PALU (Indonesia): Indonesian volunteers began burying bodies in a mass grave with space for more than a thousand people yesterday, victims of a quake-tsunami that
JAKARTA: Some 1,200 Indonesian convicts are on the run from three different detention facilities in devastated Sulawesi after the region was rocked by a powerful
JAKARTA: Indonesia was struck by a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake yesterday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of deaths or
GENEVA: The UN Human Rights Council voted on Thursday to set up a panel to prepare criminal indictments over atrocities committed in Myanmar, amid allegations
MAJURO (Marshall Islands): Passengers were forced to swim for their lives yesterday when an airliner ditched into a lagoon after missing the runway on a
TOKYO: A large, very strong typhoon churned towards Japan yesterday, with the weather agency warning the storm would rip through the nation over the weekend,
OTTAWA: A tornado sparked chaos near the Canadian capital Ottawa on Friday, injuring dozens as homes were damaged, cars flipped over, and over 130,000 people
TEHRAN: Militants attacked a military parade in southwestern Iran yesterday, killing at least eight troops and wounding some 20 others, state media reported. “Eight to
NAIROBI: The death toll after a ferry capsized in Lake Victoria has risen to 151, state-run TV station TBC said yesterday as rescue workers pressed
NAIROBI: The death toll in a ferry capsize in Lake Victoria climbed to more than 100 yesterday, as Tanzanian rescue workers pressed on with searches
