Five people were killed and 11 were injured as a result of a three car pileup in Egypt's southern province of Sohag, the local police department said on Tuesday

The Customs of Russia's major eastern port city, Vladivostok, discovered a vehicle on board a ship arriving from Japan that was contaminated with radioactivity, which was the first such case in the past three years, the Customs' press service said

At least seven people died as a result of the collapse of a bridge in Cameroon's southeastern Littoral region, local media reported citing local authorities

At least nine people have been killed and one remains missing after a footbridge collapsed in Indonesia's Sumatra island, media reported on Monday, citing rescue services

Five minors were killed after the roof of one of the madrasas in the southwestern Afghan province of Kandahar collapsed, the provincial education department's spokesman, Nazar Mohammad Samimi, told Sputnik on Monday

Iran's supreme leader said Friday that demonstrations at home over the accidental downing of a Ukrainian airliner were unrepresentative of the Iranian people and accused the countrys enemies of exploiting the disaster for propaganda purposes.