Twelve days after a devastating earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, more than 46,000 people have died and more than 84,000 buildings have either been severely damaged, need urgent demolition, or collapsed, according to officials. As Turkey attempts to manage its worst modern disaster,

French President Emmanuel Macron has said he does not want to see Russia crushed by a defeat in Ukraine. Speaking to French media, Mr Macron urged Western nations to increase military support for Kyiv and said he was prepared for a protracted war. "I want Russia to be defeated

More than 45,000 people have been killed in the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria. The toll is expected to soar with some 264,000 apartments in Turkey destroyed and many still missing in the country's worst modern disaster. Total number of people killed in Turkey has hit

A lone gunman killed six people in a rural Mississippi town on Friday, including his ex-wife, in a "series of shootings," officials said. A suspect is in custody, according to the Tate County Sheriff's Office, and was identified as 52-year-old Richard Dale Crum of

Police in Bulgaria on Friday discovered an abandoned truck containing the bodies of 18 migrants, who appeared to have suffocated to death. The Interior Ministry said that according to initial information, the truck was carrying about 40 migrants and the survivors were taken to nearby

Law enforcement agencies (LEAs) on Friday night cleared the five-story office of Pakistan’s Karachi police chief after nearly a four-hour operation - weeks after a deadly attack in Peshawar’s Police Lines.   At least three militants blew themselves, while two were

Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has suffered more than 30,000 casualties since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last February, with about 9,000 of those fighters killed in action, the United States has claimed. The US estimates that 90 percent of Wagner Group fighters killed in

At least 53 people have been killed in an attack in Syria’s central desert province of Homs, state media has reported, blaming the killings on ISIL (ISIS). The bodies of the victims that were taken to the Palmyra state hospital had gunshot wounds to the head, state news agency

Indian tax authorities say they have uncovered irregularities in the BBC's accounting books after searches at the broadcaster's offices in the country. The statement, which does not directly name the BBC, comes after officials carried out a three-day operation at premises in

The death toll from the earthquake rose to nearly 44,000 on Friday, as hopes of finding survivors faded. The number of deaths recorded in Syria has so far reached 5,800, a number that has barely seen any increase in the past days. Turkey's relief agency AFAD stated that the

A Bangladeshi national, who had come to Kolkata for his wife's cancer treatment, was allegedly duped of Rs 10 lakh by a New Town resident. The victim, Md Nizamuddin, a resident of Dhaka, alleged that he had given the money to the accused, Shipan Kumar Basu - who reportedly runs a

The search of BBC offices in India by tax officials has ended after three days. The authorities entered the offices in New Delhi and Mumbai on Tuesday, with staff facing lengthy questioning or told to stay at the office overnight. The BBC said: "We will continue to co-operate

Recovery efforts continue in hard-hit areas of New Zealand on Friday after Cyclone Gabrielle caused chaos, leaving at least seven people dead and displacing 10,000 people in the country’s most damaging storm in decades. The cyclone, which hit New Zealand on Sunday before making

Alarm is growing over the World Food Programme’s (WFP) plan to cut food aid to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh because of a severe shortfall in funding. The WFP, the United Nations food agency, has said it will need to cut rations to the

Rescue workers on Thursday pulled a 12-year-old boy out alive from the under the rubble in Turkey’s earthquake zone, according to Turkish news agency Anadolu, which also reports that the death toll from the earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria on 6 February has now topped 41,000.

A 17-year-old girl has been rescued from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Kahramanmaras, 248 hours after the earthquake that killed more than 40,000 people in Turkey and Syria. The state broadcaster TRT Haber reported the rescue on Thursday. Source: The National BDST:

One person was killed and three more were wounded Wednesday in a shooting at a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, adding to the dozens of people already killed this year in mass shootings across the United States. El Paso police said hours after the gunfire that two people had been taken

An overwhelmed New Zealand has said it is open to offers of international assistance as it battles with the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle, which caused widespread flooding and landslides in the country’s north and cut off some towns. Five people have been confirmed dead after

With the cause of Scottish independence stalled by a Westminster government veto on a new referendum, nationalist leader Nicola Sturgeon on Wednesday offered a new approach to break the deadlock — her resignation as first minister of Scotland. But Sturgeon’s departure also

The total number of deaths rose to at least 41,219 on Tuesday after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria on Feb. 6, according to Turkish and Syrian officials. There were 35,418 people killed in Turkey, according to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.