Multiple casualties are feared in New Orleans after a vehicle reportedly drove into a crowd on the popular Bourbon Street, the BBC’s US news partner CBS has reported. A New Orleans Police spokesman said that “initial reports show a car may have ploughed into a group of people” in the early hours of New Year’s […]
(Refiles removing garbled text in advisory) By Mariya Gordeyeva ASTANA (Reuters) -An Embraer passenger plane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday with 62 passengers and five crew on board, Kazakh authorities announced, saying that 28 people had survived. Unverified video of the crash showed the plane, […]
Watch: Cars smashed and walls knocked down following Mayotte cyclone The search for survivors on the Mayotte archipelago continued on Sunday after a cyclone devastated the French Indian Ocean territory. It is feared the eventual death toll could stretch into the thousands once the damage is fully assessed and with rescue workers still working to […]
Early on the morning of December 8, Suhail AlGhazi did the unthinkable: He spoke with his family in Syria openly, and without fear. AlGhazi fled Syria in 2013 after taking part in early protests against the regime of Bashar al-Assad and surviving two brutal and terrifying stints in prison. Now living in Europe, he has […]
Police in New Zealand say they believe three men who went missing days ago on Aoraki Mt Cook – the country’s tallest mountain – are dead. Americans Kurt Blair, 56, and Carlos Romero, 50, and an unnamed Canadian national were reported missing on Monday when they failed to meet their flight out from the mountain. […]
Russia’s embassy in Sudan has said it is investigating reports that a cargo plane with Russian crew was shot down in Darfur, a key battle ground in the civil war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The aircraft, identified as a Russian-made lyushin Il-76, was on a mission to deliver equipment […]
Russia’s embassy in Sudan has said it is investigating reports that a cargo plane with Russian crew was shot down in Darfur, a key battle ground in the civil war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The aircraft, identified as a Russian-made lyushin Il-76, was on a mission to deliver equipment […]
A bus carrying dozens of primary school children has crashed and caught fire just outside the Thai capital of Bangkok. Sixteen children and three teachers are reported to have escaped, but 22 pupils and three teachers are still unaccounted for, according to the country’s transport minister. Thailand’s prime minister said the accident resulted in “deaths […]
