UN chief Antonio Guterres warned nations Monday that he fears the likelihood of further escalation in the Russia-Ukraine conflict means the world is heading towards a "wider war.". "I fear the world is not sleepwalking into a wider war.
A combination of factors made the powerful earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria early Monday particularly deadly, including its timing, location, relatively quiet fault line and the weak construction of the collapsed buildings, experts said.. That could partly be due to the fact that the fault line on which the earthquake struck has been relatively quiet recently.
Tulin Akkaya had just started to gather her thoughts after being woken by the biggest earthquake to strike Turkey in nearly a century when a second massive jolt sent her scrambling for safety on the street.. It was certain to grow and Akkaya was trying to piece together the remains of her life when a second jolt shook her house and sent her rushing out of her apartment.
International offers to help Turkey and Syria with rescue efforts poured in on Monday after a massive earthquake killed more than 1,200 people and wreaked devastation.. - Britain - "The UK stands ready to help in whatever way we can," British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tweeted, saying his thoughts were with the people of Turkey and Syria.
Standing near the dried river bed that marks Ghana’s northern border, Alima can see her hamlet, lying in Burkina Faso less than two kilometres (1.2 miles) away. . But in more rural areas along the more open border, Burkinabe displaced families easily cross the dry river bed on foot back into Burkina to tend their farms during the day.
The boards of French automaker Renault and Japanese partner Nissan have approved a major overhaul of their rocky 24-year alliance following months of negotiations, the companies said on Monday.. The Renault board approved the deal on Sunday while Nissan signed off on it on Monday, a week after the agreement was announced.
Investors dumped more Adani stock on Monday as India's opposition staged protests calling for a full enquiry into allegations of major accounting fraud at the country's biggest conglomerate.. The main opposition Congress party, which has called for a "serious investigation" by the central bank and regulator, on Monday staged protests including in New Delhi and Mumbai.
The body of Pakistan's exiled former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who became a key US ally during the "war on terror", is expected to be repatriated on Monday.. Senior officials who asked not to be named said his body would be repatriated on Monday, with a burial expected later in the day.
US navy personnel worked to recover on Sunday the debris of a suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down after it floated over North America for days.. - The Pentagon said on Friday a second Chinese spy balloon had been seen across Latin America.
Six months after being stabbed, British author Salman Rushdie on Tuesday publishes his new novel "Victory City", an "epic tale" of a 14th-century woman who defies a patriarchal world to rule a city. . - A 'triumph' - US author Colum McCann wrote in The New York Times that his friend Rushdie was saying "something quite profound" in Victory City.
