BIDUR, Nepal — The overwhelming stench of death is crushing hopes that more survivors will be found in this Nepalese town devastated by last week’s catastrophic floods. Workers in white hazmat suits unload bodies from a stream of ambulances in Bidur, a town in Nepal’s Nuwakot district on Tuesday. They place the wrapped bodies onto…
Kathmandu, Nepal — Five days after a rocky mountainside and the glacier it supported collapsed near Nepal’s border with Tibet, unleashing torrents of flash floodwater, mud and debris on the valleys below that swept away everything in their path, rescuers were still searching Monday for reasons to hope. Over the weekend, a 6-year-old girl was miraculously…
Satellite images show a valley of the Langtang Lirung mountain peak in Nepal on June 25, 2026, and Aug. 26, 2026, when devastating flooding struck the country. Sabrina Blanchard and Luca Matteucci/AFP/Getty Kathmandu, Nepal — Rescuers pulled out survivors caked in dark brown mud and helicopters lifted stranded people to safety Friday as Nepal and China…
The South African Post Office is trying to leave business rescue without a single committed private sector partner, without guaranteed government funding and with an unresolved statutory creditor claim that two funds are now using to oppose its exit. That was the picture that emerged on Tuesday when the Post Office, its business rescue practitioners…
Team evacuated a patient from McMurdo Station after landing plane in total darkness and temperature of -43°C.
Twenty-eight beluga whales are set to be relocated from a shuttered Canadian theme park to aquariums across the United States after federal officials approved an emergency import earlier this month as part of an international rescue effort. Marineland closed to the public in 2024 but has remained in possession of the whales, which it…
A mother and her nine-month-old baby were pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building in Venezuela by a U.S. search and rescue team assisting in the aftermath of dual earthquakes that have killed more than 1,400 people and left scores more missing. Virginia Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 1 shared a video of its…
NewsFeed Rescue workers in one Caracas neighbourhood say no help has arrived, two days after twin quakes tore through the city. Al Jazeera’s Noris Soto says aftershocks are making the search for survivors harder and rescue efforts are turning to the recovery of bodies. Published On 27 Jun 202627 Jun 2026 Click here to share…
The South African Post Office’s joint business rescue practitioners have asked the high court to end the entity’s business rescue, declaring the adopted plan substantially implemented nearly three years after the troubled state-owned company was placed under supervision. Anoosh Rooplal and Juanito Damons launched the application in the Pretoria high court on 12 June, seeking…
A SAPO office in the Eastern Cape. (Image source: SAPO via X) The South African Post Office (SAPO) is preparing to exit business rescue after its practitioners asked the High Court to terminate the proceedings. However, its long-delayed digital modernisation now rests on the shareholder and newly-appointed board after government failed to provide R3.8 billion…
