Cloudbursts are causing chaos in mountainous parts of India and Pakistan, with tremendous amounts of rain falling in a short period of time over a concentrated area. The intense, sudden deluges have proved fatal in both countries. As many as 300 people died in one northwestern Pakistani district, Buner, after
A club shooting in the New York City borough of Brooklyn early Sunday morning has left three people dead and nine others wounded in a year of record low gun violence in the city. Investigators believe up to four shooters opened fire with multiple weapons at Taste of the City
As Russia held its Victory Day parade this year, hackers backing the Kremlin hijacked an orbiting satellite that provides television service to Ukraine. Instead of normal programing, Ukrainian viewers saw parade footage beamed in from Moscow: waves of tanks, soldiers and weaponry. The message was meant to intimidate, and it
Germany’s foreign minister hit out Monday at what he called China’s repeated threats to “unilaterally change” borders in the Asia-Pacific region, calling Beijing “increasingly aggressive.” “China repeatedly threatens, more or less openly, to unilaterally change the status quo and shift borders in its favor,” Johann Wadephul said in
At least 20 people were killed and 134 injured by a fire at an production facility in Russia’s Ryazan region, state news agency RIA reported on Monday, citing local emergency service. It was not immediately clear from Russian media reports what caused the fire.
US President Donald Trump said reclaiming Crimea or entering NATO were off the table for Ukraine, as President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Washington for Monday talks aimed at ending the war with Russia. Zelensky, who has repeatedly rejected territorial concessions, will meet Trump in Washington on Monday, accompanied by European
Sudanese paramilitary forces shelled North Darfur’s besieged capital El-Fasher on Saturday, killing at least 17 civilians and injuring 25 others, a medical source said. Speaking anonymously for safety reasons, the source at El-Fasher Hospital said these numbers only account for those who reached the hospital, adding that others were
Two people, a 52-year-old man and his 13-year-old son, were killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on Russia’s Kursk region, the local governor said on Saturday. In a statement published on Telegram, Kursk governor Alexander Khinshtein said that the two had been killed when their car caught fire as
Eighteen people were killed and nine injured in the Algerian capital on Friday when a bus plunged from a bridge into a river, the emergency services said. The accident happened in late afternoon in the Mohammadia district of east Algiers and two of the injured were in critical condition, they
Russia launched 85 attack drones and a ballistic missile targeting Ukraine’s territory, Ukraine’s Air Force said on Saturday. Frontline territories in the Sumy, Donetsk, Chernihiv, and Dnipropetrovsk regions were targeted in the overnight strikes, the air force said on the Telegram messaging app. It said its air defense
A highly anticipated summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday yielded no agreement to resolve or pause Moscow’s war in Ukraine, despite both leaders describing the talks in Alaska as productive. During a brief appearance before the media following the nearly three-hour talks,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that he plans to meet US President Donald Trump in Washington next week after Trump’s summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin secured no agreement to end the war in Ukraine. Zelensky said he held a “long and substantive” conversation with Trump on Saturday
A blast at a factory in the Russian region of Ryazan on Friday killed 11 people and left 130 injured, Russia’s emergencies ministry said on Saturday. In a statement on Telegram, the ministry said rescuers were continuing to search through rubble at the scene of the blast, 320km (198
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Chinese President Xi Jinping told him China would not invade Taiwan while Trump is in office. Trump made the comments in an interview with Fox News, ahead of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. “I will
The Trump administration on Friday reversed course and agreed to leave the Washington, D.C., police chief in control of the department, while Attorney General Pam Bondi, in a new memo, directed the District’s police to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement regardless of any city law. The order from
The death toll from heavy rains and flooding in Pakistan has crossed 300, local officials said on Saturday. The majority of the deaths were recorded in mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to the National Disaster Management Authority. Five others, including two pilots, were killed when a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government helicopter
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Air Canada’s flight attendants went on strike Saturday, a work stoppage the airline has said will shut down service and create summer travel chaos for its 130,000 daily passengers. “We are now officially on strike,” the Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents Air Canada’s 10,000
