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21:05, 27/08/2018

A group of orcas (killer whales) were rescued and placed back into water along the Argentine coast after the tide took them ashore. The rescue effort began on Friday (August 24) and continued into the ...

18:03, 20/08/2018

Up to four planes were forced to make emergency landings in Chile and Peru on Aug. 16 due to bomb threats issued to Chilean authorities, reports say. The planes were operated by LATAM Airlines and Sky ...

20:01, 16/08/2018

SAO PAULO—Brazil’s Samarco Mineração SA expects to pay up to 2 billion reais ($512.5 million) this year to 19,000 families affected by the 2015 mining disaster in the state of Minas Gerais, the ...

15:54, 02/08/2018

A U.S. passenger aboard a flight that crashed on takeoff in northern Mexico said that a strong burst of wind and hail hit the Aeromexico jetliner, apparently knocking it back to the ground, where ther ...

20:08, 26/07/2018

SANTIAGO—The Chilean public prosecutor’s office has summoned the archbishop of Santiago to testify in an investigation into the alleged cover-up of child sexual abuse by members of the Catholic ...

16:20, 30/06/2018

A volcano erupted spewing out lava in the Galapagos Islands, threatening wildlife, officials from the Galapagos National Park said on Saturday, June 16. Dramatic television images, distributed by Gala ...

08:08, 24/06/2018

The U.S. military will soon have a sixth branch focused on warfare in space, after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on June 18 directing the Department of Defense to create the Space F ...

06:55, 18/06/2018

EL RODEO, Guatemala—A communication breakdown between a disaster agency and volcanologists in Guatemala delayed evacuations as gas and ash clouds cascaded down the Fuego volcano last Sunday in its mos ...

05:57, 07/06/2018

EDMONTON — An idea to build a gondola across Edmonton’s river valley is getting some support this week — despite criticism it would be “nice to have” rather than truly necessary. In a report goi ...

08:02, 03/09/2018

SYDNEY—The United States, Australia, France, and UK will open new embassies in the Pacific, boost staffing levels, and engage with leaders of Pacific island nations more often in a bid to counter Chin ...

08:12, 22/08/2018

SEOUL—About 90 families from North and South Korea wept and embraced on Monday as the neighbors held their first reunion events in three years for relatives wrenched apart by the Korean War for more t ...

09:38, 10/08/2018

PEMENANG, Indonesia—A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 hit Indonesia’s Lombok island on Aug. 9, causing some buildings to collapse, according to witnesses and the Southeast Asian nation ...

07:56, 06/08/2018

Thirty-nine people were killed in a suicide bombing of a Shi’ite mosque in eastern Afghanistan, and the death toll may climb further, police and government officials said on Friday. Two burka-cl ...

08:26, 01/08/2018

MANILA—An explosion inside a van killed at least 10 people at a military checkpoint in the restive southern Philippines on July 31, in what officials said may have been a bombing by extremists with ti ...

19:24, 30/07/2018

The tropical northern city of Darwin is hosting 4,000 personnel and 140 aircraft over the next three weeks as air forces from around the world take part in Exercise Pitch Black, one of Asia-Pacific ...

08:00, 23/07/2018

It has been described as the David and Goliath battle of our time. July 20 marks 19 years of brutal persecution suffered by practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual practice in Communist China. On Ju ...

13:45, 19/07/2018

After a crocodile at a breeding farm killed a man in Indonesia, a nearby village took matters into its own hands and slaughtered nearly 300 crocodiles in a revenge attack. Over the weekend, villagers ...

17:02, 17/07/2018

WASHINGTON–Fallout from the U.S.–China trade war will not seriously affect Taiwan, which has spent a few years diversifying its economy away from the politically hostile mainland and investing in Sout ...

14:42, 11/07/2018

TOKYO—The death toll from unprecedented rains in Japan rose to at least 64 on July 8 after rivers burst their banks and forced several million people from their homes, media reports said, with more ra ...

