LIMA -- At least seven people were killed and another 48 injured on Saturday when a long-distance bus fell into a ravine in the central Peruvian region of Huanuco, said Peru's National Emergency Operations Center.
Rescue teams formed of police and firefighters arrived at the site of the accident and helped evacuate those injured to hospitals around Huanuco. (Peru-Accident-Ravine)
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NEW YORK -- Chinese American community groups are preparing to hold their second annual International Confucius Cultural Festival on Sept. 8 in Flushing of Queens, New York City's easternmost borough.
The event serves not only as a pageant to commemorate the world-famous Chinese philosopher, but a chance to celebrate the splendid Chinese culture together with other local communities, said Wang Lizhi, president of America East Shandong Association, which groups immigrants from eastern China's Shandong Province, in Flushing, one of NYC's fastest-growing Chinatown. (U.S.-Confucius Festival)
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ADDIS ABABA -- A car accident in north Ethiopia's Tigray regional state left 13 people dead, an Ethiopian official said on Saturday.
Berhane Mebrat, chief inspector of Tigray's Tankua Abergale district, said the accident happened on Friday afternoon when a passenger minibus traveling on the road overturned and fell into a ditch leaving 13 dead and two others gravely injured, reported state media Dimtsi Woyane Tigray. (Ethiopia-Accident)
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ADDIS ABABA -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed broke a week of silence to announce on Saturday that violence in Ethiopia's Somali regional state last weekend is now under control.
Speaking to media outlets, Ahmed said the region is returning to normalcy with the help of the federal government and regional administration officials. (Ethiopia-Unrest)
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SAN FRANCISCO -- U.S. investigators are trying to recover the black box of the aircraft stolen from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, which crashed into a small island in the Puget Sound in the west U.S. state of Washington Friday, a federal investigation agency official said Saturday.
"We know where they (flight data recorders) are located in the aircraft. We just need to get out there to take a look at the wreckage (and) figure out where everything is and then we can start digging into it," Debra Eckrote, regional chief of the National Transportation Safety Board Western Pacific, told reporters in Seattle. (U.S.-Stolen Aircraft) Enditem
