The icy weather first hit Wednesday. The statement said rescue services have been called out to deal with traffic accidents, people falling in the snow and ice, flooding and other emergencies
There is not a “snowball’s chance in hell” that Canada will merge with the United States, outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday, while his foreign minister added the country will “never back down” from threats by Donald Trump.
Ukraine launched an overnight strike deep inside Russia that set fire to an oil depot in the city of Engels that serves an air base for Russian nuclear bomber planes, the Ukrainian military said yesterday.
Russia said yesterday it had expelled more than 80,000 migrants in 2024, nearly twice as many as in 2023, as the country toughens migration policies after last year’s Crocus City Hall terror attack.
Russia said yesterday that Ukraine had launched a counter-attack in the Kursk region, an area of western Russia from which Russian troops have been trying to eject Ukrainian forces for the past five months.
Gunmen ambushed a Pakistan convoy travelling to bring aid to a region besieged by sectarian fighting yesterday, local government said, wounding several officials despite a ceasefire announced three days ago.
Russia launched a barrage of drones in an overnight attack on Ukraine, killing two civilians and injuring four others in the Kyiv region, the military and regional officials said yesterday.
British researchers have unearthed some 200 dinosaur footprints dating back 166 million years in a find believed to be biggest in the UK.
The 2024 northern summer saw the highest global temperatures on record, beating 2023’s high and making this year likely Earth’s hottest ever recorded, the EU’s climate monitor said yesterday.
At least 12 migrants died yesterday after their boat capsized on its way across the Channel to Britain, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said, adding that rescue operations were underway to find people still missing.
Children under the age of two should be kept away from digital media and television completely, the country's Public Health Agency said
Russia yesterday said that it had thwarted a “massive” Ukrainian drone attack by downing 158 drones across 15 regions, including two over the capital Moscow.
Voters in two former East German states yesterday began casting ballots in elections expected to deal a blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government and deliver big gains for the far-right AfD.
The UN has published a draft on climate financing due to be presented at the COP29 in November, laying out the conflicting positions from which the main country blocs will try to clinch the next climate deal.
Record wildfires in 2023 bumped Canada into the top four greenhouse gas-emitting countries in the world that year, according to a study Wednesday that also cast doubt on its forests’ future ability to capture and store significant amounts of CO2.
Russian bombardments on the eastern Ukraine region of Donetsk killed six people yesterday, the governor of the region said, as Moscow announced it had taken another village in the area.
Pavel Durov, the founder and chief of Telegram, was to appear in a French court Wednesday to face possible charges of failing to curb extremist and illegal content on the popular messaging app after his arrest at the weekend.
Relations between Moscow and Paris have reached a nadir following the arrest of Russian-born Telegram boss Pavel Durov, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday, after the tech billionaire’s detention was extended until Wednesday.
