MEXICO CITY -- At least 19 people were killed early Tuesday after a double-decker passenger bus collided with a trailer on the Mazatlan-Culiacan Highway in northern Mexico, Sinaloa state Attorney General Sara Bruna Quinonez Estrada confirmed.

In a message posted on social media platform X, the head of the Sinaloa State Attorney General's Office said: "So far, according to the expert work that is still being carried out in that area, 19 lifeless bodies have been registered" at the site of the accident in the municipality of Elota. (Mexico-Crash)

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KHARTOUM -- Commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan on Tuesday said that the army is continuing its battle to defeat the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

"We do not want to waste time in talking. We want to move forward," Al-Burhan, also chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council, made the remarks while addressing soldiers at a military base in the New Halfa area in eastern Sudan. (Sudan-Civil War-Army Chief)

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CAIRO -- Egypt seeks to establish power interconnection with Europe to export electricity to European countries, Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker said Tuesday.

Shaker made the remarks during a meeting with Gordon Dickie, chairman of IM Power, to discuss ways to boost cooperation between the Egyptian energy sector and the British company, the Egyptian Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy said in a statement. (Egypt-Europe-Power Link)

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BERLIN -- A former top lawyer of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Germany was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for aiding and abetting serious tax evasion in the "cum-ex" scandal, the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court ruled on Tuesday.

The man, whose sentence can still be appealed, had advised Maple Bank on cum-ex deals, a business model allowing wide-scale tax rebates on sums that were never paid. It was unclear for a long time whether such deals were illegal. (Germany Society Law-Cum-ex) Enditem

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