17:08, 10/07/2018

CHIANG RAI, Thailand—Four of 12 schoolboys have been rescued so far from a flooded Thai cave after divers launched a daring and dangerous mission to free the children and their soccer coach, who were ...

14:19, 09/07/2018

TOKYO—At least 50 people were missing and four in critical condition as torrential rain that has killed 38 people pounds western and central Japan, public broadcaster NHK said on Saturday, with more t ...

17:25, 06/07/2018

JAKARTA—At least 29 people died after a ferry sank near Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, officials said on July 4, as rescue teams searched for dozens of missing passengers a day after the country&# ...

10:48, 05/07/2018

A volcano on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali erupted twice on Monday. Mount Agung’s first eruption, which occurred at around 6:19 a.m., lasted three minutes and 47 seconds. The second erup ...

17:48, 02/07/2018

DENPASAR, Indonesia—The airport on Indonesia’s holiday island of Bali reopened on Friday after ash from a volcano forced a brief closure and the cancellation of more than 300 flights. Mount Agun ...

06:04, 27/06/2018

Officials in Singapore are denying claims that they issued USB devices to reporters during the June 12 Trump–Kim summit that infected equipment with spying malware, but concerns still stand. More than ...

08:13, 18/06/2018

TAIPEI—Taiwan prosecutors indicted the spokesman for a pro-China political party and two other party members for allegedly seeking to recruit Taiwan military officers on behalf of China and violating ...

05:50, 09/06/2018

KUALA LUMPUR–Malaysia is seeking to arrest financier Low Taek Jho, believed to be residing abroad, over his involvement in a graft scandal at state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), Prime Mini ...

16:49, 06/09/2018

Trudeau says he won’t use ‘tricks’ to ram through pipeline construction Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pouring cold water on Alberta’s suggestion that the federal government use legislation or a cou ...

08:32, 28/08/2018

A U.S. fantasy drama The Shape of Water,  about a woman who falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature, led the Oscar nominations this year with 13 nods, including the top prize for bes ...

08:23, 24/08/2018

Police in York Region, Canada, released a video that shows the apparent abduction of a woman at 2:50 a.m. in Richmond Hill, located north of Toronto. The woman can be seen ringing a doorbell at a home ...

13:07, 18/08/2018

Haze engulfed parts of Canada on Aug. 14 and 15, as British Columbia endured raging wildfires forcing more than 3,000 to evacuate their homes. A state of emergency was declared by the provincial gover ...

18:40, 04/08/2018

A woman who ordered a latte at a McDonald’s in Lethbridge, Alberta, found herself with a cup of what turned out to be cleaning fluid. Sarah Douglas stopped by the University Drive West McDonald’s in L ...

16:47, 24/07/2018

TORONTO—The Sunday night Toronto mass shooting suspect has been identified as Faisal Hussain, a 29-year-old resident of Toronto, Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit has revealed. “A short time ago, ...

17:12, 22/06/2018

FREDERICTON—The official languages commissioner in New Brunswick—Canada’s only officially bilingual province—says the government still isn’t getting it right. Katherine d’Entremont i ...

08:30, 19/06/2018

CALGARY — Sonia Scurfield, the only Canadian woman to have her name engraved on the Stanley Cup, has died at Foothills Hospital in Calgary at the age of 89. Her death was announced late Thursday by Su ...

06:53, 08/06/2018

Chief Ernie Crey of Sto:lo Nation on talks with the Trudeau government over the pipeline. ...

06:51, 08/06/2018

Kudlow: US trade dispute with Canada a ‘family quarrel’ U.S. senior economic adviser Larry Kudlow calls his country’s trade dispute with Canada little more than a “family quarrel.” K ...

15:02, 05/09/2018

GENEVA—People smugglers are taking greater risks to ferry their human cargo toward Europe as Libya’s coast guard intercepts more and more boats carrying migrants, increasing the likelihood that ...

20:11, 23/08/2018

BENGALURU—The euro zone economy will muddle through this year and next with steady but modest growth in a slowdown from 2017, according to economists in a Reuters poll, which shows a majority expectin ...

