Disasters / Accidents

By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisia will work with other countries that have offered to help it to prevent environmental...

By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian authorities intensified efforts on Saturday to avoid an environmental disaster after a merchant...

By Rogan Ward KWANDENGEZI, South Africa (Reuters) -Rains that have killed around 400 people and left thousands homeless in South...

CAIRO (Reuters) - A small wooden boat carrying about 35 migrants capsized off the Libyan coast and six bodies have...

LINDELANI, South Africa (Reuters) - Bonakele Mtshali was away at a funeral when flash floods on South Africa's east coast...

By Rogan Ward DURBAN (Reuters) -South Africans were searching for survivors on Friday of floods that killed almost 400 people,...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The death toll from days of flooding on South Africa's east coast rose to 395 on Friday,...

By Pavel Polityuk and Oleksandr Kozhukhar KYIV/LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - (This April 14 story corrects paragraph 21 to make clear...

(Reuters) - The following are some facts about the Moskva, the Soviet-era flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet, which sank...

By Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippine military and aid workers pledged on Thursday to keep searching for 103...

BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 29 people died when a boat capsized in Nigeria's Sokoto state in the northwest...

(Reuters) -Russia's defence ministry said on Thursday that sailors had contained a fire on board the Moskva missile cruiser, the...

CAIRO (Reuters) -Ten people were killed including four French citizens, one Belgian national and five Egyptians, and another 14 tourists...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An overloaded truck carrying 29 people on Wednesday flipped over in Indonesia's West Papua province, killing 18...

By Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine authorities on Wednesday struggled to distribute aid to tens of thousands of...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - At least 45 people were killed after Monday's intensely heavy rainfall in South Africa's eastern coastal province...

KAMPALA (Reuters) - An elephant trampled to death a Colombian researcher who was studying chimpanzees in Kibali National Park in...

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine authorities said on Monday at least 25 people had died in landslides and floods caused by...

MANILA (Reuters) - Rescue teams in the Philippines faced a race against time on Tuesday in the search for 28...

By James Mackenzie and Silvia Aloisi YAHIDNE, Ukraine (Reuters) - The names of the dead are scrawled on the peeling...