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The collapse of a gold mine in southern Sudan has killed at least 60 small-scale miners, two survivors told AFP on Wednesday (September 16, 2026), while many more are missing and feared dead under the rubble. Shafts began collapsing in the Al-Zaraa mine near the town of El-Nahud in West Kordofan on Tuesday (September 15,…
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Rescue workers carry out search and rescue operations following flash floods at a scenic area in Weiyuan County, Dingxi City, Gansu Province, China. File photo: cnsphoto via Reuters. The toll from a flash flood in northwest China has risen to 25 dead, with 23 injured, state media reported on Sunday (August 2, 2026), a week…
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Screen grab from a video posted by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on October 24, 2025, shows what he says is U.S. military forces conducting a strike on a vessel being operated by Tren de Aragua trafficking narcotics in the Caribbean Sea in on October 23, 2025. (X/@SecWar) A U.S. strike against an alleged drug…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi. File | Photo Credit: AP Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (September 1, 2025) expressed deep anguish at the loss of lives due to an earthquake in Afghanistan, and said India stands ready to provide all possible humanitarian aid and relief to those affected. An earthquake in Afghanistan’s east has killed…
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A military helicopter carrying Injured victims of an earthquake that killed hundreds and destroyed villages in eastern Afghanistan takes off in Mazar Dara, Kunar province, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Responding to Sunday night’s magnitude 6.0 earthquake in Afghanistan that killed at least 800 people, India has launched disaster relief and…
Hurricane Milton crashed into the U.S. State of Florida as a Category-3 storm Wednesday (October 9, 2024), pounding the coast with ferocious winds of over 100 mph (160 kph), heavy rain and producing a series of tornadoes around the state. Tampa avoided a direct hit. The cyclone had maximum sustained winds of 120 mph (205…
Emergency services work at a building hit by an air strike in Damascus, Syria. File | Photo Credit: AP Israeli strikes in central Syria killed at least seven people late Sunday (September 8, 2024), including three civilians, a war monitor reported. Since the start of the civil war in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried…
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Israel-Gaza war has been going on since October 7, 2023 (File) With much of Gaza reduced to rubble by 10 months of war, counting the dead has become a challenge for the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry, as the death count nears 40,000. Israel has repeatedly questioned the credibility of the daily figures put out by…
People gather at the scene of a collapsed two-storey building in Jos, Nigeria, on July, 12, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A two-story school collapsed during morning classes Friday in north-central Nigeria, killing 22 students and sending rescuers on a frantic search for more than 100 people trapped in the rubble, authorities said. The Saints…
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