a teenage boy out alive from under the wreckage of a guesthouse in Nepal five days after it collapsed in a massive weekend earthquake.

Russian flight control has lost the ability to rein in unmanned space vehicle “Progress” according to a Russian Space Agency official.

According to the statement, “Progress” was meant to resupply the ISS, but control was lost and the spacecraft is heading towards earth in an uncontrolled fashion.

No Bulgarian citizens, who are currently in Nepal, expressed interest to evacuate from the earthquake-stricken country with the airplane, which has been provided for the purpose by the Foreign Ministry.

This was announced by the ministry's spokesperson Betina Zhoteva in an interview for private NOVA TV on Wednesday.

The Air Traffic Safety Electronic Engineers Association on Tuesday called a three-hour “warning work stoppage” for Thursday, April 30, to protest staff and equipment shortages. The stoppage is to take place between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. on April 30.

Nepalese riot police battled April 29 to contain anger among survivors of an earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people as rescuers raced against time to find anyone else alive in the rubble of the capital Kathmandu.

Nepal declared a three-day national mourning for the more than 5000 victims of the disastrous earthquake, which hit the country on Saturday.

Nepal's Prime Minister Sushil Koirala said that the government was doing all it could, but was overwhelmed by the scale of the natural disaster, the BBC reports.

BELGRADE - Over 1,000 tons of hazardous waste will be disposed in Serbia by the end of the year, Head of Waste Management Department in the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Radmila Serovic announced on Tuesday.