Desperate people continued searching for loved ones in Myanmar Saturday as the death toll of Friday’s 7.7 devastating earthquake reportedly rose to at least 1,644, with thousands more listed as injured.
Footage obtained by Worthy News on Saturday purportedly shows two nurses shielding two infants in China’s Yunnan province from the impacts of a massive earthquake that killed more than 1,000 people in neighboring Myanmar and Thailand. “A touching moment during the tragedy,” said Tong Bingxue, an author and historian providing visual content about Greater China.
The death toll of an earthquake that turned even skyscrapers into rubble in Myanmar and Thailand was rapidly rising Thursday, with officials saying more than 150 people were killed and 700 injured.
A knife-wielding assailant in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam, seriously wounded five people in what the government said may have been a deliberate terrorist attack.
In a stark warning to lawmakers, General Anthony J. Cotton, Commander of U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Strategic Forces yesterday, revealing that Iran has significantly advanced its nuclear capabilities.
The European Union has urged its 450 million citizens to stockpile food, water, and other essentials to last at least 72 hours amid mounting concerns that the war in Ukraine will escalate into a broader armed conflict.
Hungary’s rightwing government warned Thursday that it will crack down on protests in Budapest if courts fail to do so amid growing public anger over perceived authoritarian policies and corruption.
South Korea’s Acting President Han Duck-soo said Thursday, “We are nationally in a critical situation with numerous casualties because of the unprecedented rapid spread of forest fires” that killed at least 27 people.
Survivors of the Holocaust will soon learn more about their painful past after Argentina’s president ordered the opening of all archives about Nazi fugitives who settled in Argentina following World War II.
The U.S. has extended the USS Harry S. Truman’s Red Sea deployment, dispatched another carrier to the Middle East, and deployed five B-2 stealth bombers to Diego Garcia—signaling that military strikes on Iran may be imminent as President Trump’s ultimatum to Iran’s Supreme Leader over its nuclear program looms.
In a breakthrough following U.S.-led talks in Saudi Arabia, the White House announced Tuesday that Russia and Ukraine separately agreed to halt military strikes in the Black Sea, marking a tentative step toward peace.
The Netherlands has seen a massive rise in euthanasia amid concerns that too many persons with psychiatric illnesses are among those ending their lives.
U.S. and Russian delegates wrapped up a day of tense talks on a plan for a ceasefire at sea between Kyiv and Moscow, even as a Russian missile strike in Ukraine wounded scores of people.
President Trump announced on Monday that a 25% tariff would be imposed on U.S. trade with any country that buys oil or gas from Venezuela, a retaliatory move for illegal Venezuelan immigration of criminals into the U.S. and further his policy of securing America’s borders.
The anti-Hamas mayor of Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city, has been suspended and jailed ahead of a corruption trial despite tens of thousands of protesters demanding his freedom.
Pope Francis has appeared in public for the first time in five weeks after an extensive hospitalization and will soon meet British King Charles III, officials said.
Just days after calling Israel “a terror state that feeds on blood,” Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is facing the biggest protests in a decade following the detention of his anti-Hamas political rival Ekrem Imamoglu.
Heathrow in London is “fully operational” after an “apocalyptic” fire at a nearby electrical substation brought Europe’s busiest airport to a standstill on Friday, its leadership says.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered an additional aircraft carrier to the Red Sea next month, in a substantial ramp-up of U.S. military presence in the Middle East. This rare move is intended to strengthen the Navy’s presence, coincides with increased airstrikes on Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, and aligns with President Donald Trump’s recent ultimatum to Iran’s Supreme Leader concerning its nuclear program.
Britain and the United States have refused to sign an international agreement on artificial intelligence (AI), citing fears that it could lead to “global governance” and the overregulation of new technology.