QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador on Tuesday began to ration electricity in the country’s main cities as a drought linked to the El Niño weather pattern depletes reservoirs and limits output at hydroelectric plants that produce about 75% of the nation’s power.
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — A tropical cyclone that swept across Madagascar has killed 18 people and left four missing after making landfall on the north of the Indian Ocean island nation earlier this week, authorities said on Friday. The storm has also
The leader of Northern Ireland’s largest unionist party, Jeffrey Donaldson, has resigned from his position following charges of historic allegations. Donaldson stepped down immediately, pending the outcome of the judicial process, according to the Democratic Unionist Party. The party has suspended Donaldson
BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fired rockets with heavy warheads at towns in northern Israel, saying it used the weapons against civilian targets for the first time Thursday in retaliation for Israeli airstrikes the night before that killed nine,
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An explosion at a small hotel located near a police station in northeastern Kenya killed four people, including three officers, and wounded several others on Monday, authorities said. The blast in the town of Mandera, which is on
Four people have died in a collision in Armagh, according to the Police Service of Northern Ireland. The crash involved a grey Volkswagen Golf and happened in the Ballynahonemore Road at about 2.10am on Sunday (March 24). The driver and three passengers,
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Famine is “imminent” in northern Gaza, where 70% of people are experiencing catastrophic hunger, according to a report issued Monday that warned escalation of the war could push half of Gaza’s total population to the brink of
At least two dozen people died when a migrant boat capsized off Senegal’s northern coast this week. The boat was headed for Europe and capsized near the town of Saint-Louis. Bodies washed ashore on Wednesday afternoon, prompting the fire department to respond.
An avalanche buried three German backcountry skiers in Italy’s northern South Tyrol province on Wednesday, killing one and critically injuring the other two, Italy’s alpine rescue corps said. RUSSIAN SKIER DEAD, 6 RESCUED IN AVALANCHE AT HIMALAYAN RESORT All three skiers were
A judge in Belfast ruled that a new law granting immunity from prosecution for offenses during Northern Ireland’s decades of sectarian violence violates human rights. The Legacy and Reconciliation Bill, passed last September, halts most prosecutions for killings during “the Troubles.” The