The death toll in deadly flooding and landslides across Indonesia’s Sumatra rose on Tuesday to 631, with one million people evacuated, the disaster agency said.
Government agencies and aid groups are rushing to get aid to those affected, while rescuers search for 472 people still listed as missing.
South Yemen stands today at a historic crossroads, similar in magnitude to the moment of its first independence in 1967. On 30 November 1967, the last British soldier left Aden, marking the proclamation of the Republic of South Arabia—later the People’s Republic of South Yemen—as a fully
Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hardhat gazed at a grey wall of seemingly endless dials, screens and gauges that were supposed to prevent disaster. The 1986 meltdown at the site was the world’s worst ever nuclear incident.
South Korean prosecutors on Friday sought a 10-year prison sentence for ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol, for offenses linked to his attempt to impose martial law last year. Yoon briefly suspended civilian rule in South Korea for the first time in more than four decades on December 3, 2024, prompting massive
President Donald Trump said Thursday night that he’d launched a “powerful and deadly” US strike against Daesh forces in Nigeria, after spending weeks accusing the West African country’s government of failing to rein in the persecution of Christians. “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United
