At least eleven people have been killed in a mass shooting at a house in KwaMakhutha township, near the city of Durban. Police said three gunmen armed with pistols and rifles entered the…

Twenty-one people, including five children, have died after a six-storey apartment building collapsed in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa district. The building, which was sheltering more than 100 displaced Palestinians, had been damaged during…

Philippine authorities say identifying victims of the MV June Aster ferry fire could take weeks or months because many bodies were badly burned. The vessel was travelling from Manila to Coron in Palawan…

Fourteen men have gone on trial in Paris over the 2021 English Channel disaster in which more than 30 migrants died or disappeared while attempting to reach Britain. The defendants face charges including…

A specialist Turkish naval team has begun searching deep waters for the wreckage of a ferry which capsized off northern Cyprus, leaving twenty people missing. At least eight people died after the twin-hulled…

At least 27 people have died after a minibus carrying members of an indigenous African Christian denomination collided head-on with a haulage truck in central Zimbabwe on 28 August. Police said the truck,…

At least 47 people have been killed, more than 50 kidnapped and 22 injured in a major gang attack on Kenscoff, near Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince. Armed men reportedly set homes ablaze, killed residents,…

A state of emergency has been declared in Colombia after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake killed at least 160 people and caused widespread damage. Among the buildings affected was the country’s tallest cathedral, nearly…

Flash floods triggered by torrential rain have caused widespread devastation in Afghanistan’s eastern Nuristan province, killing at least twenty people and leaving more than 100 missing. The provincial capital, Parun, suffered the greatest…

At least nine people have been killed in renewed violence in Pakistan-administered Kashmir as political tensions continue to escalate. Clashes broke out after security forces carried out an operation near Rawalakot and later…