News of the Day From Around the World
Deadly collision: A runaway truck carrying volatile gas slammed into other vehicles and burst into flames on a major road in Kenya, killing at least 39 people and injuring 10, officials said early Sunday.
The truck lost control while going downhill on the road from the capital, Nairobi, to Naivasha late Saturday, said Mwachi Pius Masai, the deputy director and communications officer for the National Disaster Management Unit.
Hundreds of Syrians stood in long lines Sunday, some getting on government buses, to flee the ever shrinking rebel-held enclave of eastern Aleppo as military troops and allied militias continued their push to regain full control of the opposition stronghold.
Syria’s state news agency said at least 4,000 people fled the enclave Sunday.
Residents said government air strikes hit the last remaining bridge that linked eastern and western Aleppo, a largely symbolic strike.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he believes U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will be a good friend to Israel and hopes the two countries can work together to dismantle the international nuclear agreement with Iran.
The left-leaning Social Democrats took a big lead early Monday in partial results from Romania’s parliamentary elections a year after a major anticorruption drive forced the last Socialist prime minister from power.
Exit polls pointed to similar results, and the chairman of the Social Democrats, Liviu Dragnea, greeted the news cautiously, saying he was “quite satisfied” and “overwhelmed” by what the exit polls predicted.