The country's tourism board says 291 o those missing are foreign nationals.
Dozens have died and hundreds were reported missing, including 341 foreign tourists. Rescue helicopters have been unable to land in affected areas due to high floodwaters.
Citizens from more than 30 countries are among the nearly 1,400 people reported missing after flash floods and landslides at the Nepal-Tibet border.
A tornado swept through a village in southwestern France last night, destroying homes and injuring 39 people, authorities said, describing it as a rare and traumatic event.
Major flash flooding in the Grand Canyon has forced evacuations from the tourist hotspot.
Iran has said that it has targeted more than a dozen ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the United States sank five Iranian oil tankers.
Trump said earlier that Tehran was not ready to make the right deal
US forces targeted Iranian rocket launchers near the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz.
Iran on Saturday denounced U.S. plans to announce new sanctions that could put further strain on the Islamic Republic’s economy and have an impact on its most important trading partners including China. After nearly six months of war since the U.S. and Israel launched airstrikes against Iran on February 28, the sides are not firing […]
Iran's Finance Minister argued that the new punitive measures would fail.
Households and businesses have become used to tariffs impacting the cost of living for more than year now, so what will change now?
Republican members of Congress are publicly backing U.S. President Donald Trump in his trade war with Canada and blaming Prime Minister Mark Carney's government for walking away from negotiations.
Donald Trump's satirical double has beaten him to Dublin, as Ireland prepares to welcome the US president.
The move is the latest in the ongoing rift between the US and Canada. The US president has also tried to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America" in the past. Canadian PM Carney has said nothing will change.
US President Donald Trump has announced an agreement with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of oil. The South American country has the world's largest proven oil reserves, but production has long stalled.
Dolly Parton was one of the rare celebrities that transcended divides in the United States. The country music legend and actress died, aged 80, on August 25.
The US state department has declined to comment on the number of visas that may be revoked.
US and South Korean forces began on Monday joint military drills as planned, despite Donald Trump calling for them to be scaled back. Trump said the exercises were too costly and hostile toward North Korea, while critics warned reducing them could weaken South Korea’s security. The drills are set to continue until August 28.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe visited Russia to attend meetings in Moscow on Tuesday, according to two US media outlets, in what is believed to be Ratcliffe's first known trip to Russia since taking over as US spy chief. The reported visit comes as US-brokered talks aimed at ending the Ukraine war have stalled.
The US has imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court's president and a senior trial lawyer at the court, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said.
Meta Platforms on Wednesday agreed to pay $17 billion to settle claims, filed by 47 US states, that the company designed Facebook and Instagram to deliberately make teens addicted to their products while deceiving the public, according to state attorneys general. The company agreed to add child-safety measures as part of the settlement.
Hayden Panettiere's death was announced by her father in a statement to US network ABC news. The actress was known for her roles in TV shows such as "Nashville" and "Heroes."
Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the U.S. in the next 12 months, with an initial group of 20 deportees expected to arrive on Thursday, the government said in a statement.
The Prince of Wales will represent the King at the funeral of Harald V in Oslo next week.
Norway’s King Harald, a reformer who emerged from the shadow of his well-loved, extrovert father over more than three decades on the throne, died on Friday at the age of 89, the royal palace said, at a time of multiple crises for the Norwegian royal family. “King Harald passed away peacefully at Oslo University Hospital […]
Russian air attacks have killed 12 people and injured many more in Kyiv and the surrounding region, authorities have said.
Zelenskiy said on Friday the two men would fly to Ukraine on Sunday after visiting Moscow
Ukraine's ousted defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov has called for wartime elections in the biggest internal challenge to President Volodymyr Zelensky since Russia's invasion.
The country's tourism board says 291 o those missing are foreign nationals.
Dozens have died and hundreds were reported missing, including 341 foreign tourists. Rescue helicopters have been unable to land in affected areas due to high floodwaters.
Citizens from more than 30 countries are among the nearly 1,400 people reported missing after flash floods and landslides at the Nepal-Tibet border.
Authorities in Nepal on Tuesday said that rescuers are focusing on three hydropower project tunnels where they believe dozens of workers could be trapped. The announcement came two weeks after a devastating flood killed that hundreds and left thousands missing in the Himalayan country and in neighbouring China's Tibet region.
Households and businesses have become used to tariffs impacting the cost of living for more than year now, so what will change now?
Republican members of Congress are publicly backing U.S. President Donald Trump in his trade war with Canada and blaming Prime Minister Mark Carney's government for walking away from negotiations.
Dozens have died and hundreds were reported missing, including 341 foreign tourists. Rescue helicopters have been unable to land in affected areas due to high floodwaters.
The move is the latest in the ongoing rift between the US and Canada. The US president has also tried to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America" in the past. Canadian PM Carney has said nothing will change.
