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At least 145 people have died in severe flooding across southern Thailand, authorities said Friday, as water levels continue to fall and the scale of destruction becomes clearer.The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation reported that more than 1.2 million households — involving roug...
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A crew of three from the United States and Russia began their long-duration mission on the International Space Station (ISS) after launching Thursday aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft was sent into orbit at 2:27 p.m. local time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, w...
Rescue operations were severely hindered Friday after flash floods and landslides on Sumatra Island killed at least 79 people and left dozens missing, with damaged roads, bridges, and limited heavy equipment slowing relief efforts.Tropical Cyclone Senyar, forming in the Strait of Malacca, has driven...
A three-member U.S.-Russian crew has begun an eight-month mission aboard the International Space Station following a launch from Kazakhstan on Thursday.The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft lifted off at 2:27 p.m. from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Russian cosmo...
Flooding in southern Thailand has claimed at least 145 lives, officials reported Friday, as receding waters reveal widespread devastation across the region.Heavy rains triggered the floods, affecting more than 1.2 million households and around 3.6 million people in 12 southern provinces, according t...
Hong Kong: A fire can be seen at Wang Fuk Court, a residential estate in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong’s New Territories, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)Hong Kong firefighters searched through a high-rise tower complex apartment-by-apartment Friday for more victims af...
President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday announced a new voluntary military service for thousands of 18- and 19-year-olds, a move he says will help strengthen France’s armed forces amid rising concerns over Russia’s ambitions in Europe.Speaking at the Varces military base in the French Alps...
An Afghan national has been taken into custody after shooting two West Virginia National Guard members near the White House Wednesday afternoon, leaving the troops hospitalized in critical condition.FBI Director Kash Patel and Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser confirmed the shooting, while West Virgini...
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is barring South Africa from participating in next year’s G20 summit near Miami and halting all U.S. payments and subsidies to the country over its treatment of a U.S. government representative at this year’s summit.Trump skipped sending a U.S. de...
Families in Myanmar welcomed relatives released from Insein Prison on Thursday as part of a mass amnesty announced by the country’s military rulers ahead of next month’s elections.At least eight buses carrying freed prisoners arrived at the Yangon facility around 11:30 a.m., greeted by r...
A senior Kremlin official on Wednesday confirmed that U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff will visit Moscow next week as efforts to find a resolution to the nearly four-year war in Ukraine gain momentum.Yuri Ushakov, foreign affairs adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Kremlin officials ha...
Guinea-Bissau’s military on Thursday announced Gen. Horta N’Ta as the head of a new junta, cementing a coup that followed the country’s tense presidential election earlier this week.State television broadcast a declaration from the military high command confirming N’Ta, forme...
Bulgaria’s government on Thursday announced it is withdrawing its draft 2026 budget following widespread street protests against steep tax hikes and international warnings over fiscal plans.The decision was announced by Boyko Borissov, leader of the ruling center-right GERB party, who called f...
Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau appeared on state television Wednesday claiming they had seized control of the country, following reports of gunfire near the presidential palace just three days after national elections. President Umaro Sissoco Embaló told French media he had been deposed and detain...
The number of deaths from a massive blaze at a residential complex in Hong Kong has risen to 55, making it one of the city’s deadliest fires in recent decades, as firefighters continued battling the flames Thursday (November 27).Authorities reported that 51 victims were discovered at the scene...
The sisters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday demanded permission to meet him in Adiala Jail, claiming they were beaten by police while protesting outside the prison amid false reports of his death.Khan, leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has been in Adiala Jail sin...
Belarusian opposition politician Mikola Statkevich has been returned to prison after refusing a U.S.-brokered “forced deportation,” activists said Tuesday.Statkevich, a former presidential candidate, had been freed on Sept. 11 under a pardon from President Alexander Lukashenko at the req...
Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir have intensified security operations following the Nov. 10 blast near New Delhi’s Red Fort, which killed at least 10 people and injured 32, officials said. The crackdown has sparked fear and despair among locals, culminating in the self-immolation of ...
China’s travel advisory against Japan is already hitting Tokyo’s tourism sector, signaling a familiar strategy that could continue for some time as tensions rise over Taiwan.About 200 Chinese tourists have canceled bookings at a tearoom in Tokyo’s historic Asakusa district, with so...
Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, has emerged as a central figure in shaping Moscow’s latest proposal to end the war in Ukraine, despite lacking formal diplomatic credentials.A former investment banker, Dmitriev has acted as a back-channel communicator between the ...
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