HERAT: A series of large explosions at a gas terminal on the edge of the western Afghan city of Herat late on Monday killed 11 children and an adult living in a camp for people displaced by war. The explosions were felt across Afghanistan’s third largest city and images showed the subsequent fire

MANILA: Typhoon Goni killed at least 26 people in landslides and floods in the Philippines, officials said on Monday, as the storm bore down on Japan. Rescue teams clawed away at a mountainside near the remote mining town of Mankayan in the country's north, after recovering the bodies of 13 miner

SAN SALVADOR: At least 14 inmates were killed in an El Salvador jail on Saturday when violence erupted between two factions of a notorious gang, an official said. The killings at Quezaltepeque prison, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of the capital San Salvador, were linked to an internal dis

ATLANTA, Georgia: A terrifying moment of a lightning bolt striking a Delta plane on the runway at Atlanta Hartsfield Airport has been captured by a flier and is available on YouTube. The footage was filmed by Jack Perkins, a passenger on a separate plane that was one among many grounded because of

KARACHI: Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday held a groundbreaking ceremony for two controversial Chinese nuclear plants near the coastal city of Karachi which are set to add 1,100 megawatts to the energy-starved country’s electric grid. The plants, which are located just 20 miles fro

TWISP, Wash. (AP) — Three U.S. Forest Service firefighters died after their vehicle crashed as they battled a blaze Wednesday in north-Central Washington, where raging wildfires were advancing on area towns, authorities said. Four other firefighters were injured. The vehicle was likely caught by

JAKARTA: Indonesia sank 34 impounded foreign boats Tuesday, the government said, the latest bid to deter vessels from illegally fishing in the world’s biggest archipelago nation. The empty boats from Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia were sunk as part of events to celebrate 70 years s

QUITO, Ecuador: Ecuadorean authorities said Monday that up to 325,000 people live in areas that could be threatened by fast-moving mud and rock flows if there is a major eruption of the Cotopaxi volcano. Top disaster official Maria del Pilar Cornejo briefed reporters as bad weather scrapped a pla

CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday approved an anti-terrorism law that sets up special courts and provides protections to its enforcers in the face of a two-year-long insurgency that aims to topple his government. The law also details sentences for various terrorism crimes r

The home minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province was assassinated when a suicide bomber targeted his farmhouse on Sunday, killing 12 people and injuring more than 20 others. Home minister Shuja Khanzada was holding a ‘jirga’ at his farmhouse at Shadi Khan in Attock district, 100 km from Islamabad,

The wreckage of an Indonesian plane which went missing with 54 people on board has been found in the remote western Papua region, officials say. The Trigana Air flight lost contact at 14:55 local time (05:55 GMT) on Sunday as it flew from the provincial capital, Jayapura, to the town of Oksibil.

TOKYO: Japan warned on Saturday that a volcano 50 km (31 miles) from a just-restarted nuclear reactor is showing signs of increased activity, and said nearby residents should prepare to evacuate. Sakurajima, a mountain on the southern island of Kyushu, is one of Japan's most active volcanoes and

blasts in a northern Chinese port city has risen to 85, officials said Saturday, as firefighters battled to finally extinguish the days-long blaze at the devastated industrial site. The explosions in Tianjin days earlier -- starkly depicted in images of a giant fireball and a vast radius of destr

Two huge explosions tore through an industrial area where toxic chemicals and gas were stored in the northeast Chinese port city of Tianjin, killing at least 50 people, including at least a dozen fire fighters, officials and state media said on Thursday. At least 700 people were injured, more tha

(CNN)For the first time, the United States launched manned airstrikes from a base in Turkey against ISIS forces in Syria, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The attacks from Incirlik Air Base are part of an agreement reached last month between NATO allies Turkey and the United States. The Unit

ANKARA: US warplanes on Wednesday carried out their first air strikes on Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria after taking off from a Turkish base, kicking off a key new phase in the campaign against the jihadists. A US drone had last week executed a single lethal air strike against an IS target i

TOKYO — Seven people were injured when a U.S. Army helicopter crashed on a ship during a training mission off Japan's southern island of Okinawa on Wednesday, the U.S. military in Japan said. The UH-60 was damaged when it made a "hard deck landing" on the USNS Red Cloud, about 20 miles east of Ok

TOKYO: Japan will Tuesday begin restarting its nuclear power program, officials said, after a two-year shutdown sparked by public fears following the Fukushima crisis. The restart comes more than four years after a quake-sparked tsunami triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima plant, prompting the shut