At least 10 elderly people were killed as a result of a fire at a retirement home in northern Spain, a media report said on Saturday. Reuters reported: “At least 10 people were killed after a fire broke out in a retirement home in the northern Spanish town of Villafranca de Ebro early on Friday”. More
Save the Children says 4.9 million children die every year form preventable disease across the country. The British charity wrote on X: “A shocking 4.9m children die every year from preventable diseases …” It noted climate change, conflicts and global health emergencies were threatening child survival across the world. “It’s time for action, not words,” More
Five people, including four children, were killed and 14 other persons injured in a bomb blast in the North Waziristan District of Pakistan on Thursday, a media report said. Mashal Radio reported the blast happened early morning in Meransha’s Tapi locality inside a house. “Some people put explosives in a Mazda vehicle when a blast More
At least 35 people have been killed after a man ploughed his car into crowds exercising at an outdoor sports centre in southern China, media reports said on Wednesday. Another 43 people were injured and hospitalised as a result of the rampage in the southern city of Zhuhai on Monday night, Reuters reported. It said More
At least five Iranian border guards have been killed in an armed attack in Sistan-Baluchestan province, a media report said on Monday. The ethnic Baluch members of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard’s volunteer Basij force were killed in Saravan city on Sunday night, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. The troops came under attack while performing More
One individual has been killed and 16 others have been injured in a shooting at the Tuskegee University in Alabama, the United States. According to the Associated Press, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency reported that Jaquez Myrick, 25, of Montgomery, was arrested while leaving the scene of the campus shooting. Authorities discovered he was carrying More
The US president-elect has asked the Russian leader not to escalate the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, reports The Washington Post. In a phone call, Donald Trump reminded Vladimir Putin of America’s massive military presence in Europe, the newspaper quoted sources as saying. The incoming US president evinced an interest in follow-up discussions on the early More
Republican candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday defeated Vice President Kamala Harris to secure a second term in the White House, Fox News reported. The 2024 election was a “movement never seen before”, a triumphant Trump told supporters at an election watch event in Palm Beach, Florida With more than 90 percent of the ballots counted, More
Amid a search for the missing people, the death toll from Spain’s deadliest floods in decades has soared to 95, reports CNN. Spain’s Minister of Territorial Policy Angel Victor Torres was quoted as saying 92 people were killed in the worst-hit region of Valencia,. Two deaths were reported from Castile-La-Mancha and from Andalusia, as heavy More
Three security personnel, including an army major, and eight alleged militants have been killed in the Bannu district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The killings occurred in a shootout in the Bakka Khel area of the volatile district, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Wednesday. A statement from the army’s media wing said the More
