Train derailment in Pakistan leaves 1 dead

Police check the site of a train derailment in Sukkur district of Pakistan’s south Sindh province on Sunday. A woman was killed and over 25 others were injured when nine out of 18 compartments of the train derailed, Inspector General of Pakistan Railways Police Arif Nawaz said.Xinhua

Meghan reveals ‘concerns’ on Archie’s skin color

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has said there was concern within the royal family about her baby’s skin tone, and her husband Prince Harry condemned his relatives for failing to criticize colonial undertones in media coverage, in a series of damning and disturbing claims that threaten to spark a racism scandal around Buckingham Palace.

Meghan told Oprah Winfrey during her highly anticipated interview on Sunday that an unnamed member of the family raised the issue of how dark their unborn baby Archie’s skin would be while she was pregnant.

There were several “concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he was born,” she said, in one of the most stunning revelations from an explosive confessional that will pose problems for the palace.

Italian prosecutor seeks life sentences for US men

An Italian prosecutor on Saturday demanded life sentences for two young Americans being tried on murder charges after a policeman was killed following a botched drugs sale in Rome.

Finnegan Lee Elder, who was 19 at the time, has admitted to stabbing Mario Cerciello Rega in the early hours of July 26, 2019, while his friend Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, then 18, was tussling with another police officer.

Under Italian law, anyone who participates even indirectly in a murder can face murder charges. Prosecutor Maria Sabina Calabretta said in her four-hour indictment that the attack against the policeman was “disproportionate” and carried out with “the purpose of killing.”

US House approves police reform bill

The U.S. Democrat-led House of Representatives on late night of March 3 approved a sweeping police reform bill in a 220-212 vote.

Under the bill, racial profiling at every level of law enforcement would be prohibited; chokeholds, carotid holds and no-knock warrants would be banned at the federal level; qualified immunity for officers would be overhauled and a national police misconduct registry would be created so as to ban officers fired for such discretion from being hired by another police department.

UK unveils 3-point

economic recovery plan

British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak on March 3 announced a three-point plan in Budget 2021 to offer support for jobs and businesses amid the COVID-19 pandemic while setting a path for the economy to rebound.

Delivering the Budget in the House of Commons, Sunak unveiled a package of measures such as extending a couple of supporting schemes, strengthening public finances and highlighting investment-led recovery, among others, as Britain is striving to the revive its pandemic-hit economy.

7 students fall to death at Bolivia university

At least seven students died and five were seriously injured when they fell from the fourth floor of a university building in Bolivia after a metal railing gave way on March 2, the government said.

Footage of the incident shows students crammed into a narrow passageway trying to enter an assembly hall.

A metal railing can be seen giving way under the weight of the pushing and shoving students, with several plummeting to the concrete floor below at the El Alto university near La Paz. Others clutched onto fellow students to escape the same fate.

(SD-Agencies)