Several US states were experiencing a 911 emergency services outage late on Wednesday, including the entire state of South Dakota and portions of Nevada, Texas, and Nebraska, according to local officials.It was not immediately clear what was causing the outages. Requests for comment from the Depar
The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to vote on Friday on a Palestinian request for full UN membership, said diplomats, a move that Israel's ally the United States is expected to block because it would effectively recognise a Palestinian state. The 15-member council is due to vote at 3
Russia's military death toll in Ukraine has now passed the 50,000 mark, the BBC confirmed in a report on Wednesday. In the second 12 months on the front line - as Moscow pushed its so-called meat grinder strategy - it found the body count was nearly 25 per cent higher than in the first year. BBC
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 hit southern Japan late on Wednesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The epicentre of the earthquake was the Bungo Channel, a strait separating the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku, the agency said, adding that no tsunami warning had b
When an Israeli airstrike destroyed his family's home in November, Zein Oroq was pinned under rubble. He was wounded but survived, while 17 members of his extended family died. But Zein, 13, would later suffer a cruel fate in Gaza, where Palestinians face severe shortages of medicine, food and wat
