•A cooling tower of the Civaux nuclear power plant, south-western France, yesterday A three-year-old has died after finding himself trapped in a car in the Paris region in extreme heat, a prosecutor said today, the third such fatality this week. The boy had slipped into the family car while his father thought he was napping, […]
•A collapsed building in the Altamira neighbourhood following an earthquake in Caracas, yesterday The death toll from Venezuela’s devastating earthquakes has risen to at least 164, with 971 people injured, interim President Delcy Rodriguez said today. Around 30 aftershocks have been recorded following the two strongest quakes yesterday, accor...
•Rescue workers evacuate an injured person from a collapsed building Powerful twin earthquakes have killed 32 people and injured more than 700, the nation’s interim president said today, after the massive shocks collapsed entire buildings and sent people running in panic. Authorities and average Venezuelans were clambering on piles of rubble ...
•US President Donald Trump The U.S. state department says it is revoking passports of Americans with significant outstanding child support debt. Passport revocations for unpaid child support of more than $2,500 is allowed under a rarely-enforced 1996 federal law. Previously, the consequence was only doled out when people with such debt sought ...
•Tourists shield themselves from the sun with umbrellas at St Peter’s square in the Vatican during a heatwave, today The heatwave gripping Europe is putting people’s health at risk, and the continent’s leaders must invest in making their health services more climate-resilient, the WHO chief said today. Temperatures climbed across Europe again...
•Ebola outbreak France today announced its first confirmed case of Ebola identified on its territory, through a doctor who had returned from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The health ministry “confirms today the identification of a first positive case of Ebola virus disease on national territory”, it said. Contacted by our correspondent, th...
•US-based Nigerian, Ayodeji Adeniyi The United States has deported a Nigerian national, Ayodeji Ajayi, following multiple criminal convictions, including domestic violence, as part of its ongoing immigration enforcement efforts. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement disclosed this in a statement posted on its official X account today, say...
•Guests wave hand fans to cool off Europe yesterday braced for more extreme weather as a deadly heatwave threatened fresh temperature records in Britain, with trains disrupted and hospitals across the continent preparing for an influx of heat-afflicted patients. The latest heatwave has raised fears of the effects of climate change-supercharged...
•Explosion at Qatar’s Ras Laffan industrial zone, yesterday A huge blast at a Qatar gas hub that sent flames shooting into the night sky has injured 54 people, authorities said Monday as they searched for 18 others missing. A “technical incident” caused the explosion late yesterday in the Gulf emirate’s Ras Laffan industrial zone, the [&helli...
•60+ British flags at Downing Street, London Britain will have its seventh prime minister in 10 years after Labour leader Keir Starmer was ousted today by his own party. The party’s self-inflicted wound was a trend set by the Conservatives when they were in office, reports AFP. •Keir Starmer Starmer announced his resignation today following [&...
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