YPG militants clash with Syrian forces in Aleppo after ceasefire violation
Clashes have broken out in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo after Kurdish YPG militants allegedly violated a ceasefire agreement and attacked Syrian...
Firefighters are struggling to contain a fast-moving wildfire in central California that has injured three people and is threatening hundreds of homes.
The Gifford Fire, burning through Los Padres National Forest, has spread across more than 259 square kilometres (100 square miles) in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, with only 3% containment as of Monday, according to local authorities.
The fire began Friday as multiple smaller blazes along State Route 166 between Santa Maria and Bakersfield before merging into a single large wildfire. At least 450 structures remain under threat.
Officials said one resident was hospitalised with burn injuries. Two contract workers assisting firefighters were also injured when their all-terrain vehicle overturned.
More than 1,000 personnel are working in hot, dry conditions to contain the fire ahead of forecast sundowner winds, which could bring erratic gusts of up to 40 kilometres per hour later in the day, complicating efforts to hold fire lines.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
Heads of state are due to start arriving in the Amazonian city of Belém in a month’s time for the United Nations climate summit, yet much of the infrastructure intended to welcome them remains incomplete.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to meet in person following a friendly video call on Monday, raising hopes of improving relations strained by tariffs and political disputes.
Clashes have broken out in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo after Kurdish YPG militants allegedly violated a ceasefire agreement and attacked Syrian forces and civilians.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has pledged to further strengthen his country’s alliance with Russia, in a letter to President Vladimir Putin marking his birthday and praising his leadership.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has alleged that Russian missiles and drones contain tens of thousands of components sourced from Western companies, calling for stricter sanctions to block these supply chains.
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