At least 13 people have died after landslides submerged dozens of homes in Uganda, relief workers said Thursday. The landslides were a consequence of heavy rains on Wednesday night in the mountainous district of Bulambuli, where landslides occur frequently. The Uganda Red Cross Society said 13 bodies have been recovered while rescue efforts are still ongoing. Death toll […]
The Red Cross said emergency crews had found the sole survivor and were trying to rescue her. Source link
California will revive its own subsidy programs for electric vehicles if Donald Trump guts US federal tax breaks for such cars, the state’s governor said Monday. The president-elect has said repeatedly he would scrap what he called the “electric vehicle mandate” — actually a $7,500 federal rebate for anyone who purchases an EV. Gavin Newsom, […]
11/23/2024November 23, 2024 Israeli airstrike kills at least four in central Beirut An Israeli airstrike killed at least four people and wounded 23 others in central Beirut early Saturday, Lebanese authorities said. “Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five […]
Article content NORWAY HOUSE, Man. — A police officer fatally shot an armed teenager on a First Nation north of Lake Winnipeg, RCMP said Friday. Mounties said it followed a report earlier in the day that a man was “agitated” and armed with an “edged weapon” in a home on Norway House Cree Nation. He […]
An Israeli airstrike on the Syrian town of Palmyra killed 36 people and injured more than 50 on Wednesday, Syrian state-run media reported. The SANA news agency said the attack caused “significant material damage to the targeted buildings and surrounding areas.” Israel frequently targets military sites linked to Iran-backed groups in Syria but rarely acknowledges […]
An Israeli airstrike killed four people in a central Beirut neighbourhood on Monday, said Lebanon’s health ministry, the second day in a row Israel has hit a target within the capital as it presses its campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah. Source link
A Russian missile strike killed 11 people, including two children, in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy on Sunday evening, authorities in Ukraine said Monday. The missile strike on a nine-story apartment building prompted an evacuation of more than 400 residents from the damaged building, according to Ukraine’s state emergency service. Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office identified two […]
A rare Israeli strike in central Beirut killed the chief spokesman for the Hezbollah militant group on Sunday, while an Israeli strike in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya killed at least 30 people, the director of a hospital there told The Associated Press. Mohammed Afif, the head of media relations for Hezbollah, was killed in a […]
An Israeli strike on a building in central Beirut on Sunday killed Hezbollah’s media relations chief Mohammad Afif, two Lebanese security sources told Reuters, though there was no immediate confirmation from the Iran-backed group. Israel has rarely hit senior Hezbollah staff who do not have clear military roles, and its air strikes have mostly targeted […]