BBC News: Deadly landslides have swept away homes in Venezuela’s Las Tejerias city, south of the capital Caracas. At least 22 people have been reported dead, and a further 52 are missing after the torrential rainfall caused by La Niña weather pattern. Vice President Delcy Rodriguez visited one of the worst-affected areas on Sunday. Rescue […]
BBC News: At least 76 people have been reported dead after a boat accident in Nigeria’s south-eastern state of Anambra. The boat, which was carrying at least 80 people, capsized on Friday in the Ogbaru area in Anambra state. Most of the victims were women and children, trying to reach safety after their community had […]
BBC News: Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine of attacking the bridge to Russian-annexed Crimea, saying that it was an “act of terrorism”. President Putin said Ukraine’s intelligence forces had aimed to destroy a critically important piece of Russia’s civil infrastructure. He was speaking at a meeting with the head of the Investigative Committee […]
ABC News: PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The roof of a home made of mud and wood in northern Pakistan caved in early Sunday killing nine family members, including eight siblings, police said. Police officer Imtiaz Khan said the incident in the town of Chilas in the Gilgit Baltistan region claimed the lives of four daughters and […]
BBC News: At least 17 people have been killed by Russian missile strikes on the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia, the Ukraine defence ministry has said. Dozens more were wounded, and several residential buildings destroyed. The city is under Ukrainian control, but it is part of a region that Russia says it annexed last month. Zaporizhzhia […]
ABC News: SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Sunday, the latest of a recent barrage of weapons tests, a day after it warned the redeployment of a U.S. aircraft carrier near the Korean Peninsula was inflaming regional tensions. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said […]
BBC News: Russia ramped up security on its only bridge to Crimea after a huge blast destroyed sections of it on Saturday. Russian President Vladimir Putin has now ordered the country’s Federal Security Service to oversee the key connector to the occupied peninsula. The blast on the pivotal symbol of Russia’s annexation of Crimea from […]
NDTV News: Twelve people have been arrested from across the country in four separate operations for allegedly duping people by creating fake websites and email IDs of leading firms, police said on Saturday. Police said a company filed a complainant alleging that some people had created a website and email ids containing the domain name […]
Al Jazeera: At least nine people have been killed in an explosion at a petrol station in County Donegal in northwest Ireland, authorities said, adding that search and rescue efforts were ongoing. The police updated the death toll on Saturday, a day after the explosion at about 3pm local time (14:00 GMT) at the Applegreen […]
ABC News: NEW DELHI — A bus caught fire after hitting a truck on a highway in western India early Saturday, killing at least 11 passengers, an official said. Another 24 people were injured and taken to a hospital in Nashik, a city in Maharashtra state, said Eknath Shinde, the top state elected official. Most […]
