Trump pledges U.S. military support to protect Qatar
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order pledging U.S. military support to defend Qatar if it comes under attack, following last mont...
At least 14 people have now died, two people remain missing and hundreds are displaced after floods swept through Indonesia’s holiday island of Bali this week, officials said Wednesday.
Continuous heavy rains from Tuesday evening through to Wednesday affected around 600 residents, according to Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency.
Five fatalities were reported in the capital, Denpasar, while four more occurred in the regions of Jembrana, Gianyar, and Badung. Nearly 200 residents have fled their homes and moved to schools and mosques.
The floods destroyed two buildings in Denpasar and blocked major roads, limiting access to the island’s international airport. Only trucks were able to navigate the roads.
About 200 rescuers have been deployed to assist with evacuation and relief efforts. Authorities have distributed tents, food, blankets, mattresses, water pumps, and rubber boats to affected areas.
Heavy rain also caused flooding in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara, killing four more people.
President Prabowo Subianto expressed his condolences and instructed the national disaster agency to lead the emergency response in Bali and ensure residents’ basic needs are met.
A day of mourning has been declared in Portugal to pay respect to victims who lost their lives in the Lisbon Funicular crash which happened on Wednesday evening.
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.
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.
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order pledging U.S. military support to defend Qatar if it comes under attack, following last month’s Israeli airstrikes on Doha that intensified regional tensions.
Qarabağ claimed their second win in the UEFA Champions League group stage with a 2-0 victory over Copenhagen at the Tofig Bahramov Republican Stadium in Baku on Wednesday.
Contact has been lost with several vessels in the Global Sumud Flotilla, organisers said on Wednesday evening, as the ships continued their attempt to reach Gaza with humanitarian aid.
French naval personnel have boarded a Russia-linked oil tanker suspected of being used to launch drone flights that disrupted airports in Denmark last month.
The foreign minister of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) Tahsin Ertugruloglu has strongly criticised the UN Security Council, accusing it of depriving the Turkish Cypriot people for six decades through failed negotiations on the Cyprus issue.
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