Tourist Hafiz Abdul Halim, 42, who was with his wife, said they became fearful when they realised that there was a fire in the building. “We obviously panicked when we …
She said her attempts to obtain financial aid from some NGOs and charities were denied because, like all asylum seekers in the city, she does not have a Hong Kong …
“It all burned, I don’t have money in my pocket,” Nguyen, who moved to Poland from Vietnam 18 years ago, said on Wednesday outside the burnt structure. He estimated his …
Greece on Sunday raised its wildfire alert level to “high risk” after dozens of blazes broke out, the civil protection ministry said. On Saturday, “71 fires were declared in agricultural …
Firefighters battling the largest wildfire in Texas history face increasingly difficult weather conditions on Saturday. The Smokehouse Creek Fire that began on Monday has killed at least two people, left …
At least 43 people were killed and dozens injured after a fire blazed through a seven-storey building in an upscale neighbourhood in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka late Thursday, health …
Australia PM Anthony Albanese pledges ‘whatever support’ needed as wildfires destroy homes Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pledged on Sunday to provide whatever support was needed to assist Victoria state …
Chilean firefighters were battling rapidly expanding wildfires on Saturday that officials fear have claimed around 10 lives and are threatening hundreds of homes, prompting the president to declare a state …
Forest fires have destroyed more than 17,000 hectares in Colombia since November, the authorities said, as the country faces its hottest January in decades. More than 340 fires have been …
At least nine people were killed and many more injured in a fire that broke out in a multistorey shopping centre in Pakistan’s biggest city of Karachi on Saturday, officials …