DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Floods wreaked more havoc in India’s northeast and neighboring Bangladesh’s eastern region, raising this week’s total death toll to 30, officials and media reports said Friday. Rain stopped in many parts of Bangladesh on Friday and weather officials in Dhaka said the waters had started receding in some areas, but said
A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted for the sixth time since December, on Thursday spewing lava through a new fissure on the Reykjanes Peninsula. The eruption began after 9 pm, and within the hour, a 2.4-mile fissure cut through the Sundhnúkur crater. As news of the eruption spread, hundreds of curious onlookers drove to nearby
Thousands of demonstrators in Jakarta attempted to storm the parliament building on Thursday to protest controversial revisions to the country’s election laws. Some were met with tear gas and water cannons after tearing down a section of fence and throwing rocks at police. (AP video by Dita Alangkara) Thousands of demonstrators in Jakarta attempted to
A court in Romania’s capital has placed the divisive internet influencer Andrew Tate under house arrest for 30 days. Prosecutors are investigating a sprawling new case that involves allegations of human trafficking of minors and sex with a minor. Speaking outside the court Tate called the allegations, which he and his brother deny, “absolutely disgusting”.
BERLIN (AP) — Berlin Zoo announced Friday that longtime resident giant panda Meng Meng has given birth to twins — for a second time. The cubs were born on Thursday and are doing well, the zoo said in a statement. They were born only 11 days after ultrasound scans showed that Meng Meng, 11, was
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A woman plunged Friday into an 8-meter (26 feet) deep sinkhole in the Kuala Lumpur city center after the pavement she was on caved in, burying her along, Malaysian authorities said. The incident happened in Dang Wangi area of the Malaysian capital, where local police chief Sulizmie Affendy Sulaiman said
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived on Friday in Kyiv, where he will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the chief of Ukraine’s Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak. Officials in India and Ukraine say the visit will focus on boosting economic ties and cooperation in defense, science and technology. Ukrainian media
BANGKOK (AP) — Searchers dug into the mud of a flooded mangrove swamp outside Bangkok on Friday for plane fragments and the remains of the five Chinese passengers and four Thai flight crew members believed killed in a crash shortly after takeoff. Around 300 officers and rescue volunteers have been searching the crash site and
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A bus carrying dozens of Indian pilgrims drove off a highway Friday in Nepal , leaving several people injured or missing. The bus veered off the highway and rolled toward a fast-flowing river, stopping on the rocky bank. The top part of the bus had been ripped but the wreckage did
BERLIN (AP) — Security at a NATO air base in western Germany has been raised because of intelligence information pointing to a “potential threat,” and all staff not essential to missions have been sent home as a precaution, NATO said. The Geilenkirchen air base, near the border with the Netherlands, is where the alliance’s Airborne
