Monday, 10 May 2021_As many as 25 people are reportedly either killed or injured after the bus carrying them in southern Afghanistan hits a roadside bomb, not long after several blasts kill scores of school children in the capital Kabul.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has hit out at the US for deciding to halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying the world may now better realize Tehran’s long experience of bearing the brunt of Washington’s bullying that kills people.
The coronavirus pandemic has now claimed the lives of 42,151 people and infected 858,875 others worldwide, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
Tehran 23 February _A 5.7-magnitude earthquake has hit the border region in northwest Iran, killing nine people in Turkey, and injuring dozens more in both countries.
TEHRAN, oct 31_A magnitude 6.5 earthquake rocked southern Philippines still reeling from two strong tremors this month, killing at least five people and causing previously damaged buildings and homes to collapse.
TEHRAN, oct 17_At least three people have been killed and dozens injured when a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the southern Philippines late on Wednesday, authorities said on Thursday.
TEHRAN, May 27-Rescue workers on Sunday searched for survivors in the rubble left by a tornado that devastated parts of a small community near Oklahoma City, killing two people, injuring more than two dozen and leaving hundreds homeless, officials have said.
TEHRAN, Jan 19 - Marzieh Hashemi, a US-born Iranian news anchor arrested five days ago during a visit to the US, is testifying behind closed doors to a grand jury in Washington, DC, a US federal judge said.
TEHRAN, December 12 -A gunman on a security watchlist killed three people and wounded a dozen others near the picturesque Christmas market in the historic French city of Strasbourg on Tuesday evening before fleeing.
TEHRAN, August 26 -At least 16 people died and several others were injured Saturday after a tourist bus veered off the road and crashed near the Iskar Gorge in Bulgaria.
TEHRAN, August 15 - The death toll from the worst floods in nearly a century in the Indian tourist state of Kerala rose to 43 on Wednesday as rising water stranded tens of thousands of people and forced the closure of one of its main airports.
TEHRAN, January 22 -A landslide in southwestern Colombia has killed 13 people on a small public bus in a rain-soaked mountainous area, authorities said Sunday.
TEHRAN, November 17 -Flood triggered by torrential rain hit 3 towns west of the Greek capital Athens early Wednesday, killing at least 15 and injuring nearly 40 others.
TEHRAN, November 6 - A gunman dressed in black tactical gear massacred at least 26 worshipers and wounded 20 others at a white-steepled church in Texas on Sunday, carrying out the latest in a series of mass shootings that have plagued the United States.
TEHRAN, October 18 -At least 71 people have been killed in a series of attacks by the Taliban in Paktia and Ghazni provinces, officials in Afghanistan say.
TEHRAN, October 17 - A Maltese investigative journalist who exposed the island nation's links to offshore tax havens through the leaked Panama Papers was killed Monday when a bomb exploded in her car.
A major fire broke out in El Salvador's Finance Ministry on Friday, killing at least one person, injuring 22, and prompting some inside to jump from the building before the blaze was extinguished, officials said.
TEHRAN, April 15, YJC - Afghanistan says the death toll from an attack, which saw the US military dropping the ‘mother of all bombs’ on eastern Nangarhar Province, has jumped to 94, with the figure expected to rise due to the devastating strength of the bomb.