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A powerful earthquake in northern Afghanistan has killed at least 20 people and injured about 320, the Taliban health ministry said on Monday. The 6.3-magnitude quake also caused widespread damage to buildings across Balkh and Samangan provinces. The U…
There have been a series of unprecedented protests in the global south led by gen Z, the demographic cohort born between 1997 and 2012. These uprisings have led to deadly crackdowns, scores of arrests and new leaders coming into power. From Nepal to M…
Sanae Takaichi has made history by becoming Japan’s first female prime minister, receiving 237 votes in parliament’s 465-seat lower house and winning a similar slim majority in the less powerful upper house. Her victory was secured after her Liberal De…
Delhi awoke to a thick haze the morning after the Diwali festival, when people across the country let off fireworks and firecrackers to celebrate the festival of lights. It marked the beginning of the pollution season, which has become an annual blight…
Fisheries minister says rehoming Marineland’s cetaceans in China would only ‘perpetuate the treatment’ the whales have enduredCanada’s government has refused a request by the beleaguered Marineland theme park to export its remaining 30 beluga whales to…
At least 60 people were reported dead by civil defence officials in the Philippines as a quake struck off Bogo, a city near the northern tip of the populous island of Cebu, late on Tuesday. Rescue teams worked through the night in an attempt to find su…
A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 shook central Philippines on Tuesday night, sending people dashing out into streets, damaging a stone church and knocking out power in some areas. The earthquake was centred about 17km (10 miles) north-east o…
At least one student died and 65 are believed to be buried under the rubble after the prayer hall at Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in the East Java town of Sidoarjo collapsed on Monday. Families of the students gathered at hospitals or near the co…
Polish athlete Andrzej Bargiel, 37, is the first person to climb up and ski down Mount Everest without bottled oxygen. It took him four days to ascend from base camp and two days to ski back down Polish climber makes history skiing down Everest without…
Super Typhoon Ragasa has caused widespread flooding and damaged roads in Hong Kong, which resumed international flights on Thursday but kept kindergartens and some schools closed. Ragasa, the strongest storm so far this year, killed 14 people in Taiwan…
Drone footage shows the scale of devastation in the Taiwanese town of Guangfu after flooding caused a barrier lake to overflow, unleashing a wall of water, washing away a bridge and killing at least 14 people. While it has stopped raining, the governme…
A large sinkhole opened up outside a hospital in the Thai capital on Wednesday. Social media footage shows power lines being pulled down into the 50-metre-deep hole and vehicles teetering on the edge. Officials said there were no casualties.Suriyachai …
Deadly floods have crashed through Taiwan’s Hualien county as a barrier lake burst its banks, leaving 124 people missing as the typhoon continues its path. Hong Kong and parts of southern China were on high alert, forcing Chinese authorities to shut do…
Drone shots showed flooding in a Philippine town north of the capital, Manila, after heavy rain from Super Typhoon Ragasa hit the area. The country’s president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, ordered the country’s disaster response agency to go on full alert and…
Barbie and Peter Reynolds have been freed after being detained without charge by the Taliban in Afghanistan since February, where for a long period they were separated and held in a maximum-security prison. The couple had lived in Afghanistan for nearl…