Disasters / Accidents

By Rodrigo Viga Gaier and Sebastian Rocandio RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -At least 94 people died in the historic Brazilian...

By Gessika Thomas PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti began a donor conference on Wednesday to raise some of the estimated $2...

By Sofia Menchu GUATEMELA CITY (Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck southwestern Guatemala early on Wednesday, the European Mediterranean...

(Reuters) -Canada's Magna Gold Corp said three of its employees died at the company's San Francisco Mine in the northern...

(This Feb 15 story has been refiled to correct number of crew to 24, not 26, in paragraph two) By...

MADRID (Reuters) -A moderate earthquake rattled the Portuguese island of Madeira in the early hours on Wednesday, scaring residents but...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish appeal court ordered on Tuesday that a district court try again a case against two...

By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -A series of small earthquakes has struck near North Korea's shuttered nuclear test site, South...

By Manas Sharma and Simon Scarr (Reuters) - When an underwater volcano off Tonga erupted last month, it was accompanied...

By Christophe Van Der Perre SAMPONA COMMUNE, MADAGASCAR (Reuters) - Standing at the side of a highway in the south...

By Heekyong Yang and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean authorities have ordered a production halt at one of...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - The velodrome in Kinshasa's Kintambo neigbourhood rang out with howls of disbelief on Friday, as thousands gathered...

By Lovasoa Rabary ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) -The death toll from Cyclone Batsirai in Madagascar jumped to 120 on Friday from 92...

KYIV (Reuters) - Russia's naval exercises in the Black and Azov Seas and the closure of traditional shipping routes have...

PARIS (Reuters) -The French coastguard has rescued 36 migrants in the English Channel who were trying to cross to Britain...

By Herbert Villarraga PEREIRA, Colombia (Reuters) - A survivor of a landslide in central Colombia which killed at least 16...

By Lovasoa Rabary ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - A cyclone killed at least 10 people in southeastern Madagascar, the second to hit...

ACCRA (Reuters) -The Spanish company in charge of a truck that exploded and killed 13 people last month en route...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - A Himalayan avalanche killed seven Indian soldiers in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh near the China...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's health ministry said on Tuesday it had ordered the suspension of shipments of black rockfish caught...