Romanian authorities say an explosion at a chain home improvement store in the northeast of the country has injured at least 13 people, four seriously.
The Stockholm-based Royal Swedish Opera has been fined after a stage technician died last year when he fell more than 40 feet from a balcony, officials say.
Washington state's prison system operates the a program that trains inmates to become skilled firefighters. The inmates receive extensive training to combat forest fires.
Officials say a passenger train collided head-on with a freight train in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, killing at least four people and injuring 27 others.
A helicopter pilot in New Hampshire lost control during a landing and plummeted near a residence in a fiery crash on Saturday afternoon, state police said.
An Ex-criminology professor was jailed for 5 years Thursday for going on a "arson spree" during the Dixie Fires in California in 2021, often igniting fires being firefighters
A massive landslide in Papua New Guinea buried Yambali village, leaving hundreds feared dead. Survivors are hesitant to evacuate, fearing another landslide.
A truck carrying 40,000 pounds of strawberries overturned on a California highway ramp on Wednesday morning, creating a traffic jam that lasted for hours.
One person is dead after a fatal explosion occurred at a house in southern Wisconsin, according to police. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Officials say a speeding passenger bus fell off a highway into a ravine on Wednesday in southwest Pakistan, killing at least 28 people and injuring 20.
A previous warning said Tehran has enough uranium enriched to near-weapons-grade levels to make "several" nuclear bombs if it chose to do so, and the country continues increasing stockpile.
A stone quarry in northeastern India collapsed on Tuesday due to heavy rains from tropical storm Remal, killing 13 workers and leaving 16 missing, authorities say.
International help has been formally requested by Papua New Guinea following a massive landslide that reportedly buried 2,000 people and 150 homes near Yambali village.
A privately-owned amusement park was the site of a deadly fire which has claimed nearly 27 lives, spurring Prime Minister Modi to post on social media.
A massive landslide struck a village in Papua New Guinea on Friday, burying more than 50 homes and causing hundreds of fatalities, according to officials.
Rescuers in western India were searching through debris after an explosion and fire at a chemical factory killed at least nine people and injured 64 others.
An overnight fire in an apartment building in Vietnam resulted in 14 deaths and six injuries. The fire started in a courtyard used for selling and repairing electric bikes.
Unprecedented flooding in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul has upended transportation, closing the airport in the capital Porto Alegre and segments of major highways.
Spanish emergency authorities said four people were killed and several others were seriously injured after a building collapsed on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca.
A Republican senator shared her dissatisfaction with the Biden administration's response to concerns of dozens of lawmakers regarding potential refugees from Gaza.
One person was killed and three were injured on Thursday after an explosion that was likely due to a natural gas tank that was left on, authorities say.
Two men have been reported dead from the same waterborne bacterial disease in southern Brazil, where flooding over around a two-week period forced over 600,000 people from their homes.
The U.N. said a rare tornado has left more than 50 people injured and destroyed over 200 homes in the community of Bassin-Bleu in Haiti; 10 people were hospitalized after being 'seriously injured.'
A woman has been reported dead in Sombor, Serbia, after a tree fell on her car during a heavy Tuesday storm, according to Interior Minister Ivica Dacic.
Britain's government officials say thousands of victims of the U.K.’s infected blood scandal will start receiving their final compensation payments this year.
Six Egyptian women have died after a vehicle carrying about two dozen people reportedly slid off a ferry and plunged into the Nile River just outside Cairo.
Nine Egyptian men have been acquitted by a Greek judge of charges related to a shipwreck that killed more than 500 migrants. The judge dismissed the case.
Five rescue dogs from Ecuador’s Fire Department were formally retired after seven years of service and honored at a ceremony on Monday, authorities say.
There was "no sign of life" reported Monday at the crash site of the helicopter that was carrying Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi and other officials, according to Iranian state media.
Multiple eruptions from Indonesian volcano Mount Ibu led to authorities evacuating seven villages within a four-mile radius of the geologic activity on Sunday.
Tens of thousands of Haitians and Venezuelans who fled to southern Brazil are struggling to rebuild their lives after severe flooding in Rio Grande do Sul.
Authorities say an exhaustive rescue operation to find missing construction workers trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building in South Africa is ending.
The threat of Canada's latest wildfire near the country's oil sands appears to be dying down, with favorable winds expected to push the fire away from the city.
Authorities say a fire at a residential building in western Germany has left three people dead and two others with life-threatening injuries. The fire started in a kiosk.
Indonesian authorities have seeded clouds in a bid to prevent further rainfall after flash floods that hit the country's Sumatra Island over the weekend left at least 59 people dead.
A welding operation at a water park under construction in Sweden's Goteborg led to a massive fire in February, resulting in one fatality, according to a report.
In Pakistan, a drone-launched missile hit a house in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold near the Afghan border on Tuesday, killing at least four villagers.
Rescuers are searching for bodies, and whenever possible survivors, of flash floods that hit Indonesia’s Sumatra Island over the weekend, authorities say.
Mine authorities in southern Poland say that two miners are dead and one is missing while 12 others were hurt following a cave-in at the Myslowice-Wesola coal mine.
A severe thunderstorm is believed to have caused a large billboard to collapse, killing at least 14 people and injuring 74 others, city officials said.
Crews used explosives on Monday to break apart a section of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore that was still sitting on top of the container ship Dali.
Many survivors are still searching for their loved ones after unusually heavy rains led to devastating floods in parts of Afghanistan; hundreds of people were killed and thousands of homes destroyed.
In Indonesia, heavy rains and a landslide caused a river to overflow its banks, resulting in flash floods that have killed at least 44 people with 15 still missing.
A billboard collapse in Mumbai's suburb of Ghatkopar resulted in three fatalities and 59 injuries during thunderstorms and heavy rain, according to officials.
In Sudan's civil war, fire is being used to burn villages and displace civilians with more frequency than before. April 2024 saw more fires than any other month of the war.
Rescue crews in South Africa are still working to recover workers who were trapped underneath rubble when an apartment building collapsed. One worker was found alive after six days.
A fire engulfed a large shopping complex in Warsaw, Poland, on Sunday. While no injuries were reported, the fire destroyed more than 80% of the complex.
At least 11 people were killed on Sunday in Indonesia after a bus slammed into cars and motorbikes after its brakes reportedly malfunctioned, officials said.
In southern Brazil, a volunteer-led makeshift dog shelter has been set up in an abandoned warehouse to aid dogs displaced by devastating floods, officials say.
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