GANGTOK, India - At least seven people were killed Tuesday when an avalanche in the Indian Himalayas struck on the road to a popular tourist destination at the Chinese border, officials said. Cascading snow buried at least half a dozen vehicles on the route to Nathu La Pass, a scenic outpost...
WASHINGTON, United States- A tornado tore through the southern US state of Arkansas and killed three people on Friday, while severe storms further north in Illinois and Indiana left three dead, authorities said. The Arkansas tornado whipped across the state in the afternoon, causing what Governor...
WASHINGTON, United States- The United States on Thursday condemned Russia's detention of an American journalist writing for The Wall Street Journal and said it was seeking consular access. US officials said they were in touch with the family of detained journalist Evan Gershkovich as well as the...
NEW DELHI, India- The death toll after a floor collapsed at a Hindu temple in India had risen to 36 on Friday after rescuers discovered the body of the last person still missing, police told AFP. Dozens of worshippers celebrating a major religious holiday plunged into the stepwell –- a...
GENEVA, Switzerland- Russia's war in Ukraine has made severe rights violations "shockingly routine" and is distracting humanity from battling existential threats to its survival, the United Nations rights chief warned on Friday. Speaking before the UN Human Rights Council, Volker Turk denounced...
NAKHON NAYOK, Thailand -- Hundreds of Thai firefighters and soldiers battled a forest blaze less than 100 kilometres (60 miles) from Bangkok on Friday as the kingdom grapples with air pollution that has made more than 1.7 million people ill already this year. The fire has affected at least 800,000...
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala -- Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen began a visit to Guatemala and Belize on Friday to shore up ties with dwindling allies following a trip to the United States that angered China. Tsai's visit to the Central American neighbors comes after Honduras became the latest country...
NEW DELHI, India -- The death toll after a floor collapsed at a Hindu temple in India had risen to 35 on Friday, with rescue operations underway to find one person still missing, a local official told AFP. Dozens of worshippers celebrating a major religious holiday plunged into the stepwell...
SINGAPORE, Singapore -- A disruption at automated immigration clearance counters Friday led to rare delays at Singapore's Changi airport, affecting hundreds of travellers. The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said in a Facebook post it was "experiencing slowness at selected passenger...
VATICAN CITY, Holy See – Pope Francis has bronchitis but is showing a "marked improvement" after being treated with antibiotics and could be discharged from hospital "in the coming days", medical staff said Thursday. The update, in a statement from the Vatican, came as the 86-year-old...
BRASILIA, Brazil – Ex-president Jair Bolsonaro returned home to Brazil Thursday from three months of self-imposed exile in the United States, vowing to be a fierce opponent to his successor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The far-right ex-army captain, who skipped town in the final hours of his...
VATICAN CITY, Holy See -- The Catholic Church took a fresh step Thursday in acknowledging abuse endured by Indigenous peoples with the Vatican formally rejecting 15th-century papal edicts that empowered Europeans to colonise non-Christian lands. During a trip to Canada last July, Pope Francis faced...
