Alberta announced a state of emergency on Saturday as 103 wildfires flared across the Canadian province, forcing 25,000 people to flee their homes in what a top official said was an “unprecedented” crisis. Thousands more have been told to be ready to leave on a

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva revealed on Saturday that King Charles III, a fervent environmentalist, had personally asked him to protect the Amazon rainforest. Lula and the British monarch met at Buckingham Palace in London on Friday evening, on the eve of the

Vietnam posted a record high temperature of 44.1 degrees Celsius on Saturday, officials said. The reading from a weather station in the north-central Thanh Hoa province breaks the country's previous high of 43.4 degrees and comes only a month after much of South Asia endured

King Charles III and Queen Camilla have been crowned at Westminster Abbey, marking the symbolic beginning of a new royal era in Britain, and a personal fulfillment for a man who has spent more than seven decades in waiting. In a lavish and archaic ritual not seen in Britain since 1953,

Pakistan is set to host a day-long trilateral dialogue with China and Afghanistan in Islamabad after the arrival of the Chinese and Afghan foreign ministers, Qin Gang and Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, on Friday. In addition to attending the fifth round of the trilateral dialogue between

Iran has executed a Swedish-Iranian dissident convicted of leading an Arab separatist group accused of attacks, including one on a military parade in 2018 that killed 25 people, state media has reported. Habib Farajollah Chaab was sentenced to death for being “corrupt on

At least 176 people have been killed in flash floods in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a regional official says Torrential rain in South Kivu province caused a river to overflow on Thursday and led to significant damage and loss of life in the villages of Bushushu and

A strong, shallow earthquake hit central Japan on Friday afternoon, killing at least one person and injuring 13 others, but no tsunami warning was issued. The magnitude 6.2 quake struck Ishikawa prefecture on the west coast of Japan’s main island of Honshu, the US Geological

Chatbots pretending to be journalists have been discovered running almost 50 AI-generated “content farms” so far, according to an investigation by the anti-misinformation outfit NewsGuard. The websites churn out content relating to politics, health, environment, finance and

A Venezuelan mayor was arrested Thursday on hate crime charges following an outcry after he described a mural painted by autistic children as "horrific." Ernesto Paraqueima, mayor of the eastern city of El Tigre, was arrested for "promotion and incitement" of

At least seven teachers were killed in a shooting at a school in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, in an apparent retaliation to an earlier attack in which another teacher was shot dead, Geo TV reported. Both incidents took place on Thursday in the Parachinar area of Kurram tribal

Torrential rains caused flooding in western and northern Rwanda, killing at least 129 people, a public broadcaster said Wednesday. The death toll “continues to rise,” the Rwanda Broadcasting Agency said Wednesday. “This could be the highest disaster-induced death

Iran has seized an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz in what is the second such incident in the region in a week, as tension with the United States continues. The Middle East-based US 5th Fleet and Iranian media confirmed on Wednesday that the naval force of the Islamic Revolutionary

Russia claimed Wednesday that Ukraine tried to assassinate President Vladimir Putin in an overnight drone attack on the Kremlin, news that drew denials from Kyiv and furious demands for retaliation from nationalists in Moscow. The Kremlin's accusation, made without providing

The United Nations announced Tuesday night that its premier prize for press freedom has been awarded to three imprisoned Iranian female journalists “for their commitment to truth and accountability.” The winners are Niloufar Hamedi who broke the news that 22-year-old Mahsa

An explosive device derailed a Russian freight train in a region bordering Ukraine for a second straight day Tuesday ahead of an expected counteroffensive by Kyiv. Russian territory and Crimea, annexed by Moscow in 2014, have been hit in recent days by a series of attacks. The last

Press freedom is under attack in every corner of the globe, with journalists continually harassed, jailed and killed, UN officials and media outlets warned Tuesday. Speaking ahead of World Press Freedom Day on Wednesday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a rallying cry for

Mahatma Gandhi's grandson Arun Gandhi died at Kolhapur in Maharashtra on Tuesday after a short disease, family sources said.  The funeral of the 89-year-old author and socio-political activist will be held at Kolhapur sometime in the afternoon, his child Tushar Gandhi said.

Khader Adnan, who was affiliated with the Palestinian militant Islamic Jihad group, died in an Israeli prison on Tuesday after an 87-day hunger strike, Israeli prison authorities said. Israel said Adnan "refused to undergo medical tests and receive medical treatment" and

A UN Security Council committee on Monday agreed to allow the Taliban administration's foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to travel to Pakistan from Afghanistan next week to meet with the foreign ministers of Pakistan and China, diplomats said. Muttaqi has long been subjected to a