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India

At least 70 injured as train derails

At least 74 people were injured after a train derailed in Uttar Pradesh, the second train accident in the state in the last three days, officials said on Wednesday. The Kafiyat Express derailed at 2:40 am when a truck carrying sand for construction overturned on the tracks near Auraiya town. Senior state government official Arvind Kumar said the train driver was forced to brake and the impact caused eight coaches and the engine to go off the rails.

Yemen

60 people killed in coalition strikes

The Saudi-led coalition carried out several airstrikes on Wednesday, hitting a small hotel near the capital Sanaa and killing dozens of Shiite Houthi rebels and civilians, Yemeni officials and witnesses said. According to the officials, about 60 people were killed in the attack in Arhab, about 35 kilometers north of Sanaa.

Spain

Terror cell planned 'bigger' attack

Police on Wednesday widened their probe into a terror cell that unleashed carnage in Spain last week, after a suspect admitted the extremists were targeting monuments in Barcelona in an even bigger attack. Officers carried out new raids overnight to root out a possible support network for the men, accused of plowing vehicles into pedestrians on Barcelona's Las Ramblas boulevard and a seaside promenade in the resort town of Cambrils, claiming 15 lives and wounding more than 120 people.

Pakistan

Market fire guts hundreds of shops

Hundreds of shops were burned to ashes in a high-intensity fire that broke out in a market in the capital Islamabad on Wednesday, officials and local reports said. Zeeshan Naqvi, deputy mayor of Islamabad, said the fire broke out in the Sunday Market after a sweeper torched some trash near a makeshift cloth stall. The fire then spread to the nearby cloth section of the market.

Thailand

Major step to boost breast-feeding

The country is moving to ban advertisements for infant milk formula in a bid hailed as a major step for a country which has one of the world's lowest breastfeeding rates. But experts have also called for greater action to protect mothers' rights to do so. The World Health Organization recommends that babies be breast-fed exclusively for their first six months then have a diet of breast milk and other food until they are two years old.

Denmark

Body identified as missing journalist

Police said on Wednesday that a headless torso found in the Baltic Sea has been identified as that of missing Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who is believed to have died on an amateurbuilt submarine that sank earlier this month. Wall, 30, was last seen alive on Aug 10 on Danish inventor Peter Madsen's submarine, which sank off Denmark's eastern coast the day after. Madsen, who was arrested on preliminary manslaughter charges, denies having anything to do with Wall's disappearance.

(China Daily 08/24/2017 page11)