BBC: Wildfires have forced around 60,000 people to evacuate parts of Washington state, destroying hundreds of buildings and leaving thousands without power. Three major blazes continued to burn around the city of Spokane on Monday, with officials warning that the fires had not been contained. Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown described the situation as “the worst […]
BBC: Hundreds of Ethiopians from the Tigray region have crossed into neighbouring Sudan following fighting between regional forces and the Ethiopian army over the weekend. In one of the most serious confrontations since the end of the civil war in the area four years ago, intense clashes broke out on Saturday morning in Shererina, near […]
Al Jazeera: A suicide bomber has killed at least 14 people and wounded others outside a police station in Pakistan‘s Swat Valley, striking near a crowd that had gathered to protest. The bombing happened on Sunday evening in Kabal, a town in the valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, near the border with Afghanistan. According to Swat […]
Al Jazeera: Israeli forces have killed at least 19 Palestinians in Gaza, despite United States President Donald Trump announcing a plan he described as a “monumental step” towards peace and security in the shattered enclave. The deaths on Sunday included three people killed in an air raid on a residential apartment in Al-Sousi Tower in […]
BBC: Japan and the United States have confirmed a rare, coordinated yen-buying intervention to halt the Japanese currency’s slide to 40-year lows, with Tokyo signalling it is willing to take further action if needed. The Japanese Ministry of Finance confirmed the joint intervention after a statement by US President Donald Trump on Sunday announced that […]
BBC: Two crew members have been killed after two helicopters collided mid-air in Greece while battling wildfires. The fatalities were a Danish pilot and a Greek fire service liaison officer. A British pilot and another Greek co-ordinator on the second helicopter survived. Video of the incident some 65 km (42 miles) west of the capital […]
Al Jazeera: A search-and-rescue operation for four pilots is underway in Greece after a mid-air collision between two firefighting helicopters. Television video showed one of the helicopters explode and plunge to the ground in flames after an apparent rotor collision. They were in the Psatha area near Athens battling wildfires that have destroyed more than […]
BBC: At least eight people in Gaza have been killed in overnight strikes which hit residential buildings, Palestinian officials have said. Gaza’s Civil Defence Authority said Israeli military aircraft carried out the strikes on Gaza City, Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah. A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), said it was targeting military operatives […]
BBC: At least three people have been killed and 21 injured after a homemade explosive device was detonated at an Italian restaurant in Moscow, Russian state media reports, quoting security officials. The blast happened at about 20:00 local time (17:00 GMT) on Kudrinskaya square near the city centre. The National Anti-Terrorist Committee said a woman […]
BBC: Five people have been found dead and 41 are missing after an Indonesian ferry carrying at least 250 people caught fire while at sea, officials say. The captain of the ship reported the fire – off Madura island – as the vessel sailed from the country’s second-largest city, Surabaya in East Java, to Makassar […]
