The death toll from wildfires in Russia’s Ural Mountains rose to 21 Tuesday, Russian state news agency Tass reported, citing local emergency service agencies. Wildfires have raged in the Kurgan region of the Urals and in Siberia all week. A resident of
The death toll from floods in eastern Congo has almost doubled, reaching close to 400 people as of Sunday, according to a local official. The administrator of the worst-affected area, the Kalehe territory of South Kivu province, told The Associated Press by
Two more horses died in the hours before 15-1 shot Mage won the Kentucky Derby Saturday, increasing this week’s death count at Churchill Downs to seven. The alarming number of horse deaths cast a shadow over the 149th edition of the world’s
Asked about whether the monarchy would be slimmed down, the King’s sister said: “Well, I think the ‘slimmed down’ was said in a day when there were a few more people around. “It doesn’t sound like a good idea from where I’m
American forces used weather warfare during Vietnam War Monday morning, 7am, and Le Guan Gui is starting his first job of the day. He is hunched over a 60cm-long, rusting mortar shell, partially buried in the back garden of a house off
Kenyan officials say the number of deaths linked to a cult on the country’s Indian Ocean coast has risen to 110. Heavy rains stalled the exhumation process for the third day as government pathologists began autopsies. The official number of victims had
Kenyan police have arrested Ezekiel Odero, a popular megachurch pastor, in connection with Paul Makenzi’s starvation cult, which has left at least 103 people dead. Odero, whose YouTube channel has over 400,000 subscribers, bought Makenzi’s television channel after he moved to the
The death toll at a ranch in coastal Kenya that is owned by a pastor who is accused of leading a religious cult and ordering his followers to starve themselves reached 90 on Tuesday, as the country’s interior minister announced an expanded
Civilian deaths in Ukraine have mounted, according to figures released by the United Nations on Tuesday, reaching nearly 8,500 confirmed deaths since the war began, with the top agency warning that actual figures are likely “considerably higher.” The United Nations High Commissioner
French investigators are treating the deaths of at least six people who were killed when a building collapsed in the city of Marseille as a possible “involuntary homicide” case, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Prosecutor Dominique Laurens said an investigation was opened on