Investigations continued on Thursday morning at the site of Lisbon’s funicular crash, where officials confirmed the death toll had risen to 16 and dozens injured.
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Taliban officials say the death toll is now close to 1,500, but that number is expected to rise as rescue workers battle to pull bodies from destroyed buildings.
Residents of Bukavu struggle with damaged banknotes amid rebel control
A fast-moving wildfire has burned homes in the historic California town of Chinese Camp, founded in the 1850s by Chinese miners forced out of a nearby settlement.
At a meeting of the joint oversight committee in Washington, members acknowledged the slowness of progress in implementing the agreement.
On the sidelines of World War II’s 80th anniversary celebrations in Beijing, Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with Denis Sassou-Nguesso, President of the Republic of Congo.
Police used water cannons and dragged protesters from the rails in Jerusalem on Wednesday as thousands demonstrated outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence.
In Kenya, gruesome exhumations at Chakama Ranch in Kilifi County have been suspended to allow for DNA analysis after more than 100 body parts and 34 new bodies were uncovered in the latest phase of investigation into a suspected doomsday cult.
A devastating landslide in Sudan’s western Darfur region has reportedly buried an entire village in the remote Marrah Mountains, with around 100 bodies recovered so far. The Sudan Liberation Movement-Army warned that the death toll from the August 31 d...
In just 15 years, sub-Saharan Africa has seen the number of people over 60 balloon by an estimated 50 per cent.
