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Rainfall is expected to peak on Saturday morning and continue to batter Taiwan until Saturday evening, the Central Weather Administration said.Taiwanese authorities have urged people to stay away from coasts and mountains.Work and classes were suspended in nearly all...

The Kenyan man had travelled from the Democratic Republic of Congo through Uganda before arriving in Nairobi on 3 October. He later died, becoming Kenya's first recorded Ebola death in the current outbreak.Although both patients passed through Entebbe airport...

A blaze that killed four soldiers and injured several dozen more on a military base in the Canadian province of Alberta last week broke out on a grenade launcher range during training exercises, officials said...

A magnitude seven earthquake has hit a mountainous region in Tibet, killing at least 16 people, according to Chinese state media reports.The centre of the quake hit Baqên County in the Nagqu region on Thursday night, Xinhua reported, citing...

"Being the ambassador to Russia was probably the hardest assignment of my career," Lynne Tracy, who represented the US in Moscow from 2023 and 2025, tells the BBC.US, UK and European diplomats once played a crucial role in Russia,...

The attacks culminated in an RSF raid on 8 June. Hospital staff were taken by surprise - many of them escaped over the back wall as the RSF fighters entered the building, says Dr Mustafa Ahmed, a pharmaceutical specialist.But...

Elon Musk has restored Ukraine's internet access, Donald Trump has said.The US president was speaking hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said connectivity, which is provided by Musk's satellite-based Starlink system, had yet to be fully restored.Musk has previously...

More than a dozen people were killed and hundreds of homes destroyed when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit China's Tibet region on Thursday...

Amy Acton, the Democratic candidate for governor of the US state of Ohio, has called an attack ad against her that features her estranged mother "despicable". Acton commented on the campaign ad from her Republican opponent, Vivek Ramaswamy, on...

Kyiv has been hit by another round of missile strikes hours after Russia agreed to resume peace talks on Wednesday. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said the three waves of missiles were launched by "Russian humanitarians". This comes after US...