13:03, 14/08/2018

Romania’s government faces renewed pressure over its controversial overhaul of the judiciary after hundreds of protesters who oppose the changes were injured in clashes with riot police, the first tim ...

12:04, 31/07/2018

Greece will begin burying the victims this weekend of a devastating wildfire near Athens which killed at least 88 people and raised recriminations over the government’s handling of the disaster. ...

20:39, 28/07/2018

MATI, Greece—Greece said on Thursday, July 27, it suspected arson was behind a devastating forest fire which killed at least 83 people and turned the small town of Mati east of Athens into a wasteland ...

16:38, 27/07/2018

ATHENS—When the wind whipping wildfire through the pine forests around the Greek coastal village of Mati suddenly changed direction on Monday afternoon, it left residents with perhaps 20 minutes to sa ...

14:24, 21/07/2018

At least 19 died and 103 people were rescued Wednesday when a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of northern Cyprus. Rescuers are now searching for 25 other people. Turkey’s coast guard said th ...

17:07, 20/07/2018

STOCKHOLM—Forest fires are raging out of control across Sweden after one of the hottest and driest summers in decades. So far, no casualties have been reported, but thousands of people are being evacu ...

06:01, 13/07/2018

The Kremlin said on July 9 it was sorry that Dawn Sturgess died in hospital after being exposed to Novichok and added that it was “quite absurd” to link Russia to the poisoning. British po ...

00:32, 04/07/2018

BERLIN—Germany’s intelligence service acknowledged on Friday, June 29, that it had employed the daughter of top Nazi Heinrich Himmler in the 1960s, although she never renounced her father or Naz ...

07:51, 28/06/2018

Dozens of people were injured in an explosion at an apartment block in western Germany, according to reports on Sunday. Police said the explosion took place at a building in Wuppertal, injuring 25 peo ...

15:56, 20/06/2018

A van struck four people at the Netherlands’ largest music festival, Pinkpop, around 4 a.m. on Monday, June 18. The van killed one and injured the other three before driving off, according to po ...

18:39, 11/06/2018

BERLIN—Germany has suggested the creation of a Europe-wide unemployment insurance system to make the euro zone more resilient to future economic shocks, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said in an intervi ...

13:11, 21/08/2018

Southern India has been hit by horrible flooding during the summer monsoon season. The southwestern state of Kerala has been particularly hard-hit, with 209 people killed since Aug. 8, according to th ...

08:39, 11/08/2018

Fallout from the U.S.–China trade dispute is being felt in India, with the country recently putting measures in place to blunt an influx of cheap Chinese textile imports that could threaten domestic p ...

07:26, 08/08/2018

Fourteen communists were killed during a clash with security forces in India on Aug. 6. The Maoists opened fire on the forces as the team searched the forests in the Sukma district in the tribal regio ...

08:45, 18/07/2018

MUMBAI—Police in India have arrested more than two dozen men who were part of a mob that lynched a 32-year-old man after rumors spread over WhatsApp that he was a child-kidnapper, police said on Sunda ...

10:11, 16/07/2018

A group of 26 underage girls was rescued from human traffickers in India after a concerned train passenger alerted authorities via Twitter. The passenger, identified as Adarsh Shrivastava, was traveli ...

07:25, 03/07/2018

Forty-eight people have died after a bus plunged into a gorge in India, highlighting the country’s notorious road safety issues. The bus, which was overcrowded, fell into a 700-foot-deep gorge in the ...

08:53, 13/06/2018

Two new cases of the deadly brain-damaging Nipah virus have been confirmed in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where another two people were killed by the virus, a health official said on Thursday ...

10:02, 11/06/2018

A dying dad fulfilled his wish of seeing his daughter at her “wedding” in a mock ceremony, all thanks to the efforts of a photographer who was made aware of the family’s tragic situation. ...

