A fuel tank truck exploded near Sierra Leone's capital, killing at least 98 people and severely injuring dozens of others, after large crowds gathered to collect leaking fuel, officials and witnesses said Saturday. The explosion took place late Friday when the tanker collided with another truck as it was pulling into a gas station near a busy intersection in Wellington, just east of the capital Freetown, according to the National Disaster Management Agency. "Both drivers came out of their vehicles and warned community residents to stay off the scene while trying to address a leakage emanating from the collision," the agency said. In this deeply impoverished country, however, crowds still rushed in to scoop up fuel, witnesses said. It was not immediately known what caused the leaking fuel to ignite, but a massive explosion soon followed. This video frame grab taken from AFPTV footage shows firefighters working to put out the blaze at a gas station early on Saturday f...
The leaders of the worldâs 20 largest economies have signed off on an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) deal for a global minimum 15 per cent corporation tax rate, the United States has announced. Ireland had been one of the holdouts against the agreement to reform how multinationals are taxed, but ultimately agreed to change its long-time flagship 12.5 per cent corporation tax rate earlier this month. US treasury secretary Janet Yellen announced that every leader of the countries representing 80 per cent of the worldâeconomy had supported the reform at the Rome summit. âToday, every G20 head of state endorsed an historic agreement on new international tax rules, including a global minimum tax that will end the damaging race to the bottom on corporate taxation,â said Ms Yellen. â...
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