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China’s defense ministry accused Philippine Coast Guard vessels on Friday of “dangerous maneuvers” in response to reports of a collision earlier this week between two Chinese vessels near Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea. The Philippine vessels’ actions “seriously endangered the safety of Chinese vessels and personnel,
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Spain battled against 14 major fires on Friday as authorities warned of “unfavorable conditions” to tackle fires that have already killed seven people and burned more than 150,000 hectares (579 square miles). A 12-day heatwave and southerly winds meant firefighters were facing another challenging day in one of the
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Libya is set to hold rare municipal elections on Saturday, in a ballot seen as a test of democracy in a nation still plagued by division and instability. Key eastern cities — including Benghazi, Sirte and Tobruk — have rejected the vote, highlighting the deep rifts between rival administrations. The UN mission
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US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he thought Vladimir Putin was ready to make a deal on ending his war in Ukraine after the Russian president floated the prospect of a nuclear arms agreement on the eve of their summit in Alaska. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his European
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Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem on Friday accused Lebanon’s government of “handing” the country to Israel by pushing for the group’s disarmament, warning it would fight to keep its weapons. Qassem spoke in a televised address after meeting Iran’s top security chief Ali Larijani, whose country has long
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A political standoff in Texas over proposed House maps that could hand Republicans five new seats is poised to enter a new phase Friday, while heavily Democratic California plans to release its own new maps intended to erase all but a sprinkle of the state’s GOP House districts in
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South Korea’s new liberal president, Lee Jae Myung, said Friday he will seek to restore a 2018 military agreement with North Korea aimed at reducing border tensions and urged Pyongyang to respond to Seoul’s efforts to rebuild trust and revive dialogue. Speaking on the 80th anniversary of Korea’
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At least 60 people have died and more than 100 are missing, a day after sudden, heavy rain caused floods and landslides in Indian Kashmir, authorities and local media said on Friday, the second such disaster in the Himalayas in a little over a week. Gushing mudslides and floodwaters inundated
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Firefighters with air support scrambled to control a wind-driven wildfire that erupted Thursday morning in hills along Interstate 5 in northwestern Los Angeles County, officials said. The King Fire, which broke out around 1 a.m., charred nearly a square mile (2.5 square kilometers) of tinder-dry brush in a
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Sudan’s army chief on Thursday vowed there would be no compromise with paramilitary forces who have been at war with the regular army for more than two years amid a deepening humanitarian crisis. Speaking on the centenary of the Sudanese armed forces, General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan renewed his commitment
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Flash floods caused by torrential rains in a remote village in India-controlled Kashmir have left at least 44 people dead and dozens missing, authorities said Thursday, as rescue teams scouring the devastated Himalayan village brought at least 200 people to safety. Following a cloudburst in the region’s Chositi village,
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Turkiye will help Syria with the provision of weapons systems and logistical tools under a military cooperation accord signed on Wednesday, a Turkish defense Ministry source said on Thursday, adding that Ankara would also train Syria’s army in the use of such equipment if needed. In a first step
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A blast rocked Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib on Thursday, state media said, reporting at least two dead and without identifying its cause. Residents told AFP they heard the sound of explosions in the western outskirts of the provincial capital. State news agency SANA reported “an explosion whose cause
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet with ally UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London on Thursday ahead of a key US-Russia summit in Alaska. Zelensky was to arrive at 9:30 am (0830 GMT) at Downing Street, the prime minister’s office said, after Starmer on Wednesday maintained there
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WhatsApp accused Moscow of trying to block millions of Russians from accessing secure communication after calls on the messaging app were restricted, as Russia promotes home-grown social media platforms and seeks greater control over the country’s Internet space. Russia said on Wednesday that it had started restricting some WhatsApp,