JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The death toll of a ferry sinking in Indonesian waters rose to 19 on Monday, after a 10-day search and rescue operation was called off, authorities said. The KM Ladang Pertiwi ran out of fuel and sank in bad weather while sailing through Indonesia's Makassar Strait in South...
TEHRAN, Iran -- The death toll from the collapse of an Iranian building two weeks ago has risen to 41 after three more bodies were found, local authorities said Monday. The 10-storey Metropol building that was under construction in Abadan in southwestern Khuzestan province collapsed on May 23,...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- The death toll from heavy rains last week in the Brazilian city of Recife and its metropolitan area has risen to 126, with two people still missing, the government of the northeastern state of Pernambuco said Thursday. At least 9,302 people have been driven from their...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- The number of confirmed Covid-19 deaths has exceeded two million in Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe said on Thursday. The cumulative number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the region has surpassed 218 million, and 2,003,081...
View of the ruins of the Saratoga Hotel, following an explosion on the eve, in Havana, on May 7, 2022. Rescuers combed through what remained of a luxury Havana hotel Saturday, as the death toll after a powerful blast due to a suspected gas leak climbed to 26, authorities said. YAMIL LAGE / AFP...
BEIJING, China -- Fifty-three people died in a building collapse in central China, authorities said Friday, announcing the end of the rescue mission in a disaster which has been blamed on illegal construction. The commercial building in Changsha city caved in last Friday, prompting over six days of...
BEIJING, China -- Chinese authorities raised the number of people confirmed dead in a building collapse to 26 on Thursday, nearly a week after the block containing apartments, a hotel and a cinema caved in and emergency workers launched a massive rescue operation to pull out survivors. The...
KIEV, Ukraine -- The death toll from a road accident in Ukraine's western Rivne region has risen to 26, the interior ministry said Wednesday. In a Telegram post, the ministry said 12 other people were injured in the Tuesday collision on the Kiev-Chop highway near the village of Sytne, where a...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The death toll from South Africa's worst floods in living memory was Thursday officially revised down to 435 after autopsies showed the figures included some who had been murdered or died from natural causes. A total toll of 448 deaths had been announced, with dozens...
Unacceptable. That's how Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda described the growing number of casualties from typhoon "Agaton's" recent hammering of the country’s central islands. (Eutah Mizushima/ Unsplash) “That kind of casualty level is unacceptable. We knew this typhoon was coming. We knew...
ILOILO CITY – The number of casualties in Capiz province hit by massive flooding during tropical storm Agaton rose to 19 with one still missing, according to the data released by the Capiz Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (Capiz PDRRMO). Search and rescue personnel...
SAO PAULO, Brazil -- The death toll rose to 105, with 140 people still missing, due to landslides and floods caused by heavy rains on Tuesday in the Brazilian city of Petropolis in Rio de Janeiro state, local authorities reported Thursday. Fallen trees and wire poles block a road after heavy rains...
