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Ukraine says 1 soldier killed in east as tensions rise

(AP) — The Ukrainian fied in recent weeks and Rus- that “if Russia acts recklessly,
military said that a soldier sia has built up troops along or aggressively, there will be
was killed and another the Ukraine border. costs, there will be conse-
seriously wounded in ar- quences.”
tillery fire from Russia- Russia denies Western claims
backed separatist rebels that it has sent troops into Ukrainian forces and Russia-
Sunday, as hostilities rise eastern Ukraine to help backed separatists have been
sharply in the country’s the rebels, but officials say fighting in eastern Ukraine
east. the army could intervene if since shortly after Moscow’s
Ukraine tries to retake the 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s
As of the reported attack, area by force. The troops Crimean Peninsula. More
Ukraine says 27 soldiers buildup has raised sharp con- than 14,000 people have died
have been killed in the east cerns in the West. in the conflict, and efforts to
this year, more than half the negotiate a political settle-
number who died in all of U.S. Secretary of State Ant- ment have stalled.
2020. Attacks have intensi- ony Blinken warned Sunday

8 dead, dozens hurt as Indonesia quake shakes East Java

(28 miles) south of Sumber- ther mudslides or solidified quake in Malang district.
pucung town of Malang Dis- lava from a volcanic eruption
trict in East Java province, at in November, while oth- Television reports showed
a depth of 82 kilometers (51 ers were swept away by flash people running in panic from
miles). floods. Thousands of homes malls and buildings in several
with damaged. cities in East Java province.
Rahmat Triyono, the head of
Indonesia’s earthquake and Saturday's quake caused fall- Indonesia, a vast archipela-
tsunami center, said the un- ing rocks to kill a woman on a go of 270 million people, is
dersea tremblor did not have motorcycle and badly injured frequently struck by earth-
the potential to cause a tsuna- her husband in East Java’s quakes, volcanic eruptions
mi. Still, he urged people to Lumajang district, said Rad- and tsunamis because of
stay away from slopes of soil itya Jati, spokesperson for the its location on the “Ring of
or rocks that have the poten- National Disaster Mitigation Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and
tial for landslides. Agency. fault lines in the Pacific Ba-
sin.
This was the second deadly He said about 1,189 homes
(AP) — A strong earth- Sunday. It didn't trigger a disaster to hit Indonesia this and 150 public facilities, in- In January, a magnitude 6.2
quake on Indonesia's main tsunami. week, after Tropical Cyclone cluding schools, hospitals earthquake killed at least
island of Java killed eight Seroja caused a severe down- and government offices, were 105 people and injured near-
people, including a wom- The U.S. Geological Survey pour Sunday that killed at damaged. Rescuers retrieved ly 6,500, while more than
an whose motorcycle was said the magnitude 6.0 quake least 174 people and left 48 four bodies from the rubble 92,000 were displaced, after
hit by falling rocks, and struck off the island's south- still missing in East Nusa in Lumajang's Kali Uling striking Mamuju and Majene
damaged more than 1,300 ern coast at 2 p.m. Saturday. Tenggara province. Some village. Three people were districts in West Sulawesi
buildings, officials said It was centered 45 kilometers victims were buried in ei- also confirmed killed by the province.

Egypt prosecutors find gross negligence behind train crash

(AP) — Egyptian prosecutors before the collision. The ATC system prompted the then-transportation 2002, when over 300 people were
said Sunday they found that gross is a mechanism that guides trains’ safe minister to resign. killed after a fire broke out in an
negligence by railway employees operation and involves a speed con- overnight train traveling from Cairo
was behind a deadly train crash trol. Egypt’s deadliest train crash was in to southern Egypt.
that caused public outcry across
the country. Drugs were allegedly Prosecutors also allege that a control
also involved. tower guard had smoked hashish and
an assistant to a train driver had used
The March 26 crash of two passenger hashish and the opioid pain killer
trains in the province of Sohag, about Tramadol, commonly sold as a street
440 kilometers (270 miles) south of drug in Egypt. The statement did not
Cairo, was the latest in a series of elaborate as to whether drugs had im-
deadly railway accidents in the Arab pacted their decision making at the
most populous country. At least 18 time of the crash.
people died and 200 others, including
children, were injured. Prosecutors said they have yet to con-
clude their investigation in the crash.
Prosecutors last month ordered the
detention of eight railway employ- Train wrecks and mishaps are com-
ees, including two train drivers, their mon in Egypt, where the railway sys-
assistants, the head of traffic control tem has a history of badly maintained
in neighboring Assiut province, and equipment and mismanagement.
three traffic control guards.
Hundreds of train accidents are re-
The findings, announced Sunday in ported every year. In February 2019
a detailed statement by the public an unmanned locomotive slammed
prosecution, allege that a driver and into a barrier inside Cairo’s main
his assistant had deactivated the au- Ramses railway station, causing a
tomatic train control system (ATC) huge explosion and a fire. That crash