BBC correspondent Katy Watson reports from Jerusalem.
Two Palestinians were killed Friday in the West Bank, one in Jenin, in the north, by Israeli army gunfire, and the other in the southern part of the territory by a settler, according to Palestinian sources and the army.
The disruptions are estimated to have impacted more than 270,000 passengers.
Hundreds of homes and public buildings have been severely damaged with at least 53 people killed.
Berlin is set to formally blame Russia for an incident involving drones at a strategic airport on the night of August 4-5, including one that was found carrying explosives. Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul and Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt are expected to accuse a Russian intelligence service of being behind the incident. It would be the first time Germany formally blames Moscow for an incident like this one.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe visited Russia to attend meetings in Moscow on Tuesday, according to two US media outlets, in what is believed to be Ratcliffe's first known trip to Russia since taking over as US spy chief. The reported visit comes as US-brokered talks aimed at ending the Ukraine war have stalled.
A 43-year-old Swiss man was arrested on "strong suspicion" of being behind a deadly gun attack at a rave in Switzerland, police said.
Several people were killed and others injured in a tourist bush crash near the alpine village of Susch in Switzerland's eastern canton of Graubünden.
A fire erupted in a maternity ward in Pakistan's capital this morning, killing 14 children, the Islamabad district office said.
The court directed that Khan be moved to Shifa International Hospital.
Israeli strikes in the central Gaza Strip killed three people, including a child, on Sunday, according to rescuers. The strikes came two days after a Palestinian teenager was killed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank following a rock-throwing incident.
Israeli strikes killed four people, including two women, in southern Lebanon on Sunday, the Lebanese Health Ministry said, as Israel retaliated for what it said were Hezbollah drone attacks within areas occupied by its troops.
The Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo is now the deadliest in the country's history, according to the latest government data, with 2,235 reported killed from the virus. Confirmed cases have risen to 4,945, including 101 new cases detected in the last 24 hours, Congo's public health institute said.
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan plan to move back to Britain this month, six years after they stepped down from their royal duties and relocated to the U.S., a source close to the couple said. The surprise move comes after the couple spent recent years repeatedly criticising the royal family and lambasting the British […]
It comes after Trump moved to "substantially reduce" US participation in military drills with South Korea, citing his "very good relationship" with North Korea's leader.
Tim Curry, the British character actor who created a gallery of flamboyant villains for stage and screen, most famously Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1975 cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", has died at the age of 80, his manager said on Wednesday.
Israeli media reported that the UAE contacted Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu before the October 7, 2023 attacks, warning him that Hamas was planning a major operation. The prime minister has rejected the reports.
UAE commercial flights to and from Algiers will be exempt from the ban until the end of 2026.
Icelanders are to vote Saturday on whether to resume entry talks with the European Union amid growing global insecurity, in a referendum seen as going down to the wire.
Officials say another three people were injured, and an 18-year-old male suspect shot and arrested.
At least five people have died after a cargo plane crashed at Miami International Airport. The aircraft overran a runway, struck several vehicles and caught fire.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said a rush of migrants to the enclave of Ceuta a month ago was still under investigation, while denouncing "fake information" spread by the "ultra-right".
The mine collapse happened on Tuesday in the village of Zamboye, near the border with Cameroon.
The crash may have been caused by the driver falling asleep, say authorities.
A tornado swept through a village in southwestern France last night, destroying homes and injuring 39 people, authorities said, describing it as a rare and traumatic event.
Police suspect that a train derailment in northwest France yesterday that injured 44 people, one gravely, was the result of sabotage.
A search and rescue operation is under way after a ferry carrying nearly 270 people turns over after leaving port.
Spanish opposition parties accuse Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of abandoning the residents of Ceuta.
Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide for orchestrating the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of at least 8,000 Muslims in Europe's worst atrocity since the Second World War, has died.
At least five people died and dozens were unaccounted for Thursday after a ferry caught fire off the Philippine island province of Palawan, with 43 passengers and crew rescued so far. Coast guard teams continued search and rescue operations as officials worked to establish what happened.
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi rebels have seized control of the country's entire Red Sea coast, a government official said on Friday. The move inches the rebels closer to gaining near total control of the Bab al-Mandab strait, a vital shipping corridor. Read about the day’s events as they unfolded on our liveblog.
Two days after a deadly landfill collapse in Guinea, rescuers are using giant excavators to search for victims. Anger is rising among residents, who say they had warned authorities that the rubbish dump was precarious.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is cancelling its planned exhibit honouring British designer John Galliano, which had led to severe backlash in the Jewish community and beyond because of the designer's past antisemitic and racist statements.
The government faces opposition to its proposals from MPs who believe a ban will not work.
The jury deliberated for three hours following a nine-day trial in Las Vegas.