Firefighters on Tuesday found the bodies of 18 suspected migrants in wildfire-ravaged northeastern Greece. Gale-force winds aggravated fires near Alexandroupolis in the Balkan nation’s Evros region. “We must urgently take effective initiatives to ensure that this bleak reality does not become the
A fire broke out Wednesday in a sprawling camp in northeast Syria housing tens of thousands of mostly women and children linked to the Islamic State group causing material damage but no casualties, the camp’s director said. The Al-Hol Camp holds about
An outbreak of Salmonella linked to ground beef has sickened 16 people in the Northeast and hospitalized six others, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency said nine people who had taken ill were from New Jersey,
Tens of thousands of people have taken shelter in government-run relief camps as heavy monsoon rains batter villages in India’s northeast, and one person has died in the floodwaters this week, a government relief agency said Friday. Assam state is on red
A Turkish drone attack killed two Kurdish local officials and their driver in northeast Syria on Tuesday in the latest such strike in the war-torn country, officials said, as talks on Syria’s conflict began in Kazakhstan. The Kurdish-led authority in northeast Syria
Islamic extremist rebels in northeast Nigeria have brutally killed at least seven farmers, posing a grave threat to the region’s food security. The attack occurred on Thursday when militants targeted farmers working in their crop fields near the Molai area of Borno
At least $396 million is urgently needed to prevent widespread hunger and malnutrition in northeastern Nigeria from turning into a “full-blown catastrophe,” the United Nations office in the West African nation said Thursday. “We are ringing the alarm bell that there are
John Harrison married Jane Liddell and, in 1874, they welcomed a baby boy, also named John. Like his father before him, John Jr’s life was destined to be spent down the mines. It wasn’t until years later that the Harrison family was
China’s local maritime authorities have issued a warning for possible rocket debris in waters northeast of Taiwan, saying ships would be banned from entering the area on April 16. Southern Fujian province’s Maritime Safety Administration said that vessels would be prohibited from
National guard troops patrolled northeastern Brazil on Thursday after three nights of rioting allegedly ordered by imprisoned gang members left windows smashed, buses ablaze and at least three people dead. Most of the violence was in Rio Grande do Norte state where