BBC: A teenager who went to two schools in the UK is believed to be among the people missing after a devastating fire at a Swiss ski resort that killed at least 40 people and injured 119 others. Charlotte Niddam previously attended Immanuel College in Hertfordshire and the Jewish Free School in north-west London, according […]
BBC: More than 100 people have had to shelter in a shrine on a mountain top in Japan after heavy snowfall cut off access by road. Around 130 people were forced to spend the night in the halls and lobbies of the Mitsumine Shrine in the Saitama prefecture on Friday after the roads around it […]
(Reuters) WASHINGTON, Jan 3- The U.S. has struck Venezuela and captured its President Nicolas Maduro, who has been taken out of the country, President Donald Trump said on Saturday. The U.S. has not made such a direct intervention in Latin America since the invasion of Panama in 1989 to depose military leader Manuel Noriega. “The […]
NDTV: Myanmar’s military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party is leading after the first phase of a contentious general election, early results cited by state media showed, in the first vote since a 2021 coup. Having sparked a nationwide rebellion after crushing pro-democracy protests in the wake of its coup, the ruling junta has said the […]
(Reuters) SAO PAULO, Jan 2 – A head-on collision between a bus and a truck left at least 11 people dead on Friday in southern Brazil, the country’s Federal Highway Police said in a statement. Another seven people were injured in the accident, which took place on a federal highway in Brazil’s southernmost state of […]
ABC: CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland — In the aftermath of a fire inside a Swiss Alpine bar that killed 40 people celebrating the new year, survivors, friends and family members, the region’s top authorities and even Pope Leo have spoken to the public in remarks in French, Italian, German and English, reflecting the tradition of Swiss multilingualism. Another 119 people […]
ABC: Several explosions were heard around 2 a.m. local time in Venezuela’s capital city of Caracas, witnesses said, and photos and videos showed plumes of smoke and a large fireball in the night sky. This comes amid rising tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela including a build-up of U.S. military forces in the Caribbean and […]
BBC: Two people including a three-year-old child have been killed and around 28 others injured in a Russian strike on Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials have said. A multi-storey residential apartment block was almost completely destroyed in the dual missile attack on Friday afternoon, which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called “heinous”. Russia’s Defence Ministry denied reports of […]
BBC: Yemen’s future hangs in the balance after a dramatic turn of events in the south which have brought Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates into unprecedented direct confrontation and threaten the country with partition. Both Gulf powers have intervened on behalf of Yemen’s internationally recognised government in the country’s long-running civil war, but […]
BBC: Russia has accused Ukraine of killing at least 27 people in a drone strike on a New Year’s party in a hotel and cafe in the Russian-occupied southern Kherson region. According to the Russia-installed regional governor, Vladimir Saldo, more than 30 people were injured in the alleged attack, which he said happened in the […]