0646 GMT March 05, 2021
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government said on Monday it had captured another town in the northern Tigray region after nearly two weeks of fighting in a conflict already spilling into Eritrea and destabilizing the wider Horn of Africa.
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The COVID-19 pandemic may have irreversibly changed the world as we know it, but it seems there are some things that can still be counted on.
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The Canadian town Asbestos has voted to rename itself "Val-des-Sources", the mayor announced in a hope to shed its association with the deadly mineral.
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By Dunya Mikhail*
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US warplanes again bombed a town in Syria's eastern Deir ez-Zor Province with internationally-banned white phosphorus munitions, killing several people, the official SANA news agency said.
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US warplanes again bombed a town in Syria's eastern Deir ez-Zor Province with internationally-banned white phosphorus munitions, killing several people, the official SANA news agency said.
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Until this month, nobody would have imagined that the bucolic Lapland town of Jokkmokk could be home to one of the world’s busiest fire brigades.
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Known as the ‘ghost town’, Kayaköy Village in Muğla Province in Turkey hosts tourists who want to experience camel tours.
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Australian police found seven dead people on Friday, including four children, in a rural town in the Margaret River region, and said guns were involved in the killings.
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Saudi Arabia has reportedly laid waste to at least 320 houses in an eastern Shia-majority town, which it has placed under siege for about three months.
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Somalia's Al-Shabaab terrorist group has taken control of El Buur, a town in the Horn of Africa's semiautonomous region of Galmudug, after Ethiopian forces left, a government official said.
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The worst forest fire in Chile’s recent history has ravaged an entire town, destroying buildings, farms and livestock.
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Leaders of a town with the highest rate of sex crimes against children in the UK referred fewer than a third of reports of child sexual exploitation made last year, it has emerged.
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China has lashed out at the United States, Japan and Australia for issuing a joint statement on the South China Sea, saying it was only “fanning the flames” of regional tensions.
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Two bomb attacks in the northern Syrian town of Qamishli have killed at least 22 people, according to the Syrian state TV.
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