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Officials say at least 16 workers are dead in the collapse of a crane at a highway construction site in western India NEW DELHI -- A huge crane collapse d at a highway construction site in western India, killing at least 16 workers , the country's National Disaster Response Force said Tuesday Television footage showed the collapse d crane on the ground as rescue workers looked for survivors near the site in Thane, a city just outside Mumbai. At least three people who were injured were rushed to a hospital. Press Trust of India reported the crane is used to install precast box girders while building highway and high-speed rail bridges. Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi expressed his condolences in a message on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. “My deepest condolences to the families of those who lost their lives. Our thoughts and prayers are with those who are injured,” his office said in a post. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/16-workers-killed-in-the-c...

Officials say the death toll from Russian missile strikes that hit apartment buildings in an eastern Ukrainian city has climbed to seven, with 81 people injured KYIV, Ukraine -- The death toll from two Russian missile strikes that hit apartment blocks and other buildings in an eastern Ukrainian city climbed to seven, with 81 people injured, authorities said Tuesday, as officials accused the Kremlin's forces of targeting rescue workers. Two Russian missiles slammed into the downtown area of Pokrovsk, in the eastern Donetsk region that is partially occupied by Russia, on Monday evening, officials said. The dead were five civilians, one rescue r and one soldier, Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said. The wounded were 39 civilians, including two children; 31 police officers; seven emergency workers ; and four soldiers. The Iskander missiles , which have an advanced guidance system that increases their accuracy, hit within 40 minutes of each other, according to Kyrylenko. Russia has since t...

When Ukraine was at peace, its energy workers were largely unheralded A POWER PLANT, Ukraine -- Around some of their precious transformers — the ones that still work, buzzing with electricity — the power plant workers have built protective shields using giant concrete blocks, so they have a better chance of surviving the next Russian missile bombardment. Blasted out windows in the power plant 's control room are patched up with chipboard and piled-up sandbags, so the operators who man the desks 24/7, keeping watch over gauges, screens, lights and knobs, are less at risk of being killed or injured by murderous shrapnel. “As long as there is equipment that can be repaired, we will work,” said the director of the plant that a team of Associated Press journalists got rare access to. The AP is not identifying the plant nor giving its location, because Ukrainian officials said such details could help Russian military planners. The plant’s director and his workers also refused to be iden...