Tourist plane crashes in Peru, killing 13 people on sightseeing flight

Local media ‌said ‌the plane ⁠was carrying 11 ⁠passengers and 2 pilots when it crashed near the Nazca Lines archaeological site on Saturday

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One of the geoglyphs etched into a slope at the Unesco Nazca Lines world heritage site in the Peruvian desert. On Saturday, a tourist plane visiting the archaeological site crashed, killing all 13 passengers and crew, police said. Photo: Peruvian Ministry of Culture / AFP

At least 13 people died when a small plane carrying tourists to view Peru’s famed Nazca Lines archaeological site crashed, police said on Saturday.

“We have information that 11 passengers and two crew members have died,” Police Major Jorge Andrade told reporters


Trump disputes his own Justice Department’s findings on Reflecting Pool

US President ⁠Donald Trump posted on Saturday ⁠that he disagrees with his ⁠own Justice Department’s findings that a flawed installation, not vandalism, caused the lining of the newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington to peel.

“I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of ‌Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform. “I don’t know what she was thinking? To me,


3 dead, 15 injured in explosion near Moscow cafe, police say

An explosion on Saturday near a Moscow cafe killed at least three people and wounded another 15, police said, without saying what caused the blast.

“From the information we have, an explosion happened today at around 8.10pm near a summer cafe, causing three deaths and 15 injured, of varying degrees of seriousness,” Moscow police told state news agency RIA Novosti.

Investigators and police forensic specialists were on site, the statement added.

Images posted on Russian Telegram channels showed fire engines and ambulances


Truck explodes outside Colombia police base, injuring 11 officers and killing a dog

Colombia’s government on Saturday blamed the nation’s largest remaining rebel group for an explosion outside a police base that injured 11 officers and killed a police dog.

The attack took place early Saturday in Cucuta, a city along Colombia’s border with Venezuela, where drug gangs and rebel groups have long fought for the control of smuggling routes.

General William Rincon, the director of Colombia’s police, said the blast came from a truck that had been left outside a building that serves as the headquarters for


White House uses anti-Trump singer Bad Bunny’s song for ICE video

Bad Bunny carries a Puerto Rican flag for the Super Bowl halftime show in Santa Clara, California in February. Photo: The Seattle Times / TNS

The White House has used a song by Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny, a well-known opponent of US President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, as music for a video about operations by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The clip, which shows arrests of migrants, drew criticism on social media and can now only be viewed on TikTok without the music of the song “La MuDANZA” (The Move) from the album DeB


Israel says it killed several Hezbollah fighters in south Lebanon

The Israeli military said an Israeli soldier was also injured there despite a ceasefire. Hezbollah has not claimed any attacks since June 20

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Smoke rises following an Israeli strike in the town of Deir Seryan, Nabatieh, southern Lebanon on Friday. On Saturday, Israel said it killed several Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon. Photo: EPA

The Israeli military said on Saturday that it killed several Hezbollah fighters in south Lebanon and that an Israeli soldier was injured there despite a ceasefire.

The military said it identified several Hezbollah fighters overnight inside what Israel has


US embassies urge citizens to consider departing Middle East

US embassies in capitals across the Middle East on Saturday warned American citizens to beware of an “unforeseen escalation” in the regional conflict and urged them to be ready to leave.

The warning, posted online by US embassies in Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates came a day after US President Donald Trump threatened to hit Iran “very hard”.

Iran and the United States have been at war since February 28. A period of


Hong Kong set for heavy showers, squally thunderstorms over next few days

Hongkongers should brace for more bad weather over the next few days.

The Hong Kong Observatory warned on Saturday that showers would be heavy at times with squally thunderstorms over the coast of southern China in the next couple of days under the influence of a broad trough of low pressure and an active southerly airstream.

Meanwhile, authorities said they received six landslide reports between Friday and Saturday evening, as well as a report of damage to the facing of a retaining wall.

The weather forecaster said there were thundery showers over the coast of


Nepal’s famed climber and 9 others die in Pakistan avalanche

Celebrated Nepali climber Nirmal Purja, who set a record for the fastest ascent of the world’s 14 highest mountains, died in an ‌avalanche during an expedition in Pakistan, his company said on Saturday.

“Today it is with profound sadness and immense heartbreak that we confirm that Nirmal ‘Nimsdai’ Purja tragically lost his life following the avalanche on Broad ⁠Peak,” his expedition organising company Elite Exped said on social media.

“We have also received confirmation that other members of the expedition sadly did not ‌


Hong Kong gauges views on 50:50 split for public flats, subsidised sale homes

Hong Kong authorities are gauging public feedback on a possible shift in the supply ratio of public rental flats to subsidised sale homes to an even 50:50 split, the housing minister has said.

Secretary for Housing Winnie Ho Wing-yin told a planning forum on Saturday that the total supply of public housing would reach 196,000 flats over the next five years.

Under measures outlined in Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu’s 2024 policy address, the Housing Authority –