Disasters / Accidents

(Reuters) -An earthquake in Tajikistan killed five people, the Tajik emergency situations committee said on Saturday, with the epicentre of...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan issued evacuation requests to more than 120,000 residents in some southern prefectures due to heavy rain...

By Jennifer Gauthier LYTTON, British Columbia (Reuters) - Residents of Lytton, British Columbia, were able to see the remains of...

By Tangi Salaün and Bate Felix PARIS (Reuters) -France will soon begin reshaping its military presence in the Sahel region...

PARIS (Reuters) - France will be left with between 2,500 and 3,000 soldiers in West Africa's Sahel region once it...

(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck near Minahasa, Sulawesi, off the coast of Indonesia on Friday, the European...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Two people were seriously injured while nine others suffered bruises after a hot air balloon crashed in...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -All nine people onboard were found dead in the crash of an airplane outside Orebro, Sweden, on Thursday,...

(Refiles to correct reporting credit) By Pap Saine BANJUL (Reuters) -Entire families wandered around the outskirts of Gambia's capital Banjul...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's mines recorded 32 deaths in the first half of 2021 compared with 24 during the...

By Patpicha Tanakasempipat and Kanupriya Kapoor BANGKOK (Reuters) - Evacuated residents warily began returning to their homes on Bangkok's outskirts...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday issued an emergency directive requiring main rotor...

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines will send black boxes of a Lockheed C-130 aircraft that crashed at the weekend to...

HERAT/KABUL (Reuters) - Regional officials in northern Afghanistan said on Wednesday they had recaptured government buildings in a provincial capital...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Buildings shook briefly in Taiwan's capital Taipei on Wednesday during an earthquake, with no immediate reports of...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Rescuers in Japan were searching on Wednesday for 27 people still missing after heavy rain triggered landslides...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -There are no survivors after a plane carrying 28 people crashed in the far east of Russia on...

DUBAI (Reuters) - An explosion caused by a gas leak at a pipeline pumping station killed three workers and injured...

By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine authorities have retrieved both the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from an...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - None of the 28 people on board a Russian An-26 plane have survived its crash on Tuesday...