Train crash kills 4, injures 65 in Bangladesh

A derailed train is pictured in the Kulaura outskirts of Moulvibazar, Bangladesh, on Monday. Five cars of the express train veered off a railway bridge, killing at least four people and injuring 65. The train was heading for the capital, Dhaka, when the crash occurred. The rail bridge broke down when the train was crossing it. The cause of the breakdown wasn’t immediately known.SD-Agencies

China’s Qu picked to lead UN food agency

Qu Dongyu, China’s deputy agricultural minister, was elected on Sunday as the new director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the first person from China to hold the influential FAO post.

The agency’s 194 member countries convened at the FAO headquarters in Rome to choose a successor to Jose Graziano da Silva of Brazil for the four-year term.

Qu, 55, a biologist by training, won 108 votes, followed by France’s Catherine Geslain-Laneelle with 71 votes and Georgia’s Davit Kirvalidze with 12, according to official results. The United States had backed Kirvalidze.

Turkey opposition deals blow to Erdogan

Turkey’s opposition revelled* on Monday in a landslide win in Istanbul’s re-run mayoral vote — a blow for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that even some pro-government media called a victory for democracy.

Ekrem Imamoglu, a little-known district mayor at the start of the year, won the election by more than 777,000 votes, up from just 13,000 in the first election in March, which was annulled* over controversial claims of fraud.

Cambodia building collapse toll rises

Rescue workers on Sunday picked through the rubble of a collapsed Chinese-owned building in a Cambodian beach town in a desperate search for survivors, after the construction site accident killed at least 17 people.

One person was pulled alive from the flattened* seven-story building on late Saturday, more than 12 hours after it collapsed in the beach resort of Sihanoukville. By Sunday morning rescuers had scoured barely half of the debris of twisted metal, glass and large concrete slabs.

Trump launches 2020 re-election campaign

U.S. President Donald Trump launched his 2020 re-election campaign on June 18 much the same way he rode to power in 2016 — with a raucous*, nationalist rally stirring fear of illegal immigration and vowing to fight for blue collar workers.

“We did it once and we’re going to do it again,” Trump promised some 20,000 ecstatic* supporters in Orlando, Florida.

DRPK leader receives letter from Trump

Top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un has received a personal letter from U.S. President Donald Trump, the country’s official Korean Central News Agency reported on Sunday.

After reading the letter, Kim “said with satisfaction that the letter is of excellent content,” the report said. The top DPRK leader said he would “seriously contemplate* the interesting content,” the report added.(SD-Agencies)