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Vietnam flood deaths reach 90 as damage sweeps central region
Bloomberg, Published on 23/11/2025
» Severe and prolonged flooding across Central Vietnam has killed 90 people and left 12 others missing, the government said.
Worker dies after medieval tower partly collapses in Rome
AFP, Published on 04/11/2025
» ROME - A worker who was pulled from the rubble of a medieval tower that partly collapsed in Rome died on Tuesday, Italian media reported citing hospital sources.
Japan in political crisis as coalition collapses
AFP, Published on 10/10/2025
» TOKYO - Japan's ruling coalition collapsed Friday as junior partner Komeito quit the alliance, putting in peril Sanae Takaichi's bid to become the country's first woman prime minister.
Pakistan building collapse kills at least 7
AFP, Published on 04/07/2025
» KARACHI - A five-storey building collapsed in Pakistan on Friday, killing at least seven people and injuring eight, officials said, with rescuers searching through the rubble for trapped victims.
If Iran's Khamenei falls, what would replace him?
AFP, Published on 19/06/2025
» PARIS - Israel increasingly appears eager to oust the clerical leadership that has ruled Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution but is taking a gamble given the Iranian opposition is divided and there is no guarantee new rulers would be any less hardline, analysts say.
At least 7 dead after Russian bridge collapses onto railway
AFP, Published on 01/06/2025
» MOSCOW - At least seven people were killed late Saturday and dozens injured after a bridge collapsed onto a railway in a Russian region bordering Ukraine, officials said, in an incident the railway operator blamed on "illegal interference".
Trump’s global ‘baseline’ tariff takes effect
AFP, Published on 05/04/2025
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump’s widest-ranging tariffs to date began to take effect on Saturday, in a move that could trigger retaliation and escalating trade tensions that could upset the global economy.
Germany's coalition collapses, leaving the government teetering
New York Times, Published on 07/11/2024
» BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired his finance minister Wednesday, effectively ending his three-party ruling coalition and destabilising his centre-left government just as the election of Donald Trump in the United States presented Europe with new economic and security challenges.
‘Nazi takeover’ plotters arrested in Germany
Bloomberg News, Published on 05/11/2024
» Eight men suspected of plotting to install a Nazi regime in eastern states of Germany were arrested amid a massive police operation early Tuesday.
German hotel collapses, killing one; eight others trapped
Reuters, Published on 07/08/2024
» KROEV - A hotel partially collapsed overnight near the banks of the Moselle River in Germany, killing one person and trapping eight others, some of whom suffered severe injuries in the incident, local police said on Wednesday.