Reuters :Six people were killed on Thursday when a sightseeing plane crashed in a mountainous area of southeast Alaska, officials said, leaving no survivors.The craft, a De Havilland Beaver, had been ferrying five cruise...
Reuters :Australian officials warned Sydney residents on Friday to brace for a surge in Covid-19 cases after the country’s largest city logged record infections for the second straight day despite a weeks-long lockdown to...
Al Jazeera :South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma, jailed for contempt of court last month, has been admitted to a hospital outside prison for “medical observation”, according to officials.“Everyone who is detained, including every...
Reuters :More than 1,100 homes in North Korea were damaged, thousands of people evacuated, and farms and roads washed away after days of heavy rains brought flooding, its state media reported.The reports come as...
Al Jazeera :At least 2.3 million children and youth are going hungry in northeastern Nigeria where escalating violence has forced farmers to flee their fields and put the region on the brink of critical...
Reuters :The UN World Food Program (WFP) warned on Friday it may not have enough funding for the next six months to help millions of people in Myanmar facing food insecurity amid a wave...
AFP :Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement said it fired “dozens” of rockets on Friday at open areas of the disputed Shebaa Farms district, drawing retaliatory Israeli strikes for a second straight day. It is the first...
BBC Online :Thousands of Hong Kong residents are to be offered a temporary “safe haven” in the US, President Joe Biden says.Mr Biden said that because Hong Kong’s freedoms were being violated by China,...
Reuters :The main thoroughfare in a historic California gold-rush town was in smoldering ruins on Thursday, hours after the state’s largest wildfire engulfed the hamlet of Greenville in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.Fire crews were...
Reuters :Haiti’s government has requested help from the United Nations to conduct an international investigation into the killing last month of President Jovenel Moise, the country’s embassy in the Dominican Republic said on Thursday....
Al Jazeera :The Philippine capital and several nearby provinces have headed back into a strict lockdown in a bid to curb the spread of the Delta variant, just hours after people scrambled desperately for...
Reuters :Troops patrolled the streets on Thursday in Srinagar, the main city of Indian Kashmir, where many shops were shut to mark the second year since the Himalayan region was stripped of its autonomy.In...
