Disasters / Accidents

(Reuters) - Protesters in several cities in Iran chanted anti-government slogans overnight, including "death to Khamenei", over a deadly building...

By Jose Cortes PUERTO ESCONDIDO, Mexico (Reuters) -Hurricane Agatha plowed into beach resorts on Mexico's southern Pacific coast on Monday,...

DUBAI (Reuters) - A day of national mourning to commemorate victims of a collapsed building in the Iranian city of...

By Gram Slattery and Sergio Queiroz RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Over 100 people are missing or confirmed dead in...

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) -Nepal authorities on Monday recovered or located the bodies of all but one of 22...

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Around 100 people were killed in clashes between artisanal gold miners in north Chad on May 23...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Rescue workers in Nepal have so far recovered 14 bodies from the crash site of a small...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - The dead bodies of two more missing miners have been found at a zinc mine owned by...

By Tife Owolabi YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 31 people died in Nigeria on Saturday during a stampede at...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - At least 35 people died amid heavy rainfall in northeastern Brazil on Friday and Saturday,...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian police used tear gas and fired shots in the air to disperse another night of protests...

LONDON (Reuters) -Fire ripped through a superyacht in southwest England on Saturday, sending thick plumes of black smoke into the...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Falling ice boulders killed two climbers and hurt nine more on a peak in southwestern Switzerland on...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said Russian President Vladimir Putin told him on Friday that Moscow would meet...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian protesters chanting anti-government slogans took to the streets of several cities including southwestern Abadan where a...

By Ngouda Dione and Bate Felix TIVAOUANE, Senegal (Reuters) - Anta Ba arrived at the gate of the Tivaouane hospital...

By Bate Felix and Ngouda Dione TIVAOUANE, Senegal (Reuters) - Three weeks ago, Ramata Gueye died after giving birth to...

(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck off the coast of East Timor on Friday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal President Macky Sall on Thursday sacked his health minister, Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr, a government decree showed,...

(Reuters) - At least two people died in an explosion at a Spanish biodiesel plant in the northeastern region of...