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3h ago

Highway collapse in China leaves at least 24 dead

Eighteen cars fell down a slope after a section of the highway collapsed in southern Guangdong province, authorities said.
A section of a highway collapsed early Wednesday in southern China leaving more than a dozen of people dead, local officials said, after the area had experienced heavy rain in recent days.
A section of a highway collapsed early Wednesday in southern China leaving more than a dozen of people dead, local officials said, after the area had experienced heavy rain in recent days.
4h ago

Police in Georgia use tear gas, water cannons to disperse protest against so-called 'Russian law'

Eyewitnesses saw some police officers physically attack protesters before using tear gas, water cannon and stun grenades to force them from the area outside parliament.
Clashes erupted between police and opposition demonstrators protesting a new bill intended to track foreign influence that the opposition denounced as Russia-inspired.
Clashes erupted between police and opposition demonstrators protesting a new bill intended to track foreign influence that the opposition denounced as Russia-inspired.
5h ago

Rescue effort underway after more than 500 baby sea turtles washed ashore in big storm off South Africa

Baby turtles have to fend for themselves from the moment they hatch on beaches and make their way to the ocean.
The aquarium is stretched beyond capacity after more than 500 baby sea turtles were washed onto beaches by a rare and powerful storm and rescued by members of the public.
The aquarium is stretched beyond capacity after more than 500 baby sea turtles were washed onto beaches by a rare and powerful storm and rescued by members of the public.
13h ago

Mom says she cuddled the wrong baby for hours after her newborn was swapped at birth

“I was demanding for them to tell me where Isabella was, because this was not my baby.”
Newborn Baby Lying in Bassinet in a Maternity Hospital.
Newborn Baby Lying in Bassinet in a Maternity Hospital.
18h ago

Haitian council names a new prime minister in the hope of quelling stifling violence

Former Sports Minister Fritz Bélizaire will be the Caribbean country's prime minister.
Image: Transitional Council members  after a ceremony to name its president and a prime minister in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Image: Transitional Council members  after a ceremony to name its president and a prime minister in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
21h ago

Abducted Catholic bishop who had mediated between cartels in Mexico is found and hospitalized

The chief prosecutor of Morelos state, where retired Monsignor Salvador Rangel had disappeared, said “preliminary indications are that it may have been an ‘express’ kidnapping.”
Monsignor Salvador Rangel, bishop of the Chilpancingo-Chilapa diocese, arrives to meet with people displaced by violence
Monsignor Salvador Rangel, bishop of the Chilpancingo-Chilapa diocese, arrives to meet with people displaced by violence

98-year-old Ukrainian woman treks miles under shelling to escape Russian forces

Lidia Stepanivna Lumikovska said she survived World War II and now “I am going through this war.”
Elderly Ukrainian Woman Treks 6 Miles Under Russian Shelling
Elderly Ukrainian Woman Treks 6 Miles Under Russian Shelling

The top U.N. court rejects Nicaragua's request for Germany to halt aid to Israel

The 16-judge panel declined to throw out the case altogether, meaning it will continue to be heard at the court.
An Israeli army soldier gestures behind a moving main battle tank
An Israeli army soldier gestures behind a moving main battle tank

King Charles returns to public duties with a trip to a cancer charity

The event marks the king’s first formal public engagement since Feb. 6, when Buckingham Palace announced that he would be taking a break from public duties to focus on his treatment for an undisclosed type of cancer.
King Charles III is returning to public duties with a visit to a cancer treatment charity, beginning his carefully managed comeback after the monarch’s own cancer diagnosis sidelined him for three months.
King Charles III is returning to public duties with a visit to a cancer treatment charity, beginning his carefully managed comeback after the monarch’s own cancer diagnosis sidelined him for three months.
1d ago

Philippines accuses China of damaging its vessel at hotly contested shoal

The Philippine coast guard said its two vessels stood their ground at the Scarborough Shoal, but that one was damaged from the use of water cannon by two Chinese coast guard ships.
The Philippines said the China Coast Guard fired water cannon on April 30 at two of its vessels, causing damage to one of them, during a patrol near a reef off the Southeast Asian country.
The Philippines said the China Coast Guard fired water cannon on April 30 at two of its vessels, causing damage to one of them, during a patrol near a reef off the Southeast Asian country.

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