19+ hour, 17+ min ago   (377+ words) SANTIAGO, Chile – A fire at a nursing home in Chile that had previously violated regulations has killed 16 elderly residents and left others hospitalized, authorities said Saturday. The blaze began on Friday night at the single-story care home in the Araucania…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (737+ words) OSLO, Norway — Norway bade its final farewell to Harald V on Wednesday as crowds lined the streets and foreign royals and leaders converged on Oslo for the funeral of the long-serving king, who was remembered as a popular monarch with…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (439+ words) MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has welcomed the new ambassadors of Norway and the Republic of Korea to the Philippines during separate ceremonies at Malacañan Palace. Marcos on Tuesday first received the credentials of His Excellency Kristian Netland, ambassador…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (309+ words) JAKARTA — Indonesia had planes flying again on Tuesday after a volcanic eruption forced the country’s major airports to close for days, with authorities saying that flights would resume gradually. The disruption, caused by the eruption of Anak Krakatau, halted nearly…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (735+ words) BELGRADE — Crowds began gathering in Belgrade on Monday morning for the funeral of convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic, as Brussels accused some in the country of “glorification” of a man convicted of genocide during the 1990s war in Bosnia. Mladic died…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (305+ words) NEW DELHI — A building collapse in the Indian capital New Delhi killed at least three people on Sunday, local media reports said, as authorities worked to rescue those trapped in the rubble. The building, housing mostly students, came crashing down…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (918+ words) The body of the former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, who died last week in The Hague, where he was serving a life sentence for genocide and other war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has arrived back in Serbia....

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (601+ words) SERIAN, Malaysia — Acrid smoke hung heavily over the Malaysian town of Serian, seeping into homes and cloaking roadside stalls, as residents navigated an air‑quality emergency fueled by transboundary haze from Indonesia’s raging fires. Malaysia declared a state of emergency…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (1124+ words) KATHMANDU — When devastating floods tore through the river basins lying at Rasuwa and Nuwakot last week, reaching the affected areas by air became a challenge of its own. The landscape had been altered by landslides and flooding, while there was…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (215+ words) globalnation.inquirer.net Indonesian haze blankets Bukidnon skies VALENCIA CITY, Bukidnon — Residents across Bukidnon have observed a thin haze blanketing the skies since September 1, particularly during sunrise, with authorities confirming Thursday that it was due to forest and land fires…...