A tanker exploded in Nigeria’s southern Ondo state on Monday, burning eight people to death, the road safety agency said. The tanker was carrying gasoline and exploded while the victims were trying to extract the much sought-after fuel, according to Ezekiel Sonallah,
On May 21, a fire at a high school girls’ dormitory caused 20 child deaths in Guyana. The blaze was intentionally lit by a female student who has since been detained and charged with murder. Guyana’s government is offering to pay $25,000
As wildfires continue to rage across Canada, officials revealed on Thursday that the ongoing fire season has already shattered previous records for the extent of land burned, the number of evacuees, and the staggering cost of firefighting efforts. Warm weather and dry
Gruesome footage has been taken in Haiti reporting to show showing the burning bodies of several young men who were apparently stopped while carrying weapons. The video has been circulating online amid widespread reports of intense gunfire in various areas of Haiti’s capital
A man has sparked a fiery debate after taking to the internet to ask if he was wrong for telling his divorced sister “exactly why her marriage crashed and burned”. Posting on the Reddit forum ‘AmItheA******’ , in which people ask if they are morally right
An impoverished man who went into a field to steal a pair of broccoli stalks was beaten and burned to death by a mob in central Mexico, prosecutors said Thursday. Local police managed to take the man away from the village of
Mother and father Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden have been convicted at Derby Crown Court of the Christmas Day murder of their baby son Finley Boden after burning and beating him in the days before his death The death occurred in the
Fears over reaction to a sumptuous Versailles banquet were a key reason for cancelling King Charles’s state visit to France, insiders say. “The comparison to Louis XVI’s court while citizens protested at the cost-of-living crisis was simply too striking,” said one source
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country will oppose Sweden’s bid to join NATO, citing pro-Kurdish protests in Stockholm this weekend. Turkey has long faulted Sweden for its tolerance of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, a group Turkey, the U.S.
A police officer on patrol was attacked and burned to death by protesters in the Peruvian region of Puno, as the death toll from demonstrations in the wake of the ouster of former President Pedro Castillo rose to 47, authorities said Tuesday.