At least 44 people have been killed and nearly 300 others are missing after a massive fire broke out in an apartment complex in Hong Kong, media reports said on Thursday. Reuters quoted police as saying that the huge fire — still burning in a Hong Kong apartment complex — may have been intensified by More

The Trump administration suspended all immigration applications from Afghan nationals with immediate effect on Wednesday night following a shooting in Washington, D.C., that critically injured two National Guard members from West Virginia. US President Donald Trump said the suspect in the attack entered the country from Afghanistan in 2021, according to reports. The two West More

Three Pakistani security forces were killed and five others wounded in an attack on a security compound affiliated with the Pakistani paramilitary forces in Peshawar on Monday, media reports said. The attackers opened fire as they forced themselves into the headquarters of the frontier constabulary in Peshawar city before blowing themselves up inside the complex, More

Vietnam’s Ministry of Environment has announced that the death toll from severe flooding and days of heavy rainfall has risen to 90 people. According to The Guardian, citing the Ministry of Environment, the floods have been ongoing since last week across several regions, particularly in the central parts of the country. At least 12 people More

At least 15 people were killed and several others injured on Friday as a result of a gas explosion at a factory near Faisalabad’s Malikpur area in Pakistan’s Punjab province Rescue 1122 said the incident took place early in the morning after the boiler of the factory exploded, causing the collapse of the building and More

More than 170 buildings were destroyed after a fire swept through a coastal city in southern Japan, forcing dozens of residents to evacuate to emergency shelters, according to a media report on Wednesday. Reuters, citing Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency, reported that around 175 residents of the Saganoseki district in Oita City — located More

Pakistani opposition parties’ alliance on Tuesday staged a march from Parliament House to Supreme Court against the newly enacted 27th Amendment. The 27th Amendment was signed into law on November 13 after passage from the parliament amid strong criticism by the opposition parties. The legislation, which has brought major structural changes to the judiciary and More

At least 12 people were killed and more than 10 others injured after a passenger bus overturned in the Simiatug area in central Ecuador, according to reports. Reuters said the incident was confirmed by Ecuador’s National Risk Management Service in a social media announcement, noting that the crash occurred on Monday. The bus was traveling More

At least 45 Indian Umrah pilgrims were killed and one person wounded after a bus collided with a fuel tanker near Madina Munawwara in Saudi Arabia on Monday, a media report said. The Hindustan Times reported the devastating incident occurred at around 1:30am (India time) in the Mufrehat area, about 160 kilometres from Madina Munawwara. More

Indonesia’s disaster management agency says a landslide triggered by heavy rainfall in Central Java province has killed nearly a dozen people. According to a Reuters report, another 12 people remain missing and rescue teams are searching for them. Abdul Muhari, spokesperson for the National Disaster Management Agency, said: “Eleven bodies have been recovered — three More