At least 11 people are dead and four injured after a massive fire in a paint factory in New Delhi, India. The blaze started on the first floor of the factory late Thursday, trapping victims on higher floors with no escape route.
Cocaine and crack continue to flow in Brussels, leading to frequent shootings among rival gangs, particularly in the Saint-Gilles district. Drug-related violent crime is on the rise in the European Union’s capital, as record amounts of cocaine are seized in Europe. Gang
City employees in Bangkok, Thailand, were ordered to work from home for two days due to soaring air pollution levels. Air pollution, primarily caused by the burning of forests and agricultural waste, has been a longstanding issue in Thailand’s north. The Department
A Scandinavian Airlines plane struck a fence at the Oslo airport on Wednesday, causing minor damage to the aircraft and no injuries, the airline said. It was the third mishap in two weeks reported at Norway’s main airport. The plane bound for
A country eight times smaller than Wales and one of the smallest in the world has controversially decided to ban begging from city streets and those caught breaking the rules could be thrown in jail. The hardline approach has been taken by
Tens of thousands of Indian farmers are marching toward the capital to demand guaranteed crop prices, renewing a movement from two years ago that succeeded in getting the government to repeal contentious new agricultural laws. On Tuesday, police used tear gas, detained
India looks set to overtake China as the place to invest as millionaires scramble to escape from under Xi Jinping’s perilous Chinese economy. Wall Street has seen a shift of money flowing into India rather than China is the country battles a
The al-Qaida-linked militant group al-Shabab claimed an attack that killed four Emirati troops and a Bahraini military officer on a training mission at a military base in the Somali capital, authorities said Sunday. The attack Saturday targeted the troops at the General
At least 18 people were killed Friday when the bus they were traveling on collided with a truck in the Congolese capital of Kinshasa, authorities said. The bus collided with the truck as it tried to make a turn along a highway
Hundreds of angry farmers took to the streets in Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, on Monday to complain of what they called “the total failure” of the government to meet the mounting challenges of the agricultural sector. They called on Agriculture Minister Kiril Vatev