Tag: World news

A bus carrying amateur football players and fans plunged into a river after careening off a bridge in eastern Mexico on Sunday, leaving at least 21 people dead, authorities said.Another 30 were injured in the crash in the municipality of…

At least four people were killed when a missile hit a hospital supported by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in northern Yemen, the aid agency says.MSF said the strike in Saada province, a Houthi rebel movement stronghold, had injured a further…

Riot police broke up far-right protesters in Cologne on Saturday as they marched against Germany’s open-door migration policy after asylum seekers were identified as suspects in assaults on women on New Year’s Eve.The attacks, ranging from sexual molestation to theft,…

Mexico has recaptured the world’s most notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, President Enrique Pena Nieto said via Twitter on Friday, six months after he brazenly broke out of a high security prison through a tunnel.Guzman, the head of…

Two men from the Middle East who came to the United States as refugees were arrested on federal terrorism charges in California and Texas for supporting Islamic militant groups, US officials said on Thursday.They are the latest in a series…

At least 65 people were killed on Thursday when one of Libya’s worst truck bombs in years exploded at a police training centre in the town of Zliten, local officials and hospital sources said.No group immediately claimed the attack, but…

North Korea said it had successfully conducted a test of a miniaturised hydrogen nuclear device on Wednesday morning, marking a significant advance in the isolated state’s strike capabilities and raising alarm bells in Japan and South Korea.The test, the fourth…

Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi Embassy in Tehran early on Sunday morning as Shia Muslim Iran reacted with fury to Saudi Arabia’s execution of a prominent Shia cleric.Demonstrators who had massed at the embassy gates to protest at Nimr al-Nimr’s…

Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes in Tonga Saturday when severe tropical cyclone Ula slammed into the tiny Pacific kingdom.However, there were no casualties after Prime Minister Akilisi Pohiva declared a state of emergency before the storm hit…

Suspected Islamist gunmen attacked an Indian air force base near the border with Pakistan early Saturday, security officials said, with at least two of the militants killed and fighting ongoing.A top security official, who asked not to be named, told…

Two people were arrested in Belgium on Sunday and Monday, both suspected of plotting an attack in Brussels on New Year’s Eve, federal prosecutors said.Police found military clothing and Islamic State propaganda material but no weapons or explosives, prosecutors said…

Iraq’s army declared victory over Islamic State fighters in a provincial capital west of Baghdad on Sunday, the first major triumph for the US-trained force since it collapsed in the face of an assault by the militants 18 months ago.The…

The head and several leaders of one of Syria’s most powerful rebel groups, Jaysh al-Islam, have been killed in an air strike east of Damascus.Founder Zahroun Alloush, 44, was among those killed when rockets hit a meeting place, rebels and…

A crowd has vandalised a Muslim prayer hall in Corsica in apparent retaliation for an attack on firefighters in the French Mediterranean island.Officials say a small group of protesters also tried to burn copies of the Koran in the capital,…

Recovery crews and utility workers began cleaning up widespread damage on Thursday left by severe storms that spawned tornadoes across six states in the US South and Midwest, killing at least 14 people and destroying scores of homes.Emergency declarations were…

A Thai court sentenced two migrant workers from Myanmar to death on Thursday after finding them guilty of the 2014 murders of two British tourists on a holiday island.The verdict follows an investigation and trial that was mired in controversy,…

At least 25 people were killed and 107 injured in a fire at a hospital in southern Saudi Arabia on Thursday, the civil defence agency said.The blaze broke out at the intensive care unit and the maternity department of the…

An aircraft crashed into a wall and burst into flames on the outskirts of the Indian capital, New Delhi, on Tuesday, killing all 10 people on board, officials said.The Super King plane, chartered by the Border Security Force (BSF), was…

Nobel prize winner Malala Yousafzai condemned Donald Trump’s views on Muslims on Tuesday, at a sombre ceremony to remember the 134 children killed in a Taliban attack on a Pakistani school a year ago.“Well, that’s really tragic that you hear…

New Zealand has confirmed that the black, white and blue silver fern design won a referendum to become a possible new flag, after the final votes were counted. A second referendum will be held in March to decide whether to…