Landslide after heavy rain kills 11 in Colombia Colombian Civil Defense workers try to locate survivors at a landslide site in Mallana, Colombia, on November 2. A landslide in Colombia’s southwestern province of Narino killed 11 people and left several others injured on November 2, according to the country’s disaster relief agency.Xinhua 9 dead after floods in Sri Lanka, southern India Nine people are dead and two others missing after floods in Sri Lanka and parts of southern India caused by more than a week of pounding rains. Nearly half of Sri Lanka’s 25 districts have been hit by the deluge, with the worst affected areas in and around the island’s tea-growing Central Highlands. “Five deaths and two disappearances were reported” across Sri Lanka since the rains began at the end of October, Pradeep Kodippili of the island’s disaster management agency said on Monday. More floods are likely in the coming days with downpours set to move to the country’s northern coast, the country’s weather bureau warned. 8 killed in US music festival stampede U.S. rappers Travis Scott and Canadian singer Drake, as well as concert giant Live Nation and NRG Stadium, have been sued over the Astroworld Festival tragedy claiming eight lives and injuring many others in a crowd surge on Friday night, media reported on Sunday. Fox News reported that it can confirm that Texas attorney Thomas J. Henry filed a lawsuit on Sunday against Scott, whose real name is Jacques Bermon Webster, and Drake, whose real name is Aubrey Drake Graham, as well as entities including Live Nation and NRG Stadium. Live Nation was reportedly responsible for the security of the festival and Scott himself. The lawsuit was said to be on behalf of 23-year-old concert-goer Kristian Paredes from Austin, Texas, who was injured in the incident, which appears to be one of the deadliest crowd disasters at a music event in years. 108 killed in fuel tanker explosion in Sierra Leone Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio on Saturday expressed his condolences over a fuel tanker explosion in the capital Freetown that claimed more than 100 lives. At least 108 people were killed and 92 others injured in the blast on late Friday, Sierra Leone’s National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) confirmed on Saturday. “Deeply disturbed by the tragic fires and the horrendous loss of life around the Wellington PMB area. My profound sympathies with families who have lost loved ones and those who have been maimed as a result,” said Bio. The president pledged the government will “do everything to support affected families.” Iraqi PM survives assassination attempt Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Sunday criticized an assassination attempt carried out by a drone targeting his official residence and called for calm dialogue among all Iraqis for the future of the country. Al-Kadhimi confirmed in a video posted on his official Twitter page that he and other workers at his residence are safe, stressing that “cowardly missiles and cowardly drones do not build a homeland or a future [for the country], and we are working to build our homeland by respecting the state and its institutions and creating a better future for all Iraqis.” Morocco king: Western Sahara ‘not negotiable’ Morocco’s King Mohamed VI said on Saturday that Western Sahara is “not negotiable,” as tensions flared with Algeria over the disputed territory. “Today as in the past, Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara will never be up for negotiation,” the king said in a televised speech. Morocco sees the former Spanish colony as its own sovereign territory while Algeria backs Western Sahara’s Polisario Front independence movement in the conflict. “If we engage in negotiations, it is essentially in order to reach a peaceful solution to this artificial regional conflict,” the king said. (SD-Agencies) | 