Forty-seven tigers, three lions and a panther have died in zoos in south Vietnam due to the H5N1 bird flu virus, state media reported. The
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North Korean defector crashes stolen bus in failed bid to return home
A North Korean defector living in South Korea has been detained after ramming a stolen bus into a barricade on a bridge near the heavily
Gang violence leaves Haiti facing ‘worst hunger emergency in the western hemisphere’
Half of all Haitians are struggling every day to find food as rampant gang violence and lawlessness are causing “the worst hunger emergency in the
Typhoon Krathon: two people killed and two missing in Taiwan
Two people have been killed, two are missing and more than 100 injured in bad weather from a typhoon approaching Taiwan, which grounded flights and
Buried US second world war bomb explodes at Japanese airport
A US bomb from the second world war that had been buried at a Japanese airport has exploded, causing a large crater in a taxiway
Justin Trudeau survives a second parliamentary confidence vote
Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, has survived a second parliamentary confidence motion in less than a week after opposition parties vowed to keep his minority
Many children feared dead after fire on school bus in Thailand
More than 23 people, including young children, are feared dead after their school coach caught fire during a field trip on the outskirts of the
Seoul crowd crush police sent to jail for deadly failings in Itaewon disaster
A South Korean court has given three police officers prison sentences over their handling of a 2022 Halloween crush in a Seoul nightlife district that
Parrots overwhelm Argentinian town with screeching, poo and power outages
The town of Hilario Ascasubi near Argentina’s eastern Atlantic coast has a parrot problem. Thousands of the green, yellow and red birds have invaded, driven
‘Do they take us for fools?’: Argentina vice-president lambasts Falklands pact
Argentina’s vice-president has lambasted a new UK-Argentina Falkland Islands agreement, saying her nation had been offered “crumbs”. The pact, announced last week, includes resuming flights