A sixth person has died following devastating wildfires in northern California, which saw tens of thousands of people flee their homes. The latest death in the city of Redding comes despite officials saying they were “optimistic” about the fires slowing down and that they were now “gaining ground”. Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko said a […]

The publisher of the New York Times has urged President Donald Trump not to continue labelling reporters “enemies of the people”, saying it could “lead to violence” against the media. AG Sulzberger was reporting a meeting with Mr Trump at the White House. The meeting was intended to be off-the-record but Mr Sulzberger said Mr […]

A raging wildfire in northern California has killed two firefighters and forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes. The fires in Shasta county are being sucked up by strong winds to form “fire tornados” that are uprooting trees and overturning cars, fire officials say. The blazes, known as the Carr fire, have […]

Climate change resulting from human activities made the current Europe-wide heatwave more than twice as likely to occur, say scientists Researchers compared the current high temperatures with historical records from seven weather stations, in different parts of Europe. Their preliminary report found that the “signal of climate change is unambiguous,” in this summer’s heat. They […]

The US and EU have agreed to avoid an all-out trade war and work to lower tariffs, in talks that US President Donald Trump hailed as “a very strong understanding”. He and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker announced a “new phase” in EU-US relations, after more than two hours of talks at the White House. […]

Pakistan has been hit by violence on the day of its general elections – with at least 31 dead in the worst attack. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a polling station in the city of Quetta. The Islamic State group said it had carried out the attack. Elsewhere, minor blasts and clashes left […]

US President Donald Trump has traded military threats and counter-threats with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in an exchange alarmingly similar to the fiery war of words with Kim Jong-un last year. These threats of military force are strategic rather than merely random outbursts by an unpredictable and thin-skinned President. We have seen Mr Trump’s game […]

Hundreds of people are missing and an unknown number dead after a dam under construction collapsed in south-east Laos, state media reported. The collapse at the hydroelectric dam in Attapeu province late on Monday sent flash floods through six villages, Lao News Agency said. More than 6,600 people have been made homeless, it added. Pictures […]

AMMAN  – Russian and Syrian jets stepped up their bombing of an Islamic State bastion along the Jordan-Israel border in southwestern Syria, as the militants pushed into areas abandoned by other rebel groups, diplomatic and opposition sources said. Islamic State-affiliated forces entrenched in the Yarmouk Basin, which borders the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and Jordan, also […]

A 10-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman were fatally injured after a gunman opened fire on a busy avenue in Canada’s largest city, police say. Thirteen other people, ranging in age between 10 and 59, were injured in the attack in the Greektown district of Toronto, police chief Mark Saunders told reporters. The suspect, 29, […]