Six days of clashes in two Damascus suburbs may have killed hundreds of people, a dramatic spike in the rising death toll in the Syrian civil war, activists said Monday.
The reports came as President Bashar Assad's forces pressed on with a major offensive in the suburbs against opposition...
Preliminary figures indicate that at least 241 people died in road accidents over the Easter holiday, Transport Minister Ben Martins said on Monday.
A total of 201 fatal crashes were recorded during the Easter break, he told reporters in Pretoria.
"It is regrettable and [a] sad reality...
Africa in particular is losing the fight against road accidents, which kill more than one million people worldwide each year, a UN World Health Organisation report showed Thursday, calling for stricter laws to help turn around the trend.
"We are not all equal before road traffic crashes,"...