The victims include at least 27 children and teenagers, while more than 120 are still missing, officials say. Repeated downpours have hampered the work of emergency teams, with authorities saying it is unlikely anyone will be found alive, BCC reported. About 900 people are being housed in schools and shelters. Workers are digging with spades […]

TEHRAN, Feb. 10 (MNA) – Over 18 tons of narcotics have been seized in Shiraz, Fars province, southern Iran by Police forces.

“Our updated report indicates that 35 people were injured, 14 lost their lives and one remains missing,” the UNGRD (National Unit for Disaster Risk Management) said on Twitter. The early morning landslide in Dosquebredas followed torrential rain in the surrounding coffee-growing province of Risalda, Al-Jazeera reported. Rescue teams were searching the mud for survivors. Authorities […]

“I am following with great sadness the damage caused by heavy rains in (São Paulo),” João Doria, current Governor of São Paulo, wrote on Twitter in a post with photos taken during a flight over the affected region, Daily Sabah reported. “My condolences to the families and friends of the 18 people killed,” Doria added. […]

In an intelligence operation on Monday, the maritime guards of Hormozgan Province apprehended an armed drug trafficking team in the Persian Gulf, Mojtaba Ghahremani said, adding that three smugglers were also arrested. According to him, the drug traffickers intended to transport a large consignment of narcotics to the coastal areas of Hormozgan province and then distribute the drugs throughout the country, […]

With blizzard warnings in effect, cities like New York and Boston bore the brunt of the storm Saturday morning, but the far-reaching system also hit the Mid-Atlantic. Freeze alerts were raised as far south as Florida, where the National Weather Service (NWS) warned of “scattered to isolated falling iguanas from trees” as plunging temperatures temporarily […]

According to Iran’s Seismological Center affiliated with the Institute of Geophysics of Tehran University, the 3.3 magnitude earthquake occurred at 12:35 p.m. local time on Tuesday near the cities of Nowdan and Kazerun in Fars province at a depth of 13 kilometers. The epicenter of the quake was located at 51.748 degrees longitude and 29.729 degrees latitude. No casualties or damages have been reported so far. MP/5414279

An armed drug-trafficking band that was trying to transfer a drug consignment from Saravan county to central provinces of the country was identified by anti-narcotics police forces of Sistan and Baluchistan province, Brigadier General Ahmad Taheri said. Taheri noted that during an intelligence operation 1 smuggler was arrested and 1.1 tons of narcotics including 972 kg of opium and 130 kg of hashish seized by […]

Media have cited Indonesia’s meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency as saying that a 6.7-magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia with strong tremors felt in the country’s capital Jakarta on Friday. According to the Chinese Xinhua news agency, the US Geological Survey said that an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 jolted 88 km SW of Labuan, Indonesia at […]

Brigadier General Gholamreza Jafari, police commander-in-chief of southern Hormozgan province said on Wednesday, Minab County police forces could identify the key members of a drug trafficking group in the county that were trying to transfer a heavy shipment of narcotics laden in a truck heading towards the road between Minab-Bandar Abbas embarked on from the eastern province. The […]

“I confirm the fact that [the fire broke out] at the [Antipinsky oil] refinery,” the press service noted according to TASS. Furthermore, a source in the regional emergency services told TASS that no casualties had been reported as a result of the accident. The Antipinsky Refinery, located in the Tyumen Region, is the largest independent […]

“So far, we have counted four deaths as a result of the forces’ use of live bullets,” the ministry said on its Facebook account, Xinhua reported. Earlier, the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors (CCSD), a non-governmental organization, said three people were killed “in the processions in Omdurman by the bullets from the coup forces and […]