Fire collapses building in Iran, over 200 people injured

Many firefighters are feared dead after a landmark high-rise building in Iran's capital, Tehran, caught fire and collapsed, state media report.Two hundred had battled the blaze in the 17-storey Plasco building for several hours…

Avalanche hits central Italy hotel, over 30 people missing

Rescuers say up to 30 people are missing after a hotel in central Italy was hit by an avalanche, apparently triggered by an earthquake, the BBC wrote.It added that rescuers battled overnight to reach the Rigopiano hotel, with the…

Water supplies return to Tripoli after a week of outage

The residents of Tripoli had to endure a full week of water outage amid the ongoing dilemmas of power outage and cooking gas shortage.On Thursday morning, sources from the capital said water has returned to some of the areas and…

Russia, Turkey conduct joint airstrikes on IS in Syria

Russia and Turkey join forces to launch airstrikes against militants in SyriaThe joint attack is the latest example of Moscow co-opting a key NATO member as it tries to, again, become a superpower. Russian led peace talks are due to…

2016 proves to have been warmest year since 1880

BBC - Temperature data for 2016 shows it is likely to have edged ahead of 2015 as the world's warmest year.Data from Nasa and the UK Met Office shows temperatures were about 0.07 degrees Celsius above the 2015 mark.Although…

Al-Serraj and Mogherini discuss more EU support for GNA

The Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Accord, Fayez Al-Serraj, met on Tuesday with the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, to discuss the security situation in…