About 40,000 people have been ordered to evacuate in southern California after a tank containing hazardous chemicals risked leaking or exploding at an aerospace facility in Orange County, media reports said on Saturday. Residents in six cities in Orange County were told to leave their homes on Friday after a storage tank containing up to More
The bodies of two men and two children have been recovered from a river following a traffic accident on the Kabul-Jalalabad highway in the Surobi district of Kabul province, the National Disaster Preparedness Authority (NDPA) said on Saturday. In a statement, NDPA said two vehicles collided in Surobi district on Friday before plunging into the More
One person has been killed and 36 others injured in an explosion at a dry dock repair facility in New York City, United States, a media report said on Saturday. The blast occurred on Friday on Staten Island while firefighters were responding to a fire and attempting to rescue two people trapped inside the facility, More
Six people were killed and three others injured in a traffic accident in the Daman district of southern Kandahar province, an official said on Saturday. The accident occurred on the Kandahar–Kabul highway when a Corolla passenger car collided with a trailer truck. Police spokesman Mullah Asadullah Jamshid told Pajhwok Afghan News that the incident took More
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that many green card applicants currently in the United States must return to their home countries to complete the application process. The Guardian reported that foreigners seeking to adjust their immigration status in the US to obtain green cards will now have to apply from outside More
At least 11 people have been killed and dozens of houses damaged after flash floods hit northern Baghlan province. Hedayatullah Hamdard, head of disaster preparedness at the Baghlan Natural Disaster Management Department, told Pajhwok that floods struck Burka district overnight, killing 11 people and destroying 40 houses. He added that floods in Burka, Dand-e-Ghori, Deh-e-Ghori, More
A senior US military official has said that Washington has temporarily suspended a $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan in order to preserve ammunition stocks for a potential conflict with Iran. According to a report by Al Jazeera, acting US Navy Secretary Hung Cao told lawmakers during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense hearing on More
At least nine people have been killed and several others injured after a four-storey residential building collapsed in the Moroccan city of Fez. According to a Reuters report, the building collapsed during the night in a densely populated neighbourhood of the city. Officials said residents of nearby buildings were evacuated over concerns of possible further More
According to reports, Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives unexpectedly cancelled a vote on a resolution that would have required Donald Trump’s administration to obtain congressional authorization to continue the war with Iran. Reuters reported that the vote had been scheduled for Thursday evening before the start of the Memorial Day holiday, but More
The United States Department of State has announced that it has approved the possible sale of equipment related to the Hawk missile system to Ukraine, valued at $108.1 million. The original statement said that the US State Department has approved the potential sale of equipment for the Hawk missile system to Ukraine worth $108.1 million. More
