TEHRAN, December 06 - The number of people killed or wounded by landmines in Colombia more than tripled in 2018 to 180, a landmine monitoring group said on Wednesday, as militants occupying territory abandoned by demobilized leftist rebels have expanded their use of the weaponry.
TEHRAN, December 02 - A magnitude 6.5 earthquake that struck off the coast of Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands caused no damage and created no threat of a tsunami, Indonesian authorities said.
TEHRAN, November 22 - Armed men killed eight people on Thursday in a late night attack on French drilling company Foraco's water well site in southeastern Niger, Foraco said.
TEHRAN, November 13 - The inferno that ravaged the wooded town of Paradise in northern California became the deadliest wildfire in the state’s modern history on Monday when officials said they had discovered the remains of 13 more people, bringing the death toll to 42.
TEHRAN, November 05 - Floods killed 12 people on the island of Sicily, including nine members of a single family, pushing Italy's week-long storm toll beyond 30, rescuers said Sunday.
TEHRAN, November 04 - At least 14 civilians were killed Saturday in US-led coalition air strikes on the Islamic State group's last holdout in eastern Syria, a monitor said.
TEHRAN, October 31 - A local official says one person has been killed and three injured after a bomb went off at the entrance of the local branch of Russia's main intelligence agency.
TEHRAN, October 31 - Rescuers have pulled out four survivors and three bodies but several more were missing after a massive landslide set off by a typhoon crashed down on two government buildings in a northern Philippine mountain province, officials said Wednesday.
TEHRAN, October 30 - Raging wildfires have killed seven people including a baby and a pregnant woman in a farming settlement along South Africa's famed Garden Route, disaster management services said Monday.
TEHRAN, October 26 - A powerful quake of magnitude at least 6.4 struck off western Greece early on Friday, earthquake monitors said, causing slight damage but no casualties in a tremor felt as far away as Libya.
TEHRAN, October 23 - An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck Taiwan, the United States Geological Survey said on Tuesday, and witnesses said it set buildings shaking in the capital Taipei.
TEHRAN, October 22 - Taiwan's president pushed for a swift investigation Monday after an express train derailed on a coastal tourist route, killing 18 people in the island's worst rail accident for 27 years.
TEHRAN, October 20 - Provincial officials said two attacks in northern Afghanistan have wounded two women and frightened voters going to mark their ballots in the country's first parliamentary elections since 2010.
TEHRAN, October 15 - Authorities in southwest France say at least five people have been killed in violent storms and floods that saw the equivalent of several months of rainfall in the space of hours.
TEHRAN, October 12 - At least 31 people were killed when a floodwaters triggered by a landslide swept debris through a town in eastern Uganda, destroying homes and burying livestock, a government official said on Friday.