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Saudi Arabia

Oil pipeline leak kills contractor

A contractor was killed and three other workers were injured in a pipeline leak in Saudi Arabia, state-owned oil giant Aramco said on Sunday. "Saudi Aramco regrets to inform the death of one contractor, and three other injuries involving one employee and two contractors," Aramco said in a statement. Aramco tweeted that the leak occurred at the Abqaiq facility, located 60 kilometers southwest of the company's main Dhahran compound.

Argentina

At least 19 dead in bus accident

A bus overturned in Argentina on Saturday near Aconcagua, the highest mountain outside Asia, killing at least 19 people and leaving 20 injured, officials said. Operated by the Chilean company Turbus, the bus was traveling from the province of Mendoza toward Chile with 40 people on board when the accident occurred in the Andes region, more than 1,000 kilometers from Buenos Aires. "Sixteen people died on the scene and another three in the hospital," Oscar Sagas, health undersecretary for the province, told the local news network.

Colombia

Rebels move to transition areas

Officials say roughly 6,900 members Colombia's largest rebel group have arrived in special transition zones to begin disarming, completing a key step in a revised peace deal that seeks to end more than five decades of armed conflict. A statement issued on Saturday by the peace process' Monitoring and Verification Mechanism said the final 300 Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia fighters had arrived at a zone in Caqueta province.

Belgium

One dead, 27 hurt in derailment

One person died and 27 others were injured - three of them seriously - when a train derailed on Saturday shortly after leaving a station east of Brussels, officials said. The train carrying 85 passengers derailed four minutes after leaving Louvain bound for the North Sea coast via the Belgian capital, the SNCB railway authority said. The cause of the derailment - which occurred shortly after 1:00 pm - was not immediately known and investigators were on the scene.

Zimbabwe

'No replacement for Mugabe'

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was quoted as saying on Sunday that his ZANU-PF party and the people saw no viable successor to him for general elections in 2018. "They want me to stand for elections, they want me to stand for elections everywhere in the party," he said in comments ahead of his 93rd birthday this coming week. Mugabe has been in power since 1980 and in December his party confirmed him as its candidate for the next presidential election expected in mid-2018, when he will be 94.

(China Daily 02/20/2017 page12)