Seven people were killed and four others wounded after a car carrying illegal migrants slammed into a building and overturned in a failed attempt to flee the police in southern Hungary. The deadly incident occurred late on Monday in the spa town of Morahalom not far from Hungary’s border with Serbia, police said in a […]
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Drone strike that killed children to go unpunished – Pentagon
No members of the US military involved in the Kabul drone strike that killed 10 civilians including 7 children during the retreat from Afghanistan will be penalized in any way, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin reportedly decided. The US Air Force’s inspector general investigated the August 29 drone strike and found no violations of law, […]
Dozens killed after cargo truck carrying migrants crashes & rolls over
At least 53 people were killed and dozens more injured after a vehicle reportedly carrying over 100 migrants from Central America rolled over and hit a bridge in Mexico. According to reports, at least 107 migrants had been packed by human traffickers into a trailer attached to the vehicle before it crashed in Chiapas on […]
Clashes erupt after Indian civilians killed in botched security raid
More than a dozen villagers have been gunned down in a botched security operation in northeastern India, on the border with Myanmar. The incident has sparked violent clashes between locals and law enforcement agents. Tensions have been running high in the Mon district of India’s northeastern Nagaland state after security forces conducted an “anti-insurgency” raid […]
At least 13 killed, scores injured in violent volcano eruption
Over a dozen people were killed and nearly 100 residents were injured after a volcano erupted on the Indonesian island of Java. The eruption, which occurred during a rainstorm, saw mud flows cutting off roads and destroying homes. Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) has confirmed the death of 13 people as result of the eruption […]
4 killed & 19 injured as massive storm batters Istanbul
At least four people were killed and a further 19 injured – some seriously – after severe weather struck the Turkish city of Istanbul on Monday, local authorities have announced. According to a statement from the governor’s office, one foreign national and three Turkish citizens have died, while three of the 19 injured remain in […]
Students killed in Kosovo bus shooting
Three people, including at least one teenage student, were killed in the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo when one or several gunmen opened fire on a bus. A bus driver and two passengers were killed on Friday when unknown assailants attacked the bus they were traveling on in the ethnic Albanian-majority village of Glodjane in the […]
Civilians killed in ‘Israeli strike’ on Syria – state TV
At least two civilians were killed and several soldiers wounded in an alleged Israeli air raid in central Syria, according to the country’s state media, which noted Syrian air defenses were activated to repel the attack. “The Israeli enemy carried out an air attack with bursts of missiles from the direction north-east of Beirut, targeting […]
Ten killed & dozens wounded at Sudan anti-coup rallies, medics say (VIDEOS)
At least ten people have been killed and several wounded by security forces during mass demonstrations in Sudan against the recent military coup, a medics organization has said. “The coup forces used live bullets heavily in different areas of the capital and there are tens of gunshot injuries, some of them in serious condition,” the […]
Knifeman tries to attack people & injures policeman in Oslo, gets killed by the officer
A shirtless man brandishing a knife attacked residents and a police officer on Tuesday before being shot. A police spokesman confirmed that the officer had been injured but not critically. Footage and photos shared online show a law enforcement vehicle ramming a shirtless man in the Norwegian capital as he brandished a knife and reportedly […]
Dozens of elementary school children killed in classroom blaze in Niger
At least 26 school children aged five to six were killed in a blaze in southern Niger after a thatched-roof classroom caught on fire, local officials said, with more than a dozen others injured, some critically. The deadly fire broke out on Monday morning in a makeshift classroom constructed from wood and straw in Niger’s […]
No ‘misconduct or negligence’ in US drone strike on Afghan aid worker that killed 7 children, Pentagon probe finds
The US airstrike that killed 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children, in August was not caused by misconduct or negligence, the Pentagon has found after an “independent review.” No disciplinary action has been recommended. It was a communications breakdown rather than any sort of malice or ineptitude, Air Force Lt. Gen. Sami Said suggested in […]
Senior Taliban commander among those killed in ISIS attack on Kabul hospital
A high-ranking Taliban military commander has been killed while repelling an Islamic State attack on Kabul’s main military hospital on Tuesday, the radical group, which now holds power in Afghanistan, has said. The commander of the Kabul corps, Hamdullah Mokhlis, lost his life in a gunfight with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants at Sardar […]
One killed after cable car plummets to ground in Czech mountains (VIDEO)
A cable car driver has been killed in the Czech Republic after his vehicle snapped and fell to the ground. The accident left some 15 people trapped in another cable car, with firefighters deployed to the scene to rescue them. The cable car detached from its cable at the Jested mountain in northern Czech Republic […]
Devastating Taiwanese fire that killed 46 and gutted apartment block blamed on woman who failed to extinguish burning incense
Taiwanese authorities announced on Friday that an apartment block fire which killed 46 people started because a female resident forgot to extinguish incense, resulting in a devastating blaze that gutted the 13-story building. The raging fire in the southern city of Kaohsiung on October 15 took hours to bring under control, as firefighters battled the […]










