Large pumps sucked water from a flooded coal mine in Mexico on Sunday (August 7) as authorities weighed whether to…
Grain ship from Ukraine inspected ahead of docking at Turkish port
A ship carrying 12,000 tonnes of corn from Ukraine was inspected by officials from the Joint Coordination Center (JCC) on…
Beluga whale refusing food after straying into France’s Seine river
Concerns are rising for a beluga whale which has been spotted in France’s river Seine, far from the cold Arctic…
Israel and Palestinian militants declare Gaza truce
Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group declared a truce late on Sunday, raising hopes of an end to the…
With Taiwan drills, Xi tries to salvage Pelosi crisis
Chinese President Xi Jinping may not have been able to stop Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, but he ordered his…
Greek PM to make a public statement on phone-tapping scandal on Monday
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday will make a public statement on the phone-tapping scandal that has rocked the…
Ukraine power plant shelled again, Zelenskiy rails at Russian ‘nuclear terror’
Ukraine said on Sunday that renewed Russian shelling had damaged three radiation sensors and hurt a worker at the Zaporizhzhia…
Major fire spreads at Cuban fuel storage facility hit by lightning
A fuel storage tank near Cuba’s supertanker port in Matanzas exploded on Saturday morning (August 6) following a blaze which…
At least twelve Poles killed, 31 injured in Croatia bus crash
Twelve people were killed and 31 injured, 18 of them seriously, when a Polish bus filled with religious pilgrims slipped…
Hiroshima prays for peace, fears new arms race on atomic bombing anniversary
Bells tolled in Hiroshima on Saturday (August 6) as the city marked the 77th anniversary of the world’s first atomic…