Ankara, Türkiye — A rubber boat carrying migrants capsized in the Aegean Sea on Wednesday after a high-speed chase by the coast guard, killing 18 migrants, authorities said. At least 21 other migrants were rescued. The Turkish Coast Guard Command said the boat carrying dozens of migrants ignored repeated warnings to stop and attempted to…
Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported that Israel has attacked a building in Beshoura, located in the centre of Beirut, with an explosion and smoke rising in the area shortly after Israel issued a threat to evacuate the site. The attack was part of a deadly wave of Israeli attacks across Lebanon that killed at…
Irkutsk regional governor Igor Kobzev said in a post on social media today that the impact incident on frozen Siberian Lake Baikal was the third in just two days. Divers were forced to use remote equipment to find the tourists after the incident (Image: Anadolu via Getty Images) Eight people have died in a horrific mass…
Johannesburg– Human-caused climate change has worsened the situation, as recent torrential rains and floods devastated parts of southern Africa, killing more than 100 people and displacing over 300,000, researchers said Thursday. A study by World Weather Attribution showed that the region of South Africa, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe received a year’s worth of rain in just…
Manila, Philippines A boat carrying more than 350 people sank near an island in the southern Philippines early Monday, killing at least 18 people, authorities said. Rescuers rescued hundreds of people, while a flotilla of coast guard and navy vessels are still searching for the missing. Coast Guard officials said the cargo and passenger ferry…
Scattered pieces of debris have been found after an Indonesian plane carrying 11 people crashed. Rescue workers confirmed on Sunday that pieces of plane debris had been found in South Sulawesi, a day after it disappeared mid-flight. Wreckage of an aircraft found during search and rescue operations in Maros, South Sulawesi. Credit: EPA. Debris was…
