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West Australian
3 days ago
- West Australian
At least 18 dead, dozens injured in Peru bus crash
A bus travelling from Lima to Peru's Amazon region has overturned on a highway in the Andes Mountains, leaving at least 18 people dead and 48 injured. The double-decker bus belonging to the company Expreso Molina Líder Internacional went off the road and fell down a slope in the district of Palca, Junín region, Junin's health director Clifor Curipaco told reporters on Friday. Authorities are still investigating the cause of the accident. Videos broadcast on local television showed the bus split in two, while firefighters and police tried to rescue the injured. It was not the first fatal bus accident in 2025, another bus fell into a river on January 3, leaving six people dead and 32 injured. A study by the Attorney-General's Office found driver recklessness and excessive speed are the main causes of accidents in Peru. Road transportation is poorly monitored by authorities in Peru, and emergency assistance is so slow and disorganised. In 2024, there were approximately 3173 deaths as a result of traffic accidents in the South American country, according to official data from the Death Information System.
Perth Now
3 days ago
- Perth Now
At least 18 dead, dozens injured in Peru bus crash
A bus travelling from Lima to Peru's Amazon region has overturned on a highway in the Andes Mountains, leaving at least 18 people dead and 48 injured. The double-decker bus belonging to the company Expreso Molina Líder Internacional went off the road and fell down a slope in the district of Palca, Junín region, Junin's health director Clifor Curipaco told reporters on Friday. Authorities are still investigating the cause of the accident. Videos broadcast on local television showed the bus split in two, while firefighters and police tried to rescue the injured. It was not the first fatal bus accident in 2025, another bus fell into a river on January 3, leaving six people dead and 32 injured. A study by the Attorney-General's Office found driver recklessness and excessive speed are the main causes of accidents in Peru. Road transportation is poorly monitored by authorities in Peru, and emergency assistance is so slow and disorganised. In 2024, there were approximately 3173 deaths as a result of traffic accidents in the South American country, according to official data from the Death Information System.
Business Times
18-06-2025
- Business
- Business Times
Wilmar International down 4% after Jakarta's seizure of 11.8 trillion rupiah from Wilmar Group in graft case
[SINGAPORE] The shares of Wilmar International fell on Wednesday (Jun 18) morning after the Indonesian authorities seized 11.8 trillion rupiah (S$928 million) from its parent company Wilmar Group in a palm-oil graft case. As at 9.08 am, the counter was trading at S$2.89, down S$0.12 or around 4 per cent from Tuesday's closing price of S$3.01, with 4.9 million shares having changed hands. This was the lowest level its share price had hit in more than five years. As at the market close, the counter recovered somewhat to finish at S$2.93, still down by S$0.08 or 2.7 per cent, with some 19 million shares having been transacted. This comes as the Indonesian authorities probe Wilmar Group and two other palm-oil companies, which they accuse of paying bribes to obtain export permits between January and April 2022. Wilmar International is the Singapore-listed subsidiary of Wilmar Group. On Tuesday, a spokesperson from the Indonesian Attorney-General's Office said that the seizure was part of its drive to recover state losses stemming from acts of corruption.
Business Times
18-06-2025
- Business
- Business Times
Wilmar International down 4% after Indonesian authorities seize 11.8 trillion rupiah from Wilmar Group in graft case
[SINGAPORE] Shares of Wilmar International fell on Wednesday (Jun 18) morning after Indonesian authorities seized 11.8 trillion rupiah (S$928 million) from its parent company Wilmar Group in a palm-oil graft case. As at 9.08 am, the counter was trading at S$2.89, down S$0.12 or around 4 per cent from Tuesday's closing price of S$3.01, with 4.9 million shares having changed hands. This is the lowest level its share price has hit in more than five years. By 9.54 am, it had slightly recovered to S$2.91, still down by S$0.10 or 3.3 per cent from Tuesday's closing price, with 9.5 million shares having changed hands. This comes as Indonesian authorities probe Wilmar Group and two other palm-oil companies, which they accuse of paying bribes to obtain export permits between January and April of 2022. Wilmar International is the Singapore-listed subsidiary of Wilmar Group. On Tuesday, a spokesperson from the Indonesian Attorney-General's Office said that the seizure was part of its drive to recover state losses stemming from the acts of corruption.
Euronews
07-02-2025
- Politics
- Euronews
Cyprus jails Syrian man over death of young girl on migrant boat
A Syrian man has been jailed for three years by a Cyprus court for causing the death by negligence of a 3-year-old girl who died of dehydration aboard an overloaded migrant boat. The Famagusta criminal court ruled that the 48-year-old captain had failed to ensure the safety of the 60 Syrian migrants in January last year during a journey on the small wooden craft, which carried no navigational aids or appropriate communications equipment. The captain had told the passengers at some point in the journey to throw any remaining bottles of water overboard in a bid to remove any indications that the boat had departed from Lebanon, the Attorney-General's Office in Cyprus said on Friday. The boat set sail on 18 January 2024, but an engine failure left the vessel adrift for nearly a week in the eastern Mediterranean, where many of the passengers began to drink sea water and their own urine to quench their thirst, according to the facts of the case. After locating the boat, Cypriot authorities airlifted the 3-year-old girl, who was accompanied by her mother, to a hospital, but medical staff could not save her life. The authorities did not name the perpetrator or the victim. The number of migrants arriving in Cyprus has fallen massively over the past three years after tough measures from the government. Authorities said the EU member nation's ability to host many thousands of new asylum seekers was being overwhelmed. Migrant arrivals to ethnically divided Cyprus — mostly through the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north, where government authorities cannot exercise jurisdiction — dropped from 17,278 in 2022 to 6,102 in 2024, according to the latest available government data. Meanwhile, asylum applications plummeted from a record 21,565 to 6,769 over the same period while repatriations increased to nearly 11,000 from 7,700. Following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad in Syria in December, Cyprus' Deputy Migration Minister Nicholas Ioannides said about 40 Syrian nationals on average each day are requesting to either withdraw their asylum application or to revoke their international protection status. Ioannides said this week that some 755 Syrians have already returned to their homeland. Cyprus lies closer to the Middle East than any other EU state, and thousands of Syrians have fled to the island in recent years, which last year caused the government to halt the processing of asylum applications altogether. Last October, Europe's top human rights court ruled that Cyprus breached the right of two Syrian nationals to seek asylum after keeping them, and more than two dozen other people, aboard a boat at sea for two days before sending them back to Lebanon.
