Rescuers in China are racing to find dozens of people who are still left missing after a landslide struck a city in Yunnan province. The landslide in Zhaotong occurred at 05:51 local time (21:51 GMT) on Monday, trapping 47 people and killing 11. President Xi Jinping has ordered an

The US and UK have conducted a fresh series of joint air strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. The Pentagon said Monday's strikes hit eight targets, including an underground storage site and Houthi missile and surveillance capability. The Iran-backed Houthis have been

Vietnam sentenced nine people to death and two others to life in prison on Monday for their involvement in a cross-border drug trafficking ring, state media reported. The Southeast Asian country has some of the world's toughest drug laws, and is notoriously secretive about its

More than 25,000 people have now been killed in Gaza during Israel's offensive there, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. It said there had been 178 deaths in the last 24 hours, making it one of the deadliest days in the war so far. As fighting continued, Israel's

Nearly 90 weather-related deaths have been recorded across the US after the country was pummelled by ferocious winter storms for the past week. The deaths include at least 25 in Tennessee and 16 in Oregon, which remains under a state of emergency following severe ice storms. Tens of

At least 27 people have been killed in a shelling attack in the Russian-held city of Donetsk, the Moscow-installed leader of the region says. Denis Pushilin described the strike on a busy market as "horrendous", and said the number of casualties could rise. A Ukrainian

At least 47 people have been buried in a landslide on Monday morning in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan, according to state media. President Xi Jinping has urged all-out search and rescue efforts in order to minimise casualties as much as possible. Rescue efforts are

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Donald Trump. He quit ahead of the Republican primary election in New Hampshire, where he was polling in the single digits. Mr DeSantis was once considered a strong contender for the party's

A passenger plane heading toward Russia has crashed in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, Afghan television channel TOLOnews quoted an official as saying on Sunday. The plane crashed in the mountainous Topkhana area of Kuran-wa-Munjan district on Saturday evening,

India plans to erect a fence along its vast and porous frontier with Myanmar and will scrap a free movement border zone agreement, Indian media reported Sunday. The announcement by Home Minister Amit Shah comes after hundreds of troops from Myanmar who were fleeing insurgent attacks

Between 10,000 and 15,000 people were killed in one city in Sudan’s West Darfur region last year in ethnic violence by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militia, according to a United Nations report. In the report to the UN Security Council, seen by

An Israeli strike on Dama­scus killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps’s (IRGC) spy chief for Syria and four other Guards members on Saturday, Tehran said, in an attack that tore into a multi-storey residential building. Iran condemned the strike as a “desperate

There have been 83 confirmed weather-related fatalities linked to the past week's winter weather, according to a CBS News tally, even as dangerous cold continues to impact the nation.  The Tennessee Department of Health has confirmed 19 weather-related fatalities, and Oregon

The right of the Palestinian people to build their own state “must be recognized by all,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Uganda on Saturday. “The refusal to accept a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians, and

Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, on Friday voted to ease the law on naturalization and widen access to dual citizenship.  The German government says the law should help make Germany more attractive to skilled workers internationally, helping to ease stifling

Fire has broken out over a large area of an oil storage depot in southern Russia after officials say it was hit by a Ukrainian drone. Russian media say four oil tanks caught alight and the fire then spread over an area of 1,000 sq m (10,763sq ft). Russian authorities in the Bryansk

A key member of Israel's war cabinet has accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of not telling the truth about the country's military goals in Gaza. Mr Netanyahu has publicly rejected the US push for a future Palestinian state and insisted the offensive would continue

Thirteen people have died in a school dormitory fire in central China's Henan province, the official Xinhua news agency reported Saturday. The blaze at the Yingcai School in Henan's Yanshanpu village was reported to the local fire department at 11 p.m. (1500 GMT) Friday night,

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has been targeted with a criminal complaint during a visit to Switzerland, Swiss prosecutors said Friday, amid allegations of crimes against humanity over the war in Gaza. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office (BA) confirmed that it had received a

Parents of school students who were on the boat that capsized in a lake in India's Gujarat state have alleged that their children were "not given life jackets". Twelve pupils, aged between seven and 12 years, and two teachers, drowned in the incident on Thursday in Harni