Communities across the Australian state of Queensland are bracing for more rain after record-breaking floods cut off roads and inundated vast areas of the region’s outback. Several areas in western Queensland have recorded their worst…
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Unanswered phones and a desperate wait outside the shattered Bangkok high-rise toppled by Myanmar quake
by adminAnxious loved ones waited outside a twisted mass of metal and concrete in the heart of Thailand’s capital on Saturday as rescuers searched for dozens of missing workers and the city confronted the aftermath of…
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Voices are starting to emerge from quake devastated Myanmar. Here’s what we are hearing
by adminA powerful, deadly earthquake struck at the heart of civil war-ravaged Myanmar on Friday, piling fresh misery on an impoverished nation that was cut off from much of the world even before this natural disaster…
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Ecuador is preparing for US forces, plans show, as Noboa calls for help battling gangs
by adminAccording to a high-level Ecuadorian official familiar with the planning, construction of a new naval facility in the coastal city of Manta is part of that preparation, with barracks-style housing and administration offices designed to…
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Australia to hold general elections on May 3 amid inflation and a housing shortage
by adminAustralians will go to the polls on May 3 for general elections with high costs of living and a shortage of housing likely weighing against the government as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s center-left Labor Party…
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King Charles cancels engagements after experiencing temporary side effects of cancer treatment
by adminBritain’s King Charles “required a short period of observation in hospital” on Thursday after experiencing “temporary side effects” from a scheduled cancer treatment in the morning, Buckingham Palace has said. “His Majesty has now returned…
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European leaders say now not the time to liftsanctions on Russia in message to Trump
by adminUkraine’s European allies say now is not the time for lifting sanctions on Russia, after Moscow said it would only agree to a US-brokered deal on ending fighting in the Black Sea if some sanctions…
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Several killed after submarine carrying Russian tourists sinks off Egyptian coast, embassy says
by adminFour people were killed Thursday when a tourist submarine sank off Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Hurghada, according to a Facebook post by the Russian embassy in Egypt. It is unclear if all four…
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India among top suppliers of illicit fentanyl precursors, US intelligence report says
by adminIndia has emerged as a growing player in the illicit fentanyl trade, a new US intelligence report says, a designation likely to raise alarm in New Delhi as President Donald Trump wields tariffs on countries…
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It’s been 30 years, but Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka still remembers the first time she ever saw a mountain gorilla. It was the summer of 1994. Deep in the jungle of Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park,…