Death toll in India's Mumbai foot bridge...

NEW DELHI, March 15 (Xinhua) -- The death toll in the foot-bridge collapse in India's financial capital of Mumbai has risen to six and 31 others were injured, police said Friday. "In last evening's f

UN chief shocked, saddened by fatal buil...

UNITED NATIONS, March 14 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was "shocked and saddened" by the fatal collapse of a building in Nigeria, his spokesperson said Thursday. "The secretary-ge

Panel report blames Cyprus FinMin for ba...

NICOSIA, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Cyprus Finance Minister Harris Georgiades, the man generally credited for steering his country's economy out of utter collapse in 2013, was named as the main culprit behi

Death toll of Indonesia's mine collapse ...

JAKARTA, March 5 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a mine collapse in North Sulawesi province of central Indonesia has risen to 17 while the search and rescue efforts were thwarted by further slides of

9 miners killed in Indonesia mine collap...

JAKARTA, March 2 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from collapse of an illegal gold mine in central Indonesia has reached nine as unstable soil condition vulnerable to another mine slide hampered efforts to

Brazil arrests another 8 people linked t...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian authorities on Friday arrested eight employees of the country's mining giant Vale for their alleged responsibility for a tailings dam collapse last month

Death toll from Brazil's dam collapse ri...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a dam collapse approximately two weeks ago at an iron mine in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais has risen to 157, authorities sai

Chinese president sends condolences to B...

BEIJING, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday sent a message of condolence to his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro over a dam collapse which caused heavy casualties one da