At least 16 people have been killed and three others injured after a fire broke out at a nursing home in Indonesia, Al Jazeera reported on Monday. Jimmu Rotinsulu, head of the fire and rescue agency in the city of Manado, said firefighters received a report of the blaze at the Werdha Damai retirement home More
At least 13 people have been killed and nearly 100 injured after a train derailed in Mexico’s south-western Oaxaca region, media reports said on Monday. The train, travelling between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean, was carrying 241 passengers and nine crew members, the BBC reported. A total of 98 people were injured, More
At least 15 people have been killed and 19 others injured after a passenger bus plunged into a ravine on the Inter-American Highway in western Guatemala, media reports said on Sunday. The crash occurred on Saturday between kilometres 172 and 194 in an area known as “Alaska Peak” in Totonicapán department, a region notorious for More
Thailand and Cambodia have signed a ceasefire agreement to end weeks of intense fighting along their shared border, which has killed more than 100 people and displaced over half a million civilians in both countries, Al Jazeera reported. “Both sides agree to an immediate ceasefire from the time of signature of this Joint Statement,” the More
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced he will meet his US counterpart, Donald Trump, in Florida on Sunday, as talks continue to seek an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to media reports. Announcing the meeting on Friday, Zelensky said the discussions could be decisive, as Washington intensifies its efforts to broker a resolution More
More than 1,500 flights have been cancelled or delayed across the United States due to winter storm Devin, according to airline monitoring website FlightAware, dealing a significant blow to air travel during the peak holiday period. A total of 1,581 flights “within, into or out of” the US were cancelled and 6,883 delayed as of More
China has imposed sanctions on a group of US defence firms and senior executives in response to weapons sales to Taiwan, a media report said on Saturday. Al Jazeera reported that China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the measures on Friday, targeting 20 US defence companies and 10 individuals. The sanctions are retaliation for the More
US President Donald Trump has said the US launched a “powerful and deadly strike” against the Islamic State (IS) group in north-western Nigeria. The US leader described IS as” terrorist scum”, accusing the group of “targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians”. Trump said the US military “executed numerous perfect strikes”, while the US Africa More
At least five people have been killed and 35 others injured in an explosion at a mosque in Nigeria, a media report said on Thursday. The blast occurred at around 6:00 pm on Wednesday (17:00 GMT) in the city of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, Al Jazeera reported. Police confirmed that five people were More
At least nine people have been killed and 21 others injured after a private sleeper coach collided with a lorry in the Indian state of Karnataka, media reports said on Thursday. The accident occurred on National Highway 48 at Gorlathu Cross in Hiriyur taluk of Karnataka’s Chitradurga district when the private sleeper coach struck a More
