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A magnitude 5.1 earthquake hit near the Mexican resort town of Acapulco on the Pacific coast on Saturday afternoon, according to the country's ...

One person is dead and five others were injured in a shooting after at least one person pulled out a gun and began firing as a subway train pulled ...

Nuclear energy operator EDF has shut down two reactors at Chinon in western France after a fire in a non-nuclear sector of the plant in the early ...

A gunman dead four people and injured one on Friday after opening fire at a market in the Georgian city of Rustavi, 20 kilometres (12 miles) from ...

Two bomb explosions have killed at least 20 people in Pakistan's Balochistan province on the eve of general elections, officials say.The first blast ...

The death toll from raging wildfires in Chile has risen to at least 112 people, with hundreds more missing, authorities have said. President ...

Forest fires raging in central Chile have killed at least 64 people and the death toll is likely to keep climbing, according to local authorities, ...

At least 46 people have been killed by forest fires in Chile, the country's president has said.The mayor of Viña del Mar, a coastal tourist ...

The U.S. military launched airstrikes on Friday in Iraq and Syria against more than 85 targets linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) and the ...

Israel carried out several strikes in southern Damascus on Friday, no one was injured. Syrian news outlets blame Israel for the strikes. Official ...

Multiple agencies are responding to a gas pipeline explosion in the Oklahoma panhandle. It happened before 9:45 p.m. at NS 154 Rd and EW 29 Rd in ...

The U.S. Central Command said early Saturday its forces struck an anti-ship missile it said was in Houthi-held territory and "aimed into the Red Sea ...

Alabama executed convicted murderer Kenneth Smith by asphyxiating him with nitrogen gas on Thursday, the first use of a new method of capital ...

The earthquake in Almaty was measured 6.7 on the scale, Kazakhstan's Emergency Situations Department said, Trend reports. China, near the borders ...

About 22 tons of cocaine worth more than a billion US dollars were discovered by soldiers of the Ecuadorian army on a tip from military intelligence ...

Liangshui village in south-west China has been hit by a landslide, which has killed at least eight people and left 47 people buried under rubble. ...

The escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has claimed the lives of 152 UN employees, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said. "I am ...

An Israeli strike on the Syrian capital on Saturday destroyed a building used by the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, killing at least five ...

A fire broke out in Maximus Palace in Athens, the residence of the Prime Minister of Greece. This was reported by RIA News With reference to the ...

The attack occurred when an explosive device detonated near a military patrol in the Wadi Omyran area of the Mudiyah district in eastern Abyan, the ...

14 students and two teachers were killed after a boat they were on capsized in Harni Lake near Vadodara on Thursday during a picnic. The boat was ...

A volcano erupted in southwest Iceland on Sunday, posing an immediate threat to a nearby small fishing town although it had been evacuated earlier ...

Armed men have broken into the set of a public television channel in Ecuador as it broadcast live and threatened people as the country reels from a ...

At least ten people were dead during the riots in Ecuador. This was reported by the national police."We inform you that this evening in Nobola, ...

The number of deaths in Japan due to the recent earthquake on New Year continues to mount as the latest figure was recorded at 168, while the number ...

Palestinian media sources reported the death in an Israeli airstrike of Ali Salem Abu Ajwa, the grandson of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who founded the ...

The death toll in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, from Monday's powerful magnitude-7.6 earthquake has risen to 128, prefectural officials said ...

Aftershocks threatened to bury more homes and block roads crucial for relief shipments, as the death toll from the earthquakes that rattled ...

Hampered by bad weather and damaged roads, Japanese rescuers searched on Friday for 222 people still missing four days after a devastating ...

A Las Vegas judge took a beating as she sentenced a man Wednesday for felony battery -- the convict broke free, and viciously took her down to the ...