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At least 79 people were killed when a pipeline ruptured by suspected fuel thieves exploded in central Mexico, the country's health minister announced on Sunday. The governor earlier said the tragedy happened when residents scrambled to get buckets and drums to a gush at the pipeline that authorities said rose up to 23 feet (seven meters) high. The massive explosion and ensuing blaze broke out at a pipeline spot in the community of San Primitivo of the municipality of Tlahuelilpan at around 7:00 p.m. local time (0100 GMT), when roughly 700 people gathered around to collect the leaking fuel, according to authorities in the area. Forensic experts filled body bags with charred human remains in the field where the explosion, in one of the deadliest incidents to hit Mexico's troubled oil infrastructure in years, occurred. “Everyone came to see if they could get a bit of gasoline for their car, there isn't any in the gas stations,” farmer Isaias Garcia, 50, told Reu

China's gross domestic product (GDP) topped 90 trillion yuan in 2018, and the economy grew by 6.6 percent in 2018, compared to 6.9 percent a year earlier, according to the country's National Bureau of Statistics. Ning Jizhe, Commissioner of National Bureau of Statistics discussed the national economic performance in 2018 and released key indicators during the press conference on Monday. 

The ships involved in the shipwrecks left from Libya and Morocco. One was spotted sinking in rough waters on Friday by an Italian military plane on patrol. Due to lack of fuel, the Italian plane had to leave after dropping two safety rafts into the water, Fabio Agostini, Rear Admiral told TV channel RaiNews24.  A naval helicopter was dispatched and rescued three people who were suffering from severe hypothermia and taken to hospital on the island of Lampedusa. "During this operation, at least three bodies were seen in the water who appeared to be dead," Agostini said. The three survivors said they had left Gasr Garabulli in Libya on Thursday night as part of a group of 120 people, mainly from West Africa, according to Flavio Di Giacomo, spokesman for the International Organization for Migration (IOM). "After ten to 11 hours at sea... (the boat) started sinking and people started drowning," Di Giacomo said, adding the passengers included ten women and two ch

Kim Yong Chol, top envoy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is expected to arrive in Washington by the weekend and set to stay in the U.S. for two days, CNN reported Thursday. Kim is vice chairman of DPRK's ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) Central Committee. According to CNN, Kim is expected to meet U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. special representative to the DPRK Steve Biegun on Friday. The group is expected to discuss the details of a planned summit between DPRK leader Kim Jong Un and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump. "A lot of positive things are happening," a White House spokesperson told CNN, without confirming anything. "We are working to make progress on our goal of achieving the final, fully verified denuclearization of North Korea (DPRK), and the president looks forward to meeting Chairman Kim again at their second summit at a place and time yet to be determined." Republic of Korea's (ROK) of

A 218-meter-long glass bridge in Baojing Palace of Yingde, a county-level city in south China's Guangdong Province, opened to tourists on January 16. It is the first glass bridge in the province that is built over karst landscapes and a swan lake. Previous Views of the glass bridge and slide in Baojing Palace of Yingde, Guangdong Province /VCG Photo The glass bridge in Baojing Palace of Yingde City, Guangdong Province, south China. /VCG Photo  Glass slide and swan lake in Baojing Palace of Yingde, Guangdong Province /VCG Photo Views of the glass bridge and slide in Baojing Palace of Yingde, Guangdong Province /VCG Photo The glass bridge in Baojing Palace of Yingde City, Guangdong Province, south China. /VCG Photo  Next Baojing Palace, meaning the palace of treasures and crystals in Chinese, is one of the oldest tourist attractions open to the public in Guangdong with a history of 35 years. It is renowned for its breathtaking scenery of karst caves th