07:08, 04/09/2018

MOSCOW—A Russian passenger plane ran off an airport runway outside Russia’s southern city of Sochi early on Saturday and caught fire injuring 18 people, officials and state media reported. Russi ...

10:31, 29/08/2018

The U.S. State Department on Aug. 24 said it would push for foreign postal carriers to pay the U.S. Postal Service more to deliver small parcels within the United States, taking up a longtime complain ...

16:06, 13/08/2018

BUCHAREST—Tens of thousands of protesters rallied against the ruling Social Democrat (PSD) government on Friday in cities across Romania and the capital Bucharest where riot police fired tear gas into ...

07:17, 09/08/2018

CHICAGO—Eleven U.S. passengers who survived an Aeromexico crash in the northern Mexican state of Durango on July 31 filed lawsuits against the airline in Chicago on Aug. 6, according to a statement by ...

09:46, 25/07/2018

Israeli military forces shot down a Syrian warplane near the border of Israel and Syria, with Israel saying that the jet went into its airspace. Syria said that the jet was fired upon as it took part ...

17:29, 22/06/2018

LIMA, Peru—In Lima, every interaction is dotted by smiles and ends with hugs. The historic Plaza de Armas, with its pretty colonial architecture, is a tourist draw, and the changing of the guards at t ...

16:38, 21/06/2018

The United States withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday, saying the organization was not worthy of its name. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Ambassador to the United ...

15:29, 14/06/2018

President Trump showed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a video resembling a movie trailer in preparation for their meeting. He played the video for the press after the historic meeting in Singapore, w ...

10:39, 07/06/2018

The June 12 meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will take place on a private island in Singapore, according to White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders. Sanders ...

11:07, 01/09/2018

PARIS/BAGHDAD—Iran has given ballistic missiles to Shi’ite proxies in Iraq and is developing the capacity to build more there to deter attacks on its interests in the Middle East and to give it ...

09:09, 30/08/2018

MOSUL, Iraq—Iraqi grandmother Sana Ibrahim al-Taee has a full-time job feeding and clothing her 22 grandchildren after the ISIS terrorist group killed their fathers—her sons—a struggle in a cramped fl ...

10:49, 17/08/2018

A suspected ISIS member was arrested in Sacramento, California, on Aug. 15 after he was wanted for the 2014 murder of a police officer, officials said in a statement. Omar Ameen, 45, an Iraqi national ...

15:09, 07/08/2018

The United States will reimpose a broad set of sanctions on the Iranian regime on Aug. 7, executing a plan set in motion by President Donald Trump when he withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal three mon ...

08:01, 15/07/2018

At least 55 people were injured Friday when a passenger train derailed near Egypt’s capital Cairo, an assistant to the health minister said. “Most of the injuries are minor,” Ahmed Mohei said, Reuters ...

05:50, 12/07/2018

ISTANBUL—Twenty-four people were killed in northwest Turkey when a train headed for Istanbul derailed following heavy rain and a landslide, authorities said on Monday, making it the worst train disast ...

17:20, 08/07/2018

Saudi Arabia is working with the Trump administration to fight terrorism, and on July 4 Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman met with the U.S. Special Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS. ...

08:00, 07/07/2018

Air strikes were reported across rebel-held areas in southern Syria on Wednesday, forcing three hospitals to shut down. On Thursday, 46 people died, including children, in Daraa province, Syrian War D ...

16:12, 26/06/2018

ANKARA—Tayyip Erdogan won Turkey’s presidential election on Sunday, the head of the country’s electoral body said, overcoming the biggest electoral challenge to his rule in a decade and a ...

15:24, 23/06/2018

The frequency of large-scale protests in Iran against its ruling regime has been increasing, and lately, they have taken on a pro-U.S. stance. In a video from a June 20 protest in Abadan, Iran, a grou ...

16:48, 15/06/2018

BAGHDAD–A storage site housing half of Baghdad’s ballot boxes from Iraq’s parliamentary election in May caught fire on Sunday, just days after parliament demanded a nationwide recount of v ...