BERLIN — Five people were injured in southwestern Germany Sunday afternoon when a carnival float burst into flames, police said. Around 3 p.m. local time in Kehl, a city in southwestern Germany along the border with France, part of a float participating in a local parade caught fire. The parade was part of Fasnacht, the … Read more
BEIJING — A landslide buried 47 people in a remote village in mountainous southwestern China on Monday, state media said. Hours later, two survivors were rescued amid freezing temperatures and falling snow. The disaster struck just before 6 a.m. in the village of Liangshui in the northeastern part of Yunnan province. By evening, nine bodies … Read more
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted for the second time in less than a month on Sunday, sending lava snaking toward a nearby community and setting at least one home on fire. The eruption, which began just before 8 a.m. local time, came after authorities evacuated the town of Grindavik following a … Read more
Pakistani police say gunmen shot and killed six construction workers overnight in the volatile southwestern Baluchistan province ByThe Associated Press October 14, 2023, 2:53 AM QUETTA, Pakistan — Gunmen shot and killed six construction workers overnight in the volatile southwestern Baluchistan province, Pakistani police said Saturday. Police officer Hidayatullah Dashti said gunmen opened fire overnight … Read more
QUETTA, Pakistan — A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of people celebrating the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 52 people and wounding nearly 70 others, authorities said, in one of the country’s deadliest attacks targeting civilians in months. An open area near a mosque was … Read more