National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez says 6,125 people confirmed dead as government response faces scrutiny. Published On 3 Aug 20263 Aug 2026 The Venezuelan government has announced that the confirmed death toll from a pair of heavy earthquakes that struck the country in June has risen to 6,125 people. National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez announced…
Kumamoto, Japan — Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 18 people in southwestern Japan. The powerful earthquake that hit a day earlier in the Kumamoto area on the southern main island of Kyushu, also left…
Police say another three schoolchildren have succumbed to their injuries since Thursday’s accident. Published On 18 Jul 202618 Jul 2026 Three more schoolchildren have died from injuries sustained during a fatal bus crash in eastern Uganda, raising the death toll to 23 children and one adult, police said. A bus carrying dozens of pupils and…
People pass by The Spheres in downtown Seattle, Washington, on June 25, 2025. Juan Mabromata | AFP | Getty Images On an early morning in January, Jake Linsley woke up to a text from Amazon that was lighting up his phone. “I thought it was saying, ‘Your package is delayed,’” Linsley said in an interview….
The situation is growing more desperate by the hour in Venezuela as people dig through the rubble of collapsed homes and apartment buildings three days after twin earthquakes struck the country. Jorge Rodriguez, the president of the National Assembly, said Saturday afternoon the death toll has risen to 1,430. Another 3,238 people are injured, he…
Communities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring Uganda are on high alert following a deadly outbreak of Bundibugyo Ebola virus that has already killed at least 134 people. Health officials say the outbreak is evolving rapidly, with dozens of new infections reported within the last 48 hours. The situation has also drawn international…
A senior Qatari official, who has worked for years in the Gulf state’s ministry of foreign affairs, told CBS News on Wednesday that the Middle East has, “for all intents and purposes,” been engulfed in a regional war that governments in the region warned about for years. Dr. Majed Al-Ansari, an adviser to the Qatari…
Soroush Negahdari,BBC Monitoringand Ghoncheh Habibiazad,BBC Persian WANA via REUTERS Iranian authorities responded with lethal force as the protests in Tehran escalated on 8 January “My friends are all like me. We all know someone who was killed in the protests.” For Parisa, a 29-year-old from Tehran, the crackdown by security forces in Iran earlier this…
When COVID hit, healthcare systems around the world were turned upside down. Hospitals cleared beds, routine appointments were cancelled and people were told to stay at home unless it was urgent. In England, visits to family doctors and hospital admissions for non-COVID reasons fell by a third in the early months of the pandemic. Medical…
Spain began three days of national mourning on Tuesday for 41 people killed after two high-speed trains collided in the country’s deadliest rail disaster in over a decade. The collision took place late Sunday when a high-speed train operated by rail company Iryo, travelling from Malaga to Madrid, derailed near Adamuz in the southern Andalusia region….
