The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality issued an air quality advisory Monday for the Portland metro area and a dozen additional counties across the state as smoke from wildfires burning in Oregon and Washington settled over the region. The advisor... See more
The confirmed death toll from last week's mass migrant crossing into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta held at 72 on the Spanish side as of Monday, while Morocco's Interior Ministry issued its own separate tally confirming 11 deaths on its side of th... See more
The Pacific island nation of Nauru has formally changed its name to the Republic of Naoero, President David Adeang announced this week, restoring the country's traditional Indigenous name more than a century after European colonizers altered it because th... See more
Both crew members aboard one of two Greek firefighting helicopters that collided in midair Sunday over a wildfire west of Athens were killed, Greece's fire service confirmed, while the crew of the second helicopter was found safe and taken to receive medi... See more
The confirmed death toll from Tuesday's magnitude 7.1 earthquake in southern Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture rose to 38 as of Sunday evening, prefectural officials said, as authorities confirmed the disaster's first death attributed specifically to the region... See more
