
Monday, November 9
Train accident in Egypt and Kurdish language protests in Rojava
Train accident in Egypt
Kamîran: Our first story comes from Egypt, where a serious incident occurred on the railway line south of the capital Cairo.
Ronahî: In the Ayat area belonging to the Giza governorate, two trains collided. According to Egypt's Ministry of Health, four people lost their life and eighty-eight others were injured.
Ronahî: The National Authority for Railways announced that the train travelling from Giza to Fayoum collided with another train heading from Cairo to Aswan.
Student protests for the Kurdish language
Kamîran: In Hasakah, Kobani, and the Girkê Legê region there was also movement on the streets, with students protesting certain decisions on the language of education.
Ronahî: Students gathered in front of the Kevok roundabout in Hasakah, in Martyrs' Square in Kobani, and in Girkê Legê. They called for education in Kurdish to continue and for the Kurdish language to be officially recognised in the constitution.
Ronahî: In their statements they expressed dissatisfaction with the decision to restrict Kurdish education and demanded protection of the right to mother-tongue education.
Kamîran: These constitutional demands are resonating on such a day.
Migrant disaster off the coast of Senegal
Ronahî: In western Africa a migrant boat also sank.
Ronahî: Senegal's Ministry of the Interior reported that a boat capsized off the coast of Kebemer and that the bodies of twenty-one people have been found since the night of the seventh of November.
Kamîran: Was only one person rescued?
Ronahî: Yes, only one person was rescued and the ministry did not give a clear date for the incident.
Five-point-seven magnitude earthquake in Japan
Kamîran: An earthquake also struck Japan, and tremors were felt near the capital as well.
Ronahî: The Japan Meteorological Agency said a five-point-seven magnitude earthquake occurred in western Shizuoka Prefecture at a depth of forty kilometres. The quake struck two hundred kilometres from Tokyo.
Ronahî: According to local authorities and media sources, at least twenty-four people were injured in Shizuoka and Aichi prefectures, including a ninety-year-old woman.
Saudi-led coalition intercepts two missiles
Kamîran: Two missiles were also fired from Yemen toward Saudi territory.
Ronahî: The Saudi-led coalition announced that its defence systems destroyed two Houthi missiles heading toward Riyadh before they reached their targets.
Ronahî: Coalition spokesman Turki Al-Maliki said they had also destroyed both missile launch pads in Yemen's Saada province.