At least 569 Rohingya were reported to have died or gone missing while trying to flee Myanmar or Bangladesh in 2023, the highest toll since 2014, the UN refugee agency said, calling for urgent action to protect the ethnic minority group. The deaths or disappearances occurred during

At least 40 people were killed after a tunnel collapsed in a gold mine in Mali, officials say. "It started with a noise. The earth started to shake," Oumar Sidibe, a local official for gold miners told the AFP news agency. The tunnel collapsed at a site in the

At least 39 people have been killed and nine injured in a fire that started in the basement of a shop in the Chinese city of Xinyu. State media said the fire started on Wednesday afternoon local time in the city in Jiangxi province. Footage from state-backed Global Times showed

Saudi Arabia is preparing to open its first alcohol store in the capital Riyadh, Reuters reported a source familiar with the plans saying. Customers will have to register via a mobile app, get a clearance code from the Foreign Ministry, and respect monthly quotas with their purchases,

A Russian Ilyushin-76 military transport plane has crashed in the southern Belgorod region bordering Ukraine. At least 65 people Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed, according to Russia's ministry of defence. Ria Novosti news agency said another nine people were on board,

Ottawa: Six people died when a small commuter plane carrying workers to a mine in Canada's far north crashed Tuesday shortly after taking off, a source said. One person survived, according to this aviation source with knowledge of the crash probe, who asked not to be named as they

The US says its forces have carried out strikes in Iraq on three facilities used by Iran-backed militia. The "proportionate" strikes targeted "Kataib Hezbollah militia group and other Iran-affiliated groups", Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said. He said the

Donald Trump wins the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary, the BBC's US partner CBS projects. It is a significant victory for the former president and puts him in a commanding position to become the party's presidential candidate in November. His last remaining

The Israeli army says 21 of its soldiers have been killed in Gaza - the deadliest day for Israeli forces since the start of their ground operation. Chief spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Daniel Hagari, said it is thought a rocket-propelled grenade hit a tank near two

At least 65 Palestinians were killed in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis on Monday as Israel intensifies attacks on the city. Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) reports that staff in Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis say they can feel the “ground

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the Kyrgyzstan-Xinjiang border region on Tuesday with reports of several injuries and collapsed houses, Chinese state media reported. The epicentre of the quake struck at 2:09 a.m. (1809 GMT) and at a depth of 22 km (13 miles) in the mountainous border

Rescuers in China are racing to find dozens of people who are still left missing after a landslide struck a city in Yunnan province. The landslide in Zhaotong occurred at 05:51 local time (21:51 GMT) on Monday, trapping 47 people and killing 11. President Xi Jinping has ordered an

The US and UK have conducted a fresh series of joint air strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. The Pentagon said Monday's strikes hit eight targets, including an underground storage site and Houthi missile and surveillance capability. The Iran-backed Houthis have been

Vietnam sentenced nine people to death and two others to life in prison on Monday for their involvement in a cross-border drug trafficking ring, state media reported. The Southeast Asian country has some of the world's toughest drug laws, and is notoriously secretive about its

More than 25,000 people have now been killed in Gaza during Israel's offensive there, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. It said there had been 178 deaths in the last 24 hours, making it one of the deadliest days in the war so far. As fighting continued, Israel's

Nearly 90 weather-related deaths have been recorded across the US after the country was pummelled by ferocious winter storms for the past week. The deaths include at least 25 in Tennessee and 16 in Oregon, which remains under a state of emergency following severe ice storms. Tens of

At least 27 people have been killed in a shelling attack in the Russian-held city of Donetsk, the Moscow-installed leader of the region says. Denis Pushilin described the strike on a busy market as "horrendous", and said the number of casualties could rise. A Ukrainian

At least 47 people have been buried in a landslide on Monday morning in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan, according to state media. President Xi Jinping has urged all-out search and rescue efforts in order to minimise casualties as much as possible. Rescue efforts are

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Donald Trump. He quit ahead of the Republican primary election in New Hampshire, where he was polling in the single digits. Mr DeSantis was once considered a strong contender for the party's

A passenger plane heading toward Russia has crashed in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, Afghan television channel TOLOnews quoted an official as saying on Sunday. The plane crashed in the mountainous Topkhana area of Kuran-wa-Munjan district on Saturday evening,