Relatives of a victim of the Grand Diamond City hotel-casino fire in Poipet, Cambodia, mourn at a temple on the Thai side of the border in Aranyaprathet on December 30, 2022. Rescuers scoured the charred ruins of a Cambodian hotel and casino complex on December 30, warning they expected to find...
PARIS, France – The true global death toll of Covid-19 remains difficult to nail down three years after the first case was detected, though experts agree there have been far more fatalities than officially reported. Patient beds in Beijing stadium. China could see over 1 million Covid deaths...
WASHINGTON, United States -- The death toll from a fierce winter storm that gripped much of the United States over Christmas rose to at least 61 on Thursday, officials said. A gigantic snow pile is seen in front of Central Terminal in Buffalo, New York, on December 29, 2022. The death toll from a...
A 59-year-old man from Tubo, Abra was the latest addition to the list of individuals that have died due to the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that rocked the province more than a week ago, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported Friday, August 5. A day after a...
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...
