Railway police filed a case of criminal negligence, without naming any suspects.

The South command of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said Russian forces blew up the Soviet-era Nova Kakhovka dam in the occupied Kherson region.

Russia and Ukraine have often made claims of inflicting heavy human losses on each other which could not be independently verified.

India’s Railway Board has recommended that the Central Bureau of Investigation take over the investigation into the cause of the disaster.

Russia’s defence ministry also released video of what it said showed several Ukrainian armoured vehicles in a field blowing up after being hit.

The jet fighters prompted a sonic boom over the US capital in an attempt to pursue with the errant Cessna Citation, officials said.

Khan said the country’s most powerful spy agency, the military’s Inter Services Intelligence, was deeply involved in the crackdown on his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party.

Restrictions in Hong Kong have stifled what were once the biggest vigils marking the bloody crackdown by Chinese troops on pro-democracy demonstrators.

Ties between Washington and Beijing are badly strained over a range of issues, including democratically ruled Taiwan, territorial disputes in the South China Sea and restrictions on semiconductor chip exports.

A preliminary report has blamed a signal failure for the accident. As the rescue operations continue, the number of dead is likely to rise.

Experts said Friday’s train accident came as a blow to Modi’s makeover plans for railways.

Long-considered the lifeline of the world’s most populous country, the 170-year-old system has seen rapid expansion and modernisation.

Video footage shows derailed train coaches and damaged tracks, with rescue teams searching the mangled carriages to pull the survivors out and rush them to hospital.

The sentences were both significantly lower than prosecutors’ recommendations of 12 years for Hackett and 10 years for Moerschel.

The death toll from Friday’s crash is expected to rise, the state’s Chief Secretary Pradeep Jena said on Twitter.