Just now Thomas Mackintosh,David Gritten Getty Damage from the strike on Sunday night became apparent the following morning At least 35 people have been killed and scores injured in an Israeli air strike on a camp for displaced Palestinians in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, the Hamas-run health ministry says. Videos from the scene…
At least 670 people are assumed to have died after a landslide in Papua New Guinea, according to a local United Nations official. The landslide hit a rural region of the island nation early Friday, but search-and-rescue efforts have been hampered by difficulty in reaching the disaster site and by the hazard that the shifting…
Chilean authorities have arrested a firefighter and a forestry worker on suspicion of starting the fire which killed at least 137 people in February. One of the men was employed by the National Forestry Corporation which is responsible for fighting forest fires, police director Eduardo Cerna said. The suspects have been remanded in custody, charged…
William J. Burns, the C.I.A. director, in March. He plans to travel to Europe for talks with his Israeli counterpart to try to revive cease-fire talks.Credit…Kent Nishimura for The New York Times William J. Burns, the C.I.A. director, who has been the lead American negotiator in efforts for a cease-fire in Gaza, plans to travel…
32 minutes ago Kelly Ng and Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Taipei,BBC News Reuters China has called its drills around Taiwan a “strong punishment” for “separatist acts” China has started two days of military exercises around Taiwan, with its military calling them “strong punishment” for the self-ruled island’s “separatist acts”. The drills come three days after the…