Death toll has risen to 97 in Pakistani monsoon rains, where 49 were killed in the Balochistan province after flooding, authorities have announced. A total of 97 people were killed across the country, including 17 people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the northwest of the country, 11 in Sindh, 10 in Gilgit-Baltistan and 10 more […]
Police rescued a woman who fell into an irrigation canal in the Haliliye district of Şanlurfa, Türkiye. People, who heard a woman’s voice asking for help, reported the situation to the Emergency Call Center. The teams directed to the area took action to save the woman who was holding a cloth on the fence nearby […]
A single-engine plane carrying 2 people made an emergency landing on a highway in the US state of North Carolina due to a malfunction. Vicen Fraser, the pilot, decided to land on US Route 19. The plane landed on the highway, passing through each power line. According to reports, the highway is the only flat […]
A forest fire has erupted in the Gard region of southern France. While 620 hectares of land have been turned to ash so far, extinguishing efforts with planes, helicopters, and 700 firefighters continue. Some areas of the fire were declared “inaccessible,” by the Governor’s Office of Gard, which issued a red alert regarding the fire. […]
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s former Prime Minister, was assassinated during an election speech in Nara city. A man in his forties dressed in a gray T-shirt and beige trousers approached Abe from behind as he spoke to the public near Yamato-Saidaiji Station. Two shots were then heard, and Abe collapsed to the ground after the second […]
Anti-government demonstrations were held in Albania’s capital Tirana, due to high prices, deteriorating living conditions, bribery, and illegal tenders awarded as build-operate-transfer. Non-governmental organizations and opposition parties came together in front of the Prime Ministry building. The protest was led by the leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Albania and former Prime Minister […]
The sky turned green during the derecho storm on July 5 in Sioux Falls, located in the US state of South Dakota. According to experts, the primary reason of the phenomenon is that the clouds tend to emit blue light as they bear rain, and the sky turns green when blue light is combined with […]
Dozens of people protested at the Bab al-Hawa border crossing on the Turkey-Syria border in order to keep the border crossing open so that aid to Syrian refugees could continue unabated through Turkey. Obeida Dandesh, one of the protest organizers, said that closing the Bab al-Hawa Border Gate would endanger the lives of hundreds of […]
The bull-running event took place on the second day of Spain’s famous San Fermin Festival, which was re-organized this year after a two-year hiatus due to the corona virus. Hundreds of people attended the event that took place on an 850-meter road leading from the city streets to the bullfighting arena. Authorities reported that some […]
Ukraine International Airlines (UAI) has filed a lawsuit against Iran for the downing of the passenger plane that flew from Tehran to Kyiv on January 8, 2020, in Tehran, Iran’s capital. According to UAI, the case was filed in a court in Ontario, Canada. Iran and the Revolutionary Guards are named as defendants in the […]