Disasters / Accidents

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece warned on Tuesday that it would not allow the illegal entry of migrants by land or...

GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Flash floods and landslides in India's northeast Assam state killed at least 25 people and displaced...

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iranian judicial authorities investigating a building collapse that killed at least 11 people have detained the mayor of...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Two Iranian pilots died after their F7 fighter jet crashed on Tuesday near Anarak, 200 km (124...

(Reuters) - Dozens of ethnic Rohingya refugees were dead or missing after a boat with about 90 people aboard, including...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Five people were killed when a 10-storey building in Iran's southern city of Abadan partly collapsed and...

(Reuters) -Two people were killed and 120 injured on Monday when a gas cylinder exploded inside a restaurant in the...

MANILA (Reuters) - Seven people have died after a high-speed Philippine ferry carrying 134 people caught fire on Monday, with...

TORONTO (Reuters) -The death toll from powerful thunderstorms in Canada's two most populous provinces this weekend rose to at least...

(Reuters) -A Canadian Pacific Railway freight train carrying potash derailed east of Fort Macleod in southern Alberta on Sunday morning,...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Hundreds of people have been evacuated to safety after heavy rains once again hammered South Africa's coastal...

(Reuters) - A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck near the east coast of Honshu, Japan's main island on Sunday, the European-Mediterranean...

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - The African Development Bank on Friday approved a $1.5 billion emergency food production facility for 20...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's aviation regulator is seeking "whistleblowers" from the industry's frontline workers to plug any safety loopholes, part...

TUNIS (Reuters) - At least 4 migrants died and another 10 were missing after a boat sank off Tunisia on...

ROME (Reuters) - Three people died and two were still missing after a tugboat sank off the southern Italian coast...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli authorities called an early close on Thursday to a religious bonfire festival after dozens of ultra-Orthodox...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A bus accident on a highway in Mexico's western state of Jalisco state has left 14...

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - In a world beset by conflicts and natural disasters, the number of people who...

By Zarir Hussain GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - More than 500,000 people have fled their homes in India's northeastern state of...