(LONDON) -- United Nations special envoy to Sudan, Volker Perthes, has warned the conflict risks "morphing into a full-blown civil war" as fighting intensifies. Announcing his resignation in a final speech to the UN Security Council, Perthes warned that violence in the North-east African nation has "worsened dramatically," leaving a…
(LONDON) -- A luxury cruise ship carrying 206 people has been pulled free days after it got stuck off the coast of Greenland, authorities said. The Joint Arctic Command, which is part of Denmark’s defense forces, announced in a social media post on Thursday that the ship, named the Ocean…
(LONDON) -- Tensions are rising quickly in Lampedusa -- a small Italian island located off the coast of Sicily -- after local officials said around 6,700 migrants arrived this week, with many asking to be relocated to other European Union countries. The island, which has been a destination for migrants…
(MARAKECH, Morocco) -- The death toll has continued to climb in the wake of the rare and powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Morocco Friday night. More than 2,900 people are confirmed dead. The quake, Morocco's strongest in more than a century, hit the country's High Atlas mountain range near Marrakech.…
(LONDON) -- American caver Mark Dickey said he could tell he was "pretty close to fading" after he fell ill while on an expedition to map a 4,186-foot-deep cave system in southern Turkey. "There's not that much that you tell yourself. You kind of just survive," Dickey recalled during an…
(NEW YORK) -- Boreal forests in regions all over the world have been experiencing the worst wildfires in recorded history in 2023, according to new research. Record-breaking wildfires have been especially scorching boreal forests across the Northern Hemisphere this year, according to a report released Wednesday by Copernicus, the European…
(LONDON) -- The death toll from devastating floods in eastern Libya has reached 5,300, a local health official said Wednesday. The number of deaths is expected to continue rising as search and rescue teams recover more bodies in what the United Nations has described as a "calamity of epic proportions." More…
(FIGUEIROPÓLIS, Brazil) -- A convicted murderer who had eluded capture since escaping from a Pennsylvania prison nearly two weeks ago is accused of committing a separate slaying in his home country of Brazil in 2017. Danelo Cavalcante, 34, allegedly shot his friend Valter Junior Moreira dos Reis five times in the remote…
(NEW YORK) -- North Korea launched a possible ballistic missile on Wednesday, Japan's Ministry of Defense said in a tweet. The missile launch comes as North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Russia for a high-stakes meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. A short while after the initial news…
(NEW YORK) -- North Korea's Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin met for about five hours on Wednesday, touring a space base in Russia's Far East and signaling a unified front against the West. "I am so grateful you are paying such attention to our visit to Russia,"…
