•A collapsed building following earthquakes in Caraballeda, La Guaira state, Venezuela, on June 26, 2026 The death toll in Venezuela’s devastating twin earthquakes last month has topped 4,300, a top lawmaker said yesterday. National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez — the brother of interim leader Delcy Rodriguez — put the toll at 4,333, up f...
•Flooded shops along a submerged riverside walk are seen by the overflowing Yongjiang River in Nanning, in China’s southern Guangxi region, today The death toll from devastating storms in parts of China rose to 15 today, with hundreds more injured and tens of thousands evacuated, state media reported, as President Xi Jinping urged “all-out” r...
•A collapsed building in Catia La Mar, La Guaira state, Venezuela, yesterday The death toll from Venezuela’s twin earthquakes has risen to 3,535, with more than 16,700 injured in the disaster, according to updated official figures released yesterday. The massive June 24 earthquakes flattened entire neighborhoods in La Guaira state north of th...
•A collapsed apartment building following an earthquake in Catia La Mar, La Guaira State Venezuela’s devastating twin earthquakes have killed nearly 3,000, official figures showed yesterday, as international rescue teams began winding down search operations for survivors in the rubble. Fatalities jumped by more than 300 from Friday to 2,954, f...
•Volunteers help a man found amid the rubble More than 50,000 people were missing yesterday after twin earthquakes in Venezuela, the United Nations’ aid chief told our correspondent as international rescue teams and sniffer dogs arrived to join a desperate search for survivors. Interim president Delcy Rodriguez said the death toll was now at 5...
•The collapsed building site No fewer than eight persons, including an infant girl, have been confirmed dead following the collapse of a three-storey shopping complex in the Alakija area of Lagos-Badagary Expressway yesterday. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency disclosed that 26 other victims were rescued from the rubble as emergency ...
•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...
The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has declared the ongoing Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS), following rising infections, deaths and fears of wider regional transmission. According to the agency, about 395 susp...
Tension gripped Angwan Rukuba community, in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State, yesterday, as the death toll from the Palm Sunday attack rose to 33. Angry women and youths had staged a protest that disrupted the mass burial of victims at the ECWA Church, reports Vanguard. This came as gunmen ambushed and killed […]
•A resident prepares food at a public primary school used as a shelter for people affected by the passage of tropical cyclone Gezani Flooding and fierce winds have pushed Madagascar’s death toll from Cyclone Gezani to 59, with more than a dozen people still unaccounted for, the country’s disaster agency said today. It